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    Mindstream : How will it feel to be connected to all other people telepathically via devices like Neuralink?

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    1. Lesterpaintstheworld on

      🧠💭🚀 Hey future-thinkers! 👋 What will happen when we’ll be able to share thoughts as easily as we share comments?

      I’ve been diving deep into the idea of “Mindstreaming” – basically, a fancy way of saying “brain-to-brain group chat” enabled by tech like Neuralink. But before I go full nerd in my upcoming talk, I want to hear what you all think.

      So, hit me with your thoughts on these mind-bending questions:

      1. How would your relationships change if you could literally share your feelings?

      2. Privacy: overrated concept of the past, or last bastion of individuality?

      3. Are we heading towards a hive mind, and is that awesome or terrifying?

      4. Will we still need words when we can beam concepts directly?

      5. What’s the coolest thing you’d do with a brain-link to your bestie?

      6. How would this tech revolutionize stuff like learning, mental health, or brainstorming sessions?

      Bonus round: What’s the weirdest or most unexpected consequence you can imagine from this tech?

      I’m stoked to hear your ideas, concerns, or even your wildest speculations. Let’s get weird and visionary – after all, that’s what this sub is all about, right?

    2. BeowulfsGhost on

      Distinctly unpleasant would be my first guess. Maybe it would be different if you grew up with it and didn’t know the difference.

    3. Significant_Stick213 on

      Nirvana: Lithium

      I’m so happy, ’cause today I found my friends
      They’re in my head
      I’m so ugly, that’s okay, ’cause so are you
      Broke our mirrors
      Sunday mornin’ is every day for all I care
      And I’m not scared
      Light my candles in a daze ’cause I’ve found God

    4. Sweet_Concept2211 on

      How would it feel?

      It would feel like being trapped in a Youtube comment thread.

      Unfiltered thoughts are not generally worthwhile.

    5. Crazyboreddeveloper on

      It’ll feel like being a DJ and having your listeners talk to you through the speakers in their radio.

      Nuralink is a listener. It doesn’t provide input.

    7. Monchi83 on

      Only if everyone is forced to wear them and I can mute people I don’t like maybe even visually make them disappear lol

    8. FomalhautCalliclea on

      If i had to take a wild guess, something in between schizophrenia and strong epileptic hallucinations (i’m familiar with the latter).

      A flow of things directly into your consciousness stream that you do not control and seem to come from another will and entity can range from the quite mesmerizing to the unadulterated sheer horror.

      If i had the choice before to have that experience imposed to me, i would have passed the coin toss, in all honesty.

      But then again, i made this experience part of me consusbtantially, i “grokked” it as the cool Silicon Valley kids say nowadays. I wouldn’t be nor feel me without this past experience.

      The question is, would someone that gets this thing imposed to them interiorize it so much that, notwithstanding the unpleasantness, they feel it as part of their very selves?

    9. maureenmcq on

      There’s some evidence that if you and I were connected, we would not feel like we were reading each other’s thoughts, we would feel like we were thinking the other person’s thoughts.

      So, u/Lesterpaintstheworld and I each have device implanted and we ‘link up’. What we feel like linked up is one consciousness with two bodies. We are now u/LesterMaureen and we have TWO BRAINS WORTH OF NEUROPROCESSING BUT WE FEEL LIKE ONE INDIVIDUAL. which means, I guess, that one of the bodies could wash dishes while we’re doing advanced calculus.

      Then later, we break the link and become our separate selves with the memory of our joined state. Imagine Seal Team Six as a single consciousness deploying bodies like the fingers of a hand.

    10. Maxo_My_Friend on

      Maybe something like how it felt yesterday sitting for an hour at the DMV behind a lady who was scrolling through TikTok at way too high a volume.

    11. Farvag2024 on

      Like why?

      I spend an hour a day blocking/muting stupid crazy bigot zealots from my social feed.

      My goal is to interact with *fewer* people, not *more* idiots.