Opposite of what? I don't understand how augmentation is the opposite of the
entheogens (drugs or meditation). Are you saying that, e.g. the Mojo Lens or
Neuralink further restrict, whereas the entheogens lessen the restriction?
If so, then my guess is you could do the same sort of restriction modulation
with any augmentation device. E.g. if there are 1 billion possible data feeds
you could receive, decreasing them is like an undrugged person self-censoring
and such, then increasing them is like taking a entheogen ... that is, assuming
Church-Turing.
If we reject C-T, then it seems reasonable to argue that the body "computes"
something that any computer-based augmentation would restrict, by definition, making it
impossible to expand beyond what the augment provides. Computer-based augmentaiton would
provide a hard limit ... an unavoidable abstraction/subset of reality.
On 8/15/22 19:04, Prof David West wrote:
The hallucino-philia (and Buddhist epistemologists) would argue that our brains
(minds) already fully grasp / cognize / perceive our physical reality. But, for
survival purposes, it self-censors and presents our
consciousness/awareness/attention with a small abstract subset of that
reality—an illusion.
Drugs and meditation are 'subtractive' in that they dismantle the
abstraction/reduction apparatus that generates the illusion hiding our
'full-grasping'.
If such a belief were "true" then "augmenting our brains" would be the exact
opposite, and exceedingly harmful, approach ...
... unless, the augmentation was a permanent [lsd | psylocibin |
mescaline] drip.
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