Brain-computer hookup equals mainstream news
The fatal flaw in the human-computer interface
by Jon Rappoport
There is a great deal of "utopian research" going on in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) merging with the brain.
Exuberant cheerleaders like Ray Kurzweil are quite confident
we are approaching a moment when a computer will exhibit all the power
of the human brain.
The definition of "power" in this context is fuzzy. But
Kurzweil and others are sure we're about to uncover the "algorithm" that
underlies all brain activity.
They couldn't be more wrong. Neuroscience has barely
scratched the surface of understanding how the brain operates. Cracking
the code is not on the horizon.
Most importantly: how would a brain-computer interface work?
Hook up your brain to a super-computer, and how does your brain absorb
the computer's data, and how does it make the data known to YOU, the
user?
We aren't talking about a quiz show where you ask a computer a
question and it spits out an answer. And we aren't talking about crude
signals to the brain that can provoke physical reactions. This is about
the transmission of detailed information.
There is another problem, even assuming a computer could magically fill your consciousness with usable data.
A human-computer interface, endowed with access to a hundred
galaxies of stored data, would run up against the problem of vast
chronic misinformation in those cosmic warehouses.
This is not something that can be deleted with a program or a committee tasked with making corrective changes.
For example, and here is just one area, medical science is
rife with fraud, at many levels, as I've demonstrated over and over
again for the past 30 years. AI wouldn't even know where or how to begin
analyzing this problem, because...who would set the parameters of such
an investigation? Who would even believe such an investigation is
necessary?
There is an inherent self-limiting function in AI. It uses,
accesses, collates, and calculates with, false information. Not just
here and there or now and then, but on a continuous basis.
Think about all the entrenched institutions and monopolies in
our society. Each one of them proliferates false information in
cascades.
No machine can correct that. Indeed, AI machines are victims
to it. They in turn emanate more falsities based on the information they
are utilizing.
Each and every false datum generates a wider and wider stream
of lies, and the streams, becoming rivers, overlap and produce oceans
of contaminated information.
The oceans of false information that circulate in this
world---and are loaded into the super-computer---would be yours. The
best model I can think of for THAT is mainstream news.
Yes, you'll have access to instantaneous floods of "mainstream news" info. Congratulations.
"Recognized authorities" would be feeding you data, by way of
their vaunted super-computer. This is exactly where the human-AI
interface is heading, like a team of horses being driven toward the edge
of a cliff above an ocean.
The human-AI connection would be fatally compromised. In
journalistic terms, your brain would AUTOMATICALLY be subjected to
untold numbers of "mainstream reporters obeying the parameters laid down
by their editors and corporate owners."
The result? Absurdly limited context, deception, fatuous presumption of authority.
If, instead, you want to look for a program that would
discount such a presumption and would reject institutional secrecy, a
program that would undertake a relentless investigation of the quality
of data, there is a potential candidate.
It's called a human being.
And it's not a program.
It's called you.
There is nothing like it.
I'm not writing to inform a super-computer.
I'm writing to individuals, whose consciousness is their own and surpasses what any computer can do by light years.
Super-computers of the future will be nothing more than the super-evening-news.
"Hello, Mr. Smith. I'm your brain. I just received three tons
of data from 'the evening network news'...uh, I mean the wonderful
super-computer of all-truth and all-knowing that is leading us into a
paradise of wisdom. I will commence transmitting now. Your IQ will rise
by twenty points in the next two minutes...excuse me, this just in: a
pandemic is breaking out in the UK, Canada, Australia, and the US. There
are already six cases. The virus is called X-23-6. The World Health
Organization has a vaccine available. See your doctor as soon as
possible, or visit a pharmacy in your area. Shots are free."
I can't wait.
Sixteen trillion dollars went into the research project to create a brain-computer interface, and this is the result.
It's sublime, I tell you. Sublime.
HELLO, CITIZEN. WE'RE YOUR LEADERS. ALL THE LIES AND
HALF-TRUTHS AND FAKE NEWS WE'VE BEEN FEEDING YOU THROUGH YOUR SCREENS
ALL THESE YEARS? NOW WE'RE SHOVELING IT INTO YOU DIRECTLY THROUGH YOUR
BRAIN. WE USED TO CALL IT OPERANT CONDITIONING AND MIND CONTROL AND
HUMAN PROGRAMMING. NOW WE CALL IT COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS. DON'T WORRY, BE
HAPPY. THE PROCESS IS AUTOMATIC. YOU WON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING, SO YOU
WON'T BE DISTURBED. YOU WON'T KNOW THERE IS ANOTHER REALITY. THEREFORE,
WHY WOULD YOU CARE? IT TURNS OUT THAT IGNORANCE IS ACTUALLY BLISS. THIS
IS ACTUALLY THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS.
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