brain vs computer

Okay so here is the scoop. Lately, I've been reading news articles about how technology is advancing so rapidly that by the year 2050, we're supposed to be able to download our entire consciousness into our laptop computers. Thats right- just plug in your brain, and apparently you can download your memories and all the data in your head.

So what's wrong with this?

First of all, the brain doesn't store information in bits and bytes. The brain is not a digital storage system. The brain, and more importantly -the mind, is holographic in the way that it stores and retrieves information. Also- the information that the brain stores isn't even really stored with perfectly accuracy anyway. Our perceptions are distorted- peoples' memories are distorted. They're fuzzy. They can be created in a second, so it's not like you have a databank in your head that's just sitting there waiting to be downloaded. All the memories and perceptions in your head are shifting around all the time. What you think you remember today may not have happened that way at all. In fact, usually very little of what you remember actually happened that way.
In other words, we don't see reality. We experience a very tiny interpretation of the world around us. The universe out there, and what's encoded in our head, is really just an experience. It is a holographic representation of various sensory inputs, emotions and experiences at that time. It is not like a zip file. You can't just download it into a computer or slap it onto a flash drive.

So I don't care how advanced computing technology gets, you're never going to be able to just download your memory like a giant storage file, because it's not stored that way. Your brain is not a giant flash chip.

But what if we were able to download our brains into computers?

It sounds great in terms of technology, however what about the social and political implications of this? What would it mean? Would it mean that if you were suspected of committing a crime, the courts would force a download of your brain? Would it mean that your memories and thoughts were no longer your own?
If it did mean that, then, of course, we'd have an era of thought crimes -an era where it could be criminal to think the wrong thoughts or have the wrong memories, or just to have the wrong imagination. If you happen to have the wrong images pop up into your head, and it gets downloaded onto the computer, all of a sudden, you're a criminal. You're an enemy of the state. Why? Because you don't fit the norm. Because you have ideas that they consider to be a threat to their stranglehold on power. You've got to think about these things. Technologies can be promising, but they can also be very threatening, not only to our sense of who we are, but also to our security and privacy as individuals and our very freedoms.

Ultimately, I don't want to see a world where a bunch of computers are looking into our heads. I hope to see a world where individuals examine their own minds. That to me would be the most amazing breakthrough of all.

the cure

Have you noticed this, everywhere you go, someone asks you for money to help find the cure for some disease. It's the race for the cure! It's the walk or run for a cure! At grocery stores, cashiers ask if you want to donate a dollar to help find the cure. Other retailers want to sell you fashion-minded colored bracelets that raise money to find the cure. There's always someone who wants your money in exchange for the hope that your dollar will somehow help them find a cure for some awful disease.

It perplexes me though, and I have a very big question to ask about all of this. This has literally now been going on for decades. Researchers have been searching for a cure for cancer since the late 1960s, and for other diseases since at least the 1970s. At that time, they said cures were right around the corner; it was just a matter of a few more dollars; then they would have the cures available. Well, here we are 40 years later. We've been running this race for decades, funding it with literally billions of dollars. If all this money has gone to the race to find cures for these diseases, then where are the cures?

I am sorry to say this, even though it is so obvious- just not spoken about outloud: you've been conned.

It is proven that for most chronic diseases, there are no cures. Why? Because the diseases themselves are fictitious. Cancer is not a disease, it is just a name given to a pattern of symptoms appearing as a natural result of certain metabolic functions caused by lifestyle decisions. Cancer can't be cured with chemicals. It's no germ.
Diabetes is much the same. It's just a metabolic result. There's no disease, no infection, no virus or bacteria. There's just a result, caused by years of incorrect food choice and lack of physical exercise. So, you see, any race to find a "cure" for diabetes is about as silly as trying to find a cure for breathing hard after running up a hill.

No wonder we haven't found cures for these diseases, even after 30 or 40 years of research and billions of dollars from people giving up their money to fund these research efforts. These diseases aren't technically diseases at all.

The real disease out there by the way, is the disease of distorted language used by the medical community to convince people that metabolic results are "diseases." If you stabbed your leg with an ice pick, you'd probably bleed. That's a metabolic result that follows your actions. It's no disease, it's just a result. Same thing with obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and many other so-called diseases. A person who drinks a 12-pack of cola every day, while avoiding all exercise, is going to end up obese and diabetic. That doesn't make obesity a disease, it just makes it a result. Same as stabbing yourself with an ice pick, only slower.

You want to help find the cure for cancer?
Find it in your grocery shopping habits, in your food choice, and in your own body. Help those around you gain the knowledge to prevent these fictitious diseases, and do your part to stop poisoning your body with cancer-causing foods (like processed meats and most manufactured foods).

The great delusion is thinking that you're helping the victims of disease by giving money to some fundraising organization.