elearnspace

Sounds similar to what I suggested with TEKL – Your personal memory device : “It will happen some day. It is inevitable. In the near future, someone will decide to record every moment of a human life from birth to death in digital storage…Data captured by the PMD [personal memory device] would be linked over the internet into distributed software services like GPS, Google Maps, facial recognition, speech/text recognition, brainwave analysis and so on. It would create an ongoing record of the people, terrain, and objects in your vicinity.”

Technology is fun when it thrills us, gives us choice, entertains us, or even distracts us. But when technology starts to replace us (not physical work, but what we think is our unique domain: the mental life), we start to get a little concerned. What does it mean to be human? Is conscious memory our unique province? Can the experience of being human – qualia – possibly exist in a technological device or memory card?