Dr. Henk L.C. Meuzelaar
40,000+ yrs ago Homo sapiens transcends into self-awareness. Tribal sharing of experiences and ideas via strings of symbolic glyphs, sounds and gestures creates virtual ‘agreement’ realities that confer huge evolutionary advantages but inevitably shroud experiential reality. Linear symbol string languages (LSSLs) still dominate communication today, even in logic, math and science. Unfortunately, LSSL's inability to preserve full information content of N-dimensional scenes and events has generated a minefield of paradoxes and dualities. Moreover LSSL's verbal and written symbol input/output rates are ~10,000x slower than maximum visual image input rates, thereby afflicting all of humanity with de facto ‘locked-in syndrome’. Millennia of double exponential data transmission rate increases fuel the broadband explosion of the last five decades, The looming ‘data tsunami’ is expected to become near-asymptotic within the next few decades. In order to ward off the one-two punch of (1) widespread situational dementia and (2) machine-AI takeover mankind urgently needs to develop n-dimensional language models capable of far higher communication rates than LSSLs can provide. Combining advanced brain scan technologies (i.e. EEG-, fMRI- or PET- based) with immersive, augmented reality displays and mulivariate data analysis strategies opens direct routes to ‘brain glyph’ languages capable of supporting a unified reality in which experiential observations and agreement reality models become essentially indistinguishable. Rosetta-stone-like translation of brain glyph patterns in subjects viewing identical scenes and events will enable self-aware sentients, including man, to learn visual brain-to-brain languages, thereby not only ‘unlocking Homo communicans’ but creating an internet of sentients (IoS). In contrast to the AI-dominated IoT, the IoS can be a communication super-highway with dynamic brain glyph signatures that protect against intrusion by nonsentient AI entities.
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