Comments on: The seers and oracles http://mindhacks.com/2012/03/26/the-seers-and-oracles/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 26 May 2013 04:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bill http://mindhacks.com/2012/03/26/the-seers-and-oracles/#comment-26374 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:31:00 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21910#comment-26374 maybe they’ll become a mutant class like the alphas & deltas. They’ll be represented (exploited?) by a facilitator/ leasing company that offers special functions like honeypot or soldier ants. Humans put a lot of stock in mental ability, it seems unlikely they would pass up possible marketability, maybe an autistic think tank to orient the geeks at DARPA.

]]> By: ming_on_mongo http://mindhacks.com/2012/03/26/the-seers-and-oracles/#comment-26302 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:10:12 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21910#comment-26302 Provocative idea, Tim, especially combining concepts from both Julian Jaynes and Marvin Minsky! Perhaps a missing component for this “evolution”, that’s already on the horizon, is the apparent rapid increase in the birth of Aspergers children (aka, hi-functioning Autism). This is mostly occurring in places like Silicon Valley where their similarly Aspie parents gifts for memory, obsession with detail and “over-focus”, are being well-rewarded in fields like computer technology and programming.
Only it’s recently been noticed that now aprox. 1-in-every-10 of these newer generations of Aspie kids, has all the usual “gifts”, often including photographic memory and very high IQ’s (sometimes off the charts)… except now they no longer have the autistic “disabilities”, like the pronounced withdrawal or lack of social communication skills. In other words our technology seems to be evolving us! And one can only imagine what it will be like as these new Aspie “hybrid” kids age and start reproducing in sufficient numbers to become a self-sustaining “culture” of their own…. perhaps not unlike the way Homo Sapiens once overtook Neanderthals.

http://www.rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57359443-10391709/jake-hanging-out-with-a-teenage-einstein/

]]> By: Tim Poston http://mindhacks.com/2012/03/26/the-seers-and-oracles/#comment-26289 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:02:55 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=21910#comment-26289 This is a nice fit with ideas along the lines of “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”. Homer’s heroes supposedly are never described as feeling anger, etc.: where we would expect that, there is a description of a god speaking, like the mushrooms.
If our descendants make a transition to self-perception as a “Society of Mind”, they will be as alien to us as we are to shamans and Agamemnon.

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