This looks like Ž’s recent trip to Brazil in March 2013.
Our autonomy always was an illusion. Isn’t our language our symbolic system a kind of big dialisis machine, we need to link with it, we can’t survive without it. Daniell Dennet
Virtual Sex In a way sex always was virtual.
Fantasy
Maybe we’ll lose just some narcissistic illusions. We should never forget that the most intelligent machines, work only with their connection with human intelligence. We need always bear in mind the uniqueness of human subjectivity Disagrees with Kurzweil New collective mind blah blah, he still speaks as an ordinary human, we will still feel and reason and emotion as singular human beings.
Paul and Patricia Churchland: No free self, we are just neuronal machines. The illusion of freedom is part of our biological nature. There will be forever a gap, between what we scientifically know, and a users illusion. Then there is Habermas, then there is the Churchlands We can imagine a society which will succeed in making the scientific truth that we are simply neuronal mechanisms part of our daily self-experience. Thus it will be a softer society, one that does not punish etc.
Now Ž is more in line with Thomas Metzinger who wrote a book called, Being No One, The Self Model Theory of Subjectivity 2003. There is only one spiritual position which really elevates our self-experience to the level of brain science, it is Buddhist meditation. Thoughts without Thinker. It is only the radical Buddhist who goes through getting get rid of the illusion of free self who emerges at the level of todays sciences.
German neurologist: Thomas Metzinger No such thing as a Self Something tremendously new may emerge, but it won’t be linked to intelligence. When we imagine the future, as in George Lucas’ Star Wars, we still imagine in categories of federation, Emperor all the medieval ideology has to return etc. It is really very hard to try to imagine a different future.