The Possibilities For The New Instrumentalities Of The Mind, And Body

Unfortunately, this is also something you should be very worried about. And I know, there are too many already. But when you are heading into various possible combinations of perfect feces storms, this is what you have to learn to expect.

This is a big part of what scares me about Recombinant Mega Message. As you've seen only an inking of with the new social media manipulations, as well as with media conglomeration, and the ever increasing control of what passes for the making of "informed consent," new instrumentality, new methods. But the real possibilities are far more reaching, and scary.

In the very near future, if not even now, If you can combine the right combination of hypnosis, drugs, audio visual suggestion, and very carefully applied physical stimulus, to a subject (another description to where VR is heading), you will be able to turn that person into a myriad of things both good, and bad; with the bad, I think, being of substantial proportionality to the amount of excess you apply to one factor or another, in either how you go about getting what you want, or the specific goal you had in mind for the overall result. Which is precisely why you do not want people engaging in looking into this sort of thing if "excess" is part of the foundation of your current economic operating system.

Either way, this is power pure and simple. Terrible power to change fundamental aspects of a person's whole identity/meaning matrix. Redefining a person, in essence, on a fundamental level. Something that might be able to be delivered, ultimately, without people being aware of it at all.

And if that weren't bad enough, this really gets ugly when you then add in what will be increasingly possible with genetic manipulation.

Just imagine what will happen if the profit oriented convince enough of us to the idea that, if someone is willing to sign away all liability rights, on being a test subject, for fair compensation, without coercion (so they'll promise profusely), why not let it proceed, full speed ahead? And if they can start testing regardless of liability, what limit on what, too many questionable fantasizers, might be trying to achieve, would there be? That you could enforce in any practical way, even if you could get some watered down rules in place at all in the first place?

And if they can do that, with far too many people, far too desperate, and willing, to sacrifice themselves, if only to give to loved ones, for even a million or more at a go, it would sell. Even if it cost the powerful tens of millions a go, they'd be tempted to do it. They'd be tempted because they would see so many possible fantasies about one aspect, or another of our makeup, that could be made much more useful if it could be amplified way beyond factory specs. And most especially if so under their control.

All this so that the powerful could make a certain response, to a certain stimulus, ever more powerful; and even overpowering. You could do that so that only you could provide the needed input stream, as it were, whatever it might be, wherever it might be needed. And then they might be able to use retroviruses to spread a Trojan Horse entry hack to get you to come to some place for the rest of the procedure (maybe something as simple as a new, wonderful smell you can't quite quantify, but to which you are drawn to, the more of which you get, the better a new drug makes you feel, and so on). And if they had a copy of your specific DNA, they could target you specifically. For whatever bit of whim, or horrible whimsy might come to them as regards to you specifically.

The simple truth here is that so many new good, but also terribly bad, possible outcomes, from the choices that are going to become possible now, that too few people can be empowered to make, cannot be one you could ever rely on for good outcomes for a civilized group of human beings. But this is indeed what you are allowing to happen if you continue to see things in terms of whether it is a profitable commodity or not; which really means that all "values" then are forevermore disconnected from their, original, human origins.

When a thing is then worth what a purchaser is willing to pay for it, and fantasies have become AI aided, electro,chemto,optical, new drugs; drugs that can be realized as a whole being experience of about a supernova of new effect. If that is the case, then all I can say is, pray all you want, but work as hard as you can to make sure that this does not happen.