Scientists- all Edward Tellers! They're never responsible for the evil their work makes possible. Smarter than the average bears, they know damn well what their research will probably result in, but, like pedophile clerics in the church of curiosity, shrug off responsibility. At this rate [whether in five or fifty years] government mind-reading will be possible, and then you can bet the boys and girls in white coats will tut tut piously and return to their labs to build the groundwork for new horrors.
At first I thought Adi got it right, tho the rudeness and deterioration in grammar is dismaying [the latter is even "more bad" than before the internet :)]. But... Everybody wants to talk - nobody wants to READ. This is the crunch. Literacy levels are declining in my country, Canada. About half of Canucks can't manage a simple magazine article or novel, despite their spewing of ever greater volumes of broken english on the internet. So, in this broader respect, i guess it is, at best, a wash, not a net gain.
This subject attracts a lot of attention, and in "New Age" circles is regarded as something akin to aura reading, a sign of spirituality. It ain't. Proof: every synasthete has different associations to different sounds and colors. It's just neural crosstalk... signals from one sensory channel bleeding thru to another. Fun, and occasionally useful [aids in memory consolidation] but ultimately irrelevant. I have no visualization whatsoever, much less overlapping ones, but am no further ahead or behind than anybody else. Synaesthesia does sound like fun tho.
I agree with Gauldar's comment. How any organization begins is not how it ends. Organizations mutate, devolve, and die just like any organism. For how freemasonry started, see The Sufis, by Idries Shah.
Thanks! I'm a fellow corridor noticer. You should do another page on [usually basement] office building corridors and another on [usually abandoned] factory corridors [both as in chase scenes].
They're never responsible for the evil their work makes possible. Smarter than the average bears, they know damn well what their research will probably result in, but, like pedophile clerics in the church of curiosity, shrug off responsibility.
At this rate [whether in five or fifty years] government mind-reading will be possible, and then you can bet the boys and girls in white coats will tut tut piously and return to their labs to build the groundwork for new horrors.
Everybody wants to talk - nobody wants to READ.
This is the crunch. Literacy levels are declining in my country, Canada. About half of Canucks can't manage a simple magazine article or novel, despite their spewing of ever greater volumes of broken english on the internet.
So, in this broader respect, i guess it is, at best, a wash, not a net gain.
It's just neural crosstalk... signals from one sensory channel bleeding thru to another. Fun, and occasionally useful [aids in memory consolidation] but ultimately irrelevant.
I have no visualization whatsoever, much less overlapping ones, but am no further ahead or behind than anybody else.
Synaesthesia does sound like fun tho.