The Neurotechnology Wave (2010-2060)

Neurotechnology is also being used as a form of intellectual theft. With the ability to enter the mind and access thoughts, there is absolutely no reason to doubt that the contents of a mind - particularly those pertaining to original ideas - will not, nor are not already, be scooped out for the purposes of another's self-aggrandisement.
My paper ON THE NEED FOR NEW CRITERIA IN THE LIGHT OF MIND INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY published on the above webste for the Journal of Psycho-Social Studies refers to this "mind-enhancemen" by fraudulent
misappropriation, while seeking to voice the outrage of victims of mind-invasive technology, who are also diagnosed as psychotic by the empowered of society when they protest. And to the dangers of fascist control.

Carole, Before technology advances to the point where people will be able to read each other's thoughts I think people will be able to program each other by, say, injecting viruses that would make a person much more compliant and willing to spill all their thoughts.

However, in order to want to read a person's mind to steal creative ideas it would first be necessary to know that some person is walking around with commercially useful creative ideas. Most people who have creative ideas tend to tell others and to write them up in order to start organizing an business effort to apply them. So there seem easier ways access such ideas. Also, a lot of creative ideas do not exist until the moment they are produced in some readable form. Someone sitting there writing a song writes it down as part of the act of writing.

Then there is the bigger problem of determining whether someone even has a creative idea worth stealing. Many ideas are scoffed at until they become successful.

The trick is in identifying the idea scoffed as being viable or wishful thinking. Without knowing how the brain does what it does, all hopeful futurist predictions are wishful thinking.

Lee: This is the whole point of the neurotechnology wave. As biochips and brain imaging become less expensive and more specific in their capability down to the nano-scale level, we'll learn a tremendous amount about the brain in the coming decades. I am not saying that we will be able to "upload and download" thoughts, but instead that we are on the cusp of developing powerful tools that influence in specific ways different types of mental states. This is not a digital process (ie we know, or we don't know--on or off) it's an evolutionary one where we obtain more information over time with a few punctuated leaps in analysis capabilities. Wishful thinking it is not.

Zack: here's what i did with the diagram i borrowed from you... my two cents:
"AQAL Overview of the Sixth Wave (2010-and beyond)"
http://coolmel.typepad.com/project_trinity/2003/11/aqal_overview_o.html

me shut up now.

Zach;
Unless one connects to the right thing, one will never connect, no matter how well the intentions. Brain function is fluid and distributed as well as dynamic. Capturing it is useless without capturing the entire focus of the sense, which is not possible without filtering the other senses sharing the same process pathway. What you are saying it akin to hooking up a computer to a toaster to read the time needed to produce toast. It is not recorded in the manner in which monitoring can acquire.

Wishful thinking it is not.

It took me quite a while to get to the point that I could agree with Zack Lynch.

Fundamentally, a quantum computer could be seeded with as much recorded information from a person that it could and would generate a virtual imitational clone of an individual. In principle this could be transferred over to a robotic device and the person would continue living virtually in a real world.

Remember this is a copy of the person and would be like a twin going off in its own direction.

With current technology one's memory may be storable in useable form for about $100,000 in a holographic quantum interference computer as an experiment.

Ron Blue
http://www.enter.net/~ronblue/index2.htm

mr. kent has not been to school or otherwise for the info he writes in his papers. he speculates and wants all to believe what HE says. the fact of the matter is he is a dead beat father who has high ideals and is going nowhere for a 51 year old man without common sense and a line of bull. one day they will catch up to him and know him for what he really is.

Zach: if you would like more info on mr. lee kent hempfling please contact me. i have known this man for more than 30 years and have followed some of his writings. i can not believe what he writes.