Today’s Daily Post was “A mad scientist friend offers you a chip that would allow you to know what the people you’re talking to are thinking. The catch: you can’t turn it off. Do you accept the chip?” Coincidentally, I was watching a TED talk this morning on how close to mind reading chips we are. The synchronicity was too strong not to share it.
As for whether I would take the chip?
I probably would. Some studies have shown people have a tendency to impute malice where there is only accident. While I try to avoid assumptions it would be useful to have more information.
Also, a brain chip! I would be proper cyberpunk with one of those.
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I’d settle for one that allows me to tell IF the people I am talking to are thinking.
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Snark.
I know what you mean; I am endlessly surprised by the number of people who don’t pay attention to the world.
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Are you not concerned that you can’t turn it off? It sounds like everlasting hell to me!
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Apart from closing our eyes, humans can’t turn off their senses at the moment.
It might be very odd at first, but I anticipate my unconscious would start to filter the thought-data in the same way it filters hearing and so forth at the moment.
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That sounds similar to living with a television turned on all of the time. I like quiet!
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