A reality where people can add things to their bodies like that frightens me.
As an empath/intuitive, I can sometimes sense what's going on in the other person (and more). I know bodies are far more than biological tissue -- some have said we live in an electric universe but I'm sure there's more. I believe humans perceive just a small fraction of reality through their senses although many could naturally perceive far more just through the process of living in a very "embodied", authentic way (closer to one soul's purpose, if you could believe in such things).
Any sense modification/perceiving body technologies would merely serve to increase this "embodiment gap" that humans have.
From working with myself and other people, not being fully IN one's body psychologically/energetically is a result of trauma and just living in this society. This disconnection causes a lot set of other problems. E.g. If you had one shorter leg than another, you'd also have tension problems in other parts of your body due to everything being connected. Enhancing , altering or fixing a symptom will only create imbalance somewhere else. It's a very holistic way of seeing things.
AI and doctors: It is impossible for AI or human doctors to be perfect because we don't know everything about the human body -- why everything works the way it does or why it might break down in some ways. AI might examine biological information and come to conclusions quicker but collating medical info from a patient, treating patients and being a doctor is far more than that. It would take a long time for AI to be as good as a human doctor and would probably add bureaucracy and further cost to the system. In a way, decisions are already made according to predefined "best practice" protocols (which AI might be programmed with) and that has caused its own set of issues. I like doctors being able to microcontrol surgical instruments but many doctors and patients still have a problem with remotely controlling this machinery let alone machinery working on its own.
Also, if you cannot trust robots and AI with ethical decisions (usually very simple practical choices which are morally complex) -- surely your intuition is telling you something? It would be impossible to ensure all AI is programmed with Isaac Asimov's robotic laws for example.
Wealth: Yeah it's going to be interesting to see how Steem develops in this way. It would be interesting to see the bell curve of where/how much Steem is distributed among contributers/curators and through donations. What do users who do nothing get, for example? If this was a 100% Steem world, those who couldn't contribute would have to rely on donations.
I'm new the idea of voluntary welfare. UBI appears to resolve a lot of issues and free up people to contribute and create in whatever way they're gifted to.
I agree that wealth distribution systems should be under decentralized, impartial, non corrupt, non fascist, human control. I like the sound of UBI and voluntary welfare working together!
Interesting conversation :)
Almost everyone can contribute (produce) something. The very few who actually cannot produce anything would be cared for voluntarily very easily then.
That is true implant wise. For example, I would rather we figure out how to heal my hearing nerve damage. Hearing aids help me for example, but they are very frustrating. They don't help very much either.
By doctors I only mean to improve things. If you combine medical errors and prescription drug deaths, doctors are a top killer. They are at number two on the list I believe. It's that bad.
All I'm hoping for is a way to remove all of that death and suffering. Myself and my spouse have both been gravely harmed by modern medicine's professionals. I just don't have much faith in the current system.
It needs improving by people like you, those who believe in nature's remedies, and people who do not have profit as their top priority. Their first objective needs to go back to having healthy people, and we don't have that today because there's no money to be made from a healthy person of course.
As long as people can agree to everything being voluntary, the possibilities are endless. I just reject all notions of forcing people to do anything. It's a bad path to go down and always ends poorly.
The least powerful (concentrated wealth) almost always are the ones to suffer the most too. Give the powerful a system to take over, and they will take it over. That is why no matter what government system is tried, it eventually ends up in favor of the elite at the expense of the regular people.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you've said .
Funnily enough I quit studying medicine for some of the very same reasons. I just couldn't be happy being part of all that. So many students, new graduates and even doctors do care but the whole thing is built on perpetuating models driven by profit, quotas and targets. In the UK for example, doctors don't have time for patients anymore and are highly pressured ( which no doubt increases human error etc). Using AI will just be treating the symptom as it were.
Even education and research is driven by pharma companies and yes, healthy/empowered people aren't very profitable to anyone. My wish is that we see open source medicine, science and research at some point.
At the root of things, society is unhealthy because it is dominated by parasitic mindsets (still present because of unawareness of this energetic disconnection within ourselves). As such, many technologies and systems (including governing ones) are created from a mindset of inner disconnection which will most likely end up benefiting elites or even harming and "parasitizing" both people and ecosystems as a result.
I love the idea of platforms like Steem where knowledge can be shared freely and people can grow in their own awareness -- hopefully this will help us collectively take more empowered decisions and continue spreading some awareness!
I was preparing for the MCAT and was "pre-med." My plan was to go to UMAB, University of Maryland's Medical School, in Baltimore, MD. I was accepted into the MLT Bachelor's program because of my good grades.
They wanted over 1,000 dollars just for my lab fees though. I was broke and could not afford to go even after being accepted. If I had the money back then, I would have gone through the BS program and easily have gone on to medical school.
It just wasn't meant to happen.
Gosh, to think that 1000 dollars then might've changed the course of your entire life!
Life has never followed my plans thankfully. I'm inclined to think if it did, I'd probably be quite unfulfilled :)
At the time I was at UMBC (close to UMAB), and I was so broke even with two jobs, grants, scholarships, and loans that I was eating out of vending machines and starving. haha I had to give up and move back in with a brother of mine. It just wasn't working.
That is very true life plans wise. Even the bad things that happen to us open doors and lead to positive previously unthought of things in the future. I have no regrets! :)
Hear Hear!