We are headed off to the cottage in a few minutes, I wanted to weasel out of it and just stay home and write, I feel I’m finally making a bit of progress on my novel, but it’s my Mother-in-Law’s birthday so I’ve got no choice in the matter.
Therefore, I’m going to bang out this blog now, and be done. Somebody posted this on my facebook page this morning and my first thought was ‘cute cartoon,’ which I suspect was the intent, but my second thought was ‘Wow! what an ingenious invention that would be, and actually will be, soon, because scientists are getting better and better at brain mapping and computer nerds are getting better and better at making connections, handicapped people can move cursors just by thinking about it for instance.’
My 3rd thought was ‘this is an important invention on the way to the singularity.’ Then I started to write my response to it and, as I often do, I decided to write my response in the form of a short rhyme, because nobody else does that. Actually, I imagine that in all of the vastness of facebook, there must be a few other people here and there doing that, but I haven’t met them yet.
As is common, when I’m writing a rhyme, the words that come out show me a different way of thinking about the subject. My first reaction is to say, no, no, no, that is not what I meant to say but then I look at them again and think ‘well, maybe it’s not what I intended to say, but it’s true, and therefore valid, and deserves to be part of the conversation.
I wrote:
This will be designed and built some day, we’ll put it to the test
and then our dreams won’t give us any rest
And that is true, the purpose of dreams is to let the brain relax, to filter the images, to keep us from going insane from sensory overload. So, while this might be a brilliant invention, drawing us one step closer to the singularity and the next step of evolution after humankind, it could also result, short term, in massive depression, insanity, suicides and murders galore.
There’s a book in there somewhere.
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