It's really interesting to see how the content of many of your personal posts here fit together in the presentation form. I wish though, that the questions asked during the presentation could have been subtitled in to the video, as some of them were unintelligible. I was able to get the gist of the questions from your responses to them, but it would still be nice to see the questions asked. I have to say, I started laughing when you got to the part about sex and how the exchange of ideas can result in pleasure and how that might well be considered sex too, especially in a possible future where mind to mind interfacing might be possible. This is metaphorically spoken of among writers and in writing programs at universities as well; in the creative arts in general, pleasure is the ultimate goal though I should say that "pleasure" is defined differently than it is in common usage in that it generally means the evocation of strong emotions.
Edit: never mind, I just saw your link. Fascinating stuff!I wish though, that the questions asked during the presentation could have been subtitled in to the video, as some of them were unintelligible
I thought he did a pretty good job of paraphrasing each question prior to his answer. Still, I agree that would be nice. But overall, the audio was good and I had no problem following the presentation. Were there questions at the end? If so and they were edited out, that would be a shame. The back and forth were my favorite parts.
Yes, that would have been nice, but overall I felt the sound quality turned out to be alright. I think the dialogue is a little clearer in the discussion afterwards. Although the ideas about the future of sex are largely my own, I can't take credit for proposing that ideas function as units of cultural sex (or memetic sex or idea sex). This is something that is getting more attention now, and it is research that I think is of great utility and may provide useful insight into the future of our species. It could lead to the complete decentralization of sex.I wish though, that the questions asked during the presentation could have been subtitled in to the video
how the exchange of ideas can result in pleasure and how that might well be considered sex too
Nice, I'll check that out. Although, if biological sex is on the out, then it looks like my personal value is going to go down like . . . 93%. All kidding aside, there are actually some scenes in Transmetroplitan that deal with this. One scene is between people who link nervous systems and another is between two people who have uploaded their consciousnesses into clouds of nanites. It would be interesting to hear what Warren Ellis, the writer of Transmetropolitan would have to say about the ideas you've put forth.