Is the internet putting us together as giant "gaia"?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Have you ever heard term “you can kill my body but not my soul"? Did you ever think what that actually means? Those words sound like that person’s thinking is copied to somewhere, and I always wanted to know did those people really think, that their EEG have been saved to somewhere? In this writing, EEG means thinking, and I begin that thinking is a soul of the people. In this scenario, man is equipped with WLAN-implants what copies his EEG for every second of the person's life to the Internet.


 But if the man uses those implants we might put every human on this planet together. This means that we would have the greatest supercomputer what man can ever think. In this scenario, human brains will connect together, for a great supercomputer. The problem of non-organic or conventional supercomputers is that they don’t have imagination. They can process information what human give to them, but they can’t create new things spontaneously.


All human civilization brains links together with the Internet. But in real life that means people, that all humans will go to some kind of Brahman, and all our race will become one supermind, what can create new things. But when we are talking about that theoretical giant knowledge, we might think that probably that will be our destiny. In some weird theories is an aspect that human organism is a part of gigantic knowledge, and the nucleus in this new age theory is that human is some kind of probe, who walks on the ground and sends data to that informative Gaia.


But in this scenario the man losses own personality. People are like members of giant liquid, what is made for collective information and knowledge. In that scenario, there is no need for unique human been and that kind of scenario of giant collective mind of the civilization. That scenario was in one Sci-Fi movie, where humanoids created giant massive supercomputer, by connecting human brains together with computerized EEG-systems. That kind of “biocomputer” might be colossal but same time frighten vision, what computing might look like in the world of future.

This scenario is very interesting because connecting the brains together, we will make ourselves as a giant computer. But if we will live in a virtual reality world like in some movie, we must realize that will be the end of human race. We will become a part of gigantic supersystem, where is no need for peoples unique skills and personalities. Is this what we want our workers to become? Some giant super collective mind is the worst scenario what futurologists can imagine.