First of all, thank you for this post! Well-written article on a topic I’m surprised I haven’t thought about myself.
My first thoughts are that the post does well in exploring BCI from a risk perspective, but that more would be needed. I think this quote is a good place to start:
″ In a scenario where all citizens (including the dictator) are implanted with BCIs, and their emotions are rewired for loyalty to the state, resistance to the dictatorship, or any end to dictatorship would be incredibly unlikely. ”
That is, if everybody is loyal to this state, is it really to be understoood as a dictatorship? I don’t see the Western democracies based on free-will of today as the last and only legitimate form of government, and think we need to adjust to the idea of the governments of tomorrow be unlike ours based on individualism and free will. I’ve yet to read about it more in-depth myself, but what Bard and Söderqvist call the sensocracy could be worth looking at.
First of all, thank you for this post! Well-written article on a topic I’m surprised I haven’t thought about myself.
My first thoughts are that the post does well in exploring BCI from a risk perspective, but that more would be needed. I think this quote is a good place to start:
″ In a scenario where all citizens (including the dictator) are implanted with BCIs, and their emotions are rewired for loyalty to the state, resistance to the dictatorship, or any end to dictatorship would be incredibly unlikely. ”
That is, if everybody is loyal to this state, is it really to be understoood as a dictatorship? I don’t see the Western democracies based on free-will of today as the last and only legitimate form of government, and think we need to adjust to the idea of the governments of tomorrow be unlike ours based on individualism and free will. I’ve yet to read about it more in-depth myself, but what Bard and Söderqvist call the sensocracy could be worth looking at.