Hi Dennis,
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today, it appears that humanity in general is not coping very well with, or making the best use of, the thoughts “existing” in their own heads, let alone opening the door to becoming aware of thoughts in other folks’ heads.
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I like the way you think. And I agree with you.
I've put in some thoughts now and conclude that it would benefit the human race to have an off-switch in such a transmitter/antenna.
But an off-switch would render the usefulness re world peace to null.
So... first a version without switch. To make a generation accomplish world peace and to engrave the hows and whys into the hive memory: cooperation and compromise through compassion - by actual understanding and being understood.
I would hope that during this first stage, the ~1 to 10% of human population who are sociopaths and psychopaths can be prevented from a) procreation and b) from seeding new sociopathic growth in their victims.
Having accomplished the weeding-out of psycho- and sociopaths within a generation or two, the off-switch would have to be introduced. So that people can choose when to share their most intimate personality with others.
The hive memory then still provides the knowledge that all people are basically quite nice and aggression is first a symptom of fear - before it can become an addiction-like behavioural pattern. But falling into such a pattern should have become unnecessary by then due to no more "sociopathic seeds" among people.
Why introduce the off-switch?
During the phase of no-switch, all people would guard their emotions, control emotions and the resulting thoughts by self-censoring. In mid-stage of the no-switch project, some would aim for no thoughts, even, just to reduce the chatter. And people would cluster around other people who have accomplished silencing their chatter.
Through that, they'd lose [some of] the ability to associate subconscious motivation with action.
The reason why a scientist or inventor or optimiser nowadays doesn't stop working towards answering a specific question lies in their subconscious motivation. A motivation to strive towards a cocktail of feel-good neurotransmitters which stems from a subconscious memory in childhood that a sudden understanding of stuff, a sudden knowing of stuff is rewarded by a parental authority with hugs&kisses or a Mars bar or something.
In the first generation of no-off-switch, a person is geared towards self-control which also and inevitable makes the subconscious motivation wean.
Not good.
Diversity and progress would suffer bigly.
Also falling in love would turn out to be solely due to a narrative in the mind and some oxytocin. Not a result of the loved one being somehow more worthy of our love than others.
That's too much knowledge and not beneficial to the species.
That's the negative fallout I foresee of the species-wide compassion-through-actual-understanding without off-switch in the transmitter.
I propose a non-deletable timer in the firmware that enables the off-switch 80 or 90 years from the first mandatory, worldwide, simultaneous implementation.
Oh.. I just detected a hickup: people who become parents about 40 years into the project might not have experienced the moments of hugs&kisses or Mars bars in their own childhood. Due to their own parents trying to subdue and self-censor and clustering around other people who also have accomplished the no-chatter self-censorship.
Hm. So ... the generation being born 40 years into the project will be raised without the model of irrational parental love and pride. And their brains won't establish the synapses and feel-good-neurotransmitter cocktails which are essential for individual motivation and individual action. Hence they won't be able to raise their own children with that, either...
The cut-off date 80-90 years after introduction would see mankind as lethargic, immobile mass, depressive. Unable to ignite longing for feel-good moments in their offspring.
Hm.
Interesting. I'd really like to read a loong novel about the developments of people and society.
