• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      Low level accountants in the early 20th century.

      No binary monstrosity could ever replace just doing it in your head.

      • Smokeydope@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I always appreciated Dunes idea of a mentat, basically an accountant trained from birth and juiced up on brain steroids to have equal computing ability to a high level AI. Usually when I think of the way human conciousness may evolve and trancend its current capabilities my mind goes right to the psychadellic-bro conciousness expansion and non-localized astral projection stuff, its interesting to consider there are other potential paths to augmenting human conciousness and what other boundaries could be pushed.