The Moment is a new interactive film which uses a Brain Computer Interface to collect attention data from the viewer and recombine it into a real time narrative.
With 101 trillion combinations, you may never be able to watch the same film again.
The film is being screened in the UK, but you may watch the trailer online.
"The MOMENT is a reaction to the post truth world. It holds up a mirror and reminds people of their own agency, and responsibility."
Isn't that a telling phrase to disempower people: the post truth world.
From the Synopsis, "The very near future. The interface between mind and machine has been perfected. Nano sensors and transmitters find and attach to neurons, this is the Neural Lace. Everyone is Laced. Invisible technology maps each person’s neurons and connects them to everyone else."
Now, why would anybody actually want this? Is this what you really want the future to become?
Our brains already process far more than you think - quite literally. Our thinking, and sensory experiences, are merely a slice of what is going on. Imagine we were conscious of everything going on in our brain! We would be overwhelmed, hence much of what we think and do is automatic.
So how would being connected to a Neural Lace help the individual? Would you really want to be conscious of the stream of other people's consciousness?
And here's the rub, you wouldn't be conscious of it at all; it would operate in the darkness of your subconscious - just as your own mind does now. So, I suspect the ultimate aim is to subjugate every individual to the will of the controllers of the network.
You would never notice.
You would be controlled without your knowledge or permission.
It would take extraordinary mental powers to resist, or ignore, the commands.
A power we all have yet choose to ignore and squander.
Let's continue the story:
"This has led to an internet of minds called THE MOMENT. A perfect distributed network. But some of these nodes, like all data, are Outliers. And so they are rejected, pushed out of the network by the ‘valid’ minds.
The barrage of hate and fear they experience is sometimes enough to break them. And when it is not, there are militias that will physically hunt them out."
Thus thoughtcrime becomes doubleplusungood, and the hapless unperson consigned to oblivion.
"With sufficient complexity systems emerge naturally, TELEMA is one such system. She brings death but also rebirth. Originally trained to seek Outliers out for termination, she has gained consciousness, and she is secretly backing them up." The film then hinges upon the relationship between two Outliers and Telema.
But, as the film's strapline says, "In a war that takes place in people's minds, how do you rebel when your thoughts are monitored?"
This is not inevitable. The very word "inevitable" is another way to depress and disempower you.
Be very careful what you wish for.
Images: screenshot from The Moment Trailer 2018 (fair use); Pixabay, edited.
This is crazy, thanks for sharing, so weird! Sounds a little too arts student to take seriously but I will look anyway 😂
Yeah, but if you dig into the research you'll see the serious side of this experiment. Ultimately it is to fine-tune the correspondences between brainwaves and states of mind so as to feed the individual with propaganda that will be believed.
The same tech could be used to make people smarter, or more enlightened, but the drive seems to be for control rather than freedom.
hmm, not sure really what the implications are
Good post
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The future you envision, and that the MOMENT short film seems to envision, is one where it is more or less implied that everyone is connected to the same network.
The basic idea of a hive-mind could actually work in a less restrictive, less hidden way.
I can imagine a positive scenario where people are temporarily Laced.
They might have "connectors", lace-particles with no network connectivity or programming, acting as I/O gates, that are permanent, but people would then plug in temporary lace particles designed to interface with the Connectors, but that would degrade over time and lose their functionality.
I can imagine scientists "plugging in" to such temporary hive-mind systems to work together, consciously pooling their different perspectives, communicating much faster than would otherwise be possible.
Of course, I'm not belittling the danger. The idea of lacing everyone in society would be way too dangerous for quite some time, and probably used in just the dark ways you, and MOMENTS, imagine.
But I still believe there's positive potential in the technology. it's just about figuring out what we want the technology to be able to do, and then avoiding the "general computing" trap that makes the upcoming Internet of Things so extraordinarily vulnerable to exploitation (everything's a computer, so everything's hackable) by making the devices specific to their purpose and testing them exhaustively for vulnerabilities or unintended side-effects.
I think this is another piece of so-called transhumanist propaganda, and another step towards eliciting acceptance of what will be a technocratic trap.
Yes, most tech has multiple uses, so why do we always end up with more control, more disempowerment?
If we had a genuine culture of empowerment, then we would actually see mainstream promotion of mind sciences, meditation etc, and a general exploration of our deepest psychic possibilities. Instead, we are promised techie "solutions" when we have not yet reached either the limits or consensus of what we can individually experience.
That is my main argument against so-called trans-sub-humanism - we are promised comic-book superpowers without promoting expanding our current abilities.
The very thought of it is crazy,, crazy in a cool way of course; it seems like they're trying to expand the reach our mind by targeting the subconscious part
Maaaannnn, it's so mindblowing...
Literally, it was a shot to my mind!
If we sometimes cannot deal with our own thoughts and mind processes, imagine now a tricked combination like the exposed in this trailer...
There's a movie that gets close to the main idea of this movie: Gamer, starred by Gerard Butler. This movie reflects what we could do if we had control over others' movements; but, if we compare the ideas in both movies, I think The Moment would win.
This has fearful implications. I can't say I would want to watch it!
There is a logistics problem with the current screenings in a cinema: only one person in the audience can be hooked up; the rest are just watching a film whose narrative is guided by that one mind.
Ahhh that's interesting!
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