"Nothing has yet been invented that transmits data directly to the human brain without the requirement that the human be paying attention."
Why brain rather than mind? Why attention rather than consciousness?
The brain-as-computer metaphor is seductive and almost impossible to avoid, but it results in a theory of mind in which there is no "mind" or "thought," just data and its retrieval... which might be another term for "memory"... which is another dimension of the mind undergoing data-overdosed atrophy.
The 1956 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is actually a remake of a same-named film made by Hitchcock in the 1930s. So: more laughs?
"Nothing has yet been invented that transmits data directly to the human brain without the requirement that the human be paying attention."
Why brain rather than mind? Why attention rather than consciousness?
The brain-as-computer metaphor is seductive and almost impossible to avoid, but it results in a theory of mind in which there is no "mind" or "thought," just data and its retrieval... which might be another term for "memory"... which is another dimension of the mind undergoing data-overdosed atrophy.