Question for fellow transhumanists: If an enlightened person has a neural lace/dust, can they directly share the experience of enlightenment with others who have one too? Or is it impossible to share the experience of having no thoughts? Would you just be sharing a simple sensory experience?

Elon Musk claimed he can make a neural lace by 2027. Much of information technology grows exponentially (this is part of the reason he thinks it can happen so early). I'm not sure if it will end up being a lace or if neural dust is a more updated concept, but either way the goal is the same. I believe experiences are also information technology and, thus, will grow exponentially when the hardware (our brains) is able to grow exponentially through the installation of neural laces/dust (basically just adding more and more artificially intelligent nanobots that connect to the cloud). The biggest reason for this is because we will have massively increased bandwidth for outputting information. When someone else takes that (your sensory experience) in, you have just shared a full experience. They can augment it as they wish, and then pass it back to you and/or others and there will be a whole network of experiences being improved on, partitioned or combined, and passed around just like when someone remixes music, makes fan fiction, or creates/improves upon mods in Minecraft. I think this directly implies an exponentially increasing quality of our experiences, and as we all know, if you double something every year, then starting with 101 instead of 100 makes a massive difference in the long run. Since I'm a transhumanist, I believe that if I don't get run over by a bus before this critical point in history, I will live almost forever (most likely inside a computer until the heat death of the Universe). Yes I actually believe that, and so do the Silicon Valley geniuses and billionaires who are making it their life's work to ensure that this happens. Check out Ray Kurzweil if you're more interested. Anyway, aging experts say most middle aged or younger people will live for this long if they so choose. So... if we are to live this long, and I work hard enough to become enlightened before this technology is invented, could I create a MASSIVE impact in the long run on this inevitable economy of experiences, and therefore the Gross Experiential Product (and I guess GEP per capita as well) of the neural lace network? Or is enlightenment simply the absence of an internal world and my uploads would be just as useless as recording my surroundings with a video camera (I know there are other senses, but you get what I mean)? In other words, would this be a scenario like The Giver (with good experiences lol), or would this be a scenario where I try to show someone the brilliant stars at night and they just shrug?... I think this is a big problem for Zen teachers: they can't just write down what they see, show it to the other person, and have them understand it. If I had wires connected from my head to Lao Tzu's (he's my favorite, sorry if he's not "Zen" enough for you, but I think he was enlightened so who gives a fuck what you call it), how long would it take for me to get enlightened? I know monks have thicker prefrontal cortices, so I'm assuming it would take a fricken long time...

(Mini rant I guess. It's somewhat relevant but not necessary to read. I was just on a roll lol): ...It's not like music, where if you're a skilled artist, you can share a transcendent (audial) experience you're having inside your head. In fact, there's plenty of music that does a good job of helping one realign their "spiritual compass", like Estas Tonne or The Polish Ambassador for example (perhaps Shpongle, but he's a little conspiratorial and nutty). However, with only having had a few years to improve each song/album, their music is not quite as refined and time-tested as Zen scriptures. I think music has more potential than words on a page, but there hasn't been much time for musicians to make use of modern technology to help people have spiritual experiences through it. Maybe I should check out more classical. That's probably created for spiritual purposes. And, I know this is a bit ironic, but I mean to use the word spiritual in the most secular way possible...lol. So yeah. Creation of music by thinking will be another huge help towards spreading enlightened experiences for those who meditate a ton and have a neural lace but aren't musicians.

Anyway... what do you guys think? Is an enlightened person with a neural lace a more effective teacher than one without one? I also just love talking about this shit, so sorry if I ranted too much xD.

Submitted February 23, 2018 at 12:44AM by rektumsempra http://ift.tt/2BMRWwW