Finished my 75 notecards and chem lab [even though I left my lab book in my locker—Patty Greenfield is my hero. <3].
I was thinking, it would be really cool if there was a medium with which to record and exchange thoughts. There are symbols to express the sounds we make to communicate and with cameras we can record visuals as well as sounds. Words can, to an extent, express thoughts, but you lose something in the translation. It would be fun to be able to record what's going on in your brain and share it with other people, so you could see how other people think. I would be really interested in that.
For example, I was reading about Japanese poetry for my research paper, then I was reading KT's poetry, and then I was petting Malvolio and thinking, and then I was thinking about writing poetry, and more specifically writing poetry about what it's like to be human to be discovered at a later date by some alien race, but then I decided writing poetry was too difficult and recording thoughts would be a lot simpler. Theoretically, of course. In practice, I bet writing poetry is easier than figuring out how to record thoughts. xP
But then, of course, that starts to lead to controlling the way other people think and spying on people by reading their minds, and that's not cool.
Almeda | 14.11.02 21:16 | TrackBacki'll give you what's for!
Posted by: on 14.11.02 21:35They're doing some waycool but scary stuff already with brain scans/brain imaging where they can tell if people are lying or not...moving closer to
the day where there IS no privacy left (our brains: the final frontier)
Be careful what you wish for Almeda--you're going to get it.
Read George Orwell and Kurt Vonegut who
anticipated this problem.
I am supposed to be in school now but instead I am typing you a comment though I will not have time to read your entry until later today.
...I'm weird.
Posted by: Colin on 15.11.02 10:30I wonder where the heck we would keep the thoughts. Unless we were able to take out individual pieces of the brain and put them in someone else's head...
But if we were able to clone thoughts, we would be able to clone emotions, experiences, and any other "E" word. That would completely alter the way in which a person would think, because they would feel what the other person was feeling, and see what the other person was feeling. Horrifying, if you ask me. But there are so many things that are related to a memory: Sounds, tastes, sights, physical feelings, emotional feelings, recognition (such as seeing people who you know, or looking at something and knowing what it is). One would need a lot of thoughts to surround the first thought. Heck, you might need the person's whole memory in order for it to be taken in context!
Posted by: Ruairi on 15.11.02 18:50you are so DEEP, kate.
Posted by: Team Elly on 16.11.02 10:11I hope you're not being sarcastic, Eleanour, 'cause that cuts me like a sharpened knife, sharper even than the blade of Godric Gryffindor, which a mere mortal can hold in his hands without even scratching his darling widdle finger-wingers.
Posted by: Almeda on 16.11.02 21:45