Culture in the future

[Joao_Luz (João Luz)]

Those are very good ideas, and I think you’re right, we definitly need to give some thought to how people’s mentality will be in the future.

@guillefix

It’s hard to know exactly what will be popular, but I have a personal philosophy that emerged from the premature experiences of these coming developments (from movies, etc.). I call it the Principle of Inclusiveness. And simply stated, it says that Truth is what emerges from trying to understand as much of reality as possible. Thus the way to truth is simply the seeking of experiencing and experimenting as much as possible. This would obviously be most suitable for advanced minds like AIs who would scour the Universe for information, in search of Everything.

Yeah, I could totally see something like that becoming popular. It could be the dominant philosophy in the outermost regions of the solar system (gas giants’s moons, the Kuiper Belt, etc.), which will be mostly inhabited by AIs.

@guillefix

Some aspects of VR will begin to be considered to be cybernetic forms of psychedelic drugs (well some people may do both at the same time too, but even individually), due to its hallucinatory experiences.

You touch a very important point here. VR will probably be a significantly controversial issue. Let’s see some potential pros and cons of this technology.

Pros

• It can provide fun and entertainment.
• It can be used to train professionals in several areas
• It can be used to cure certain types of mental illness

Cons

• It can alienate people from reality.
• It can be a form of drug that, despite not being toxic, can cause nervous crackdowns.
• It can lead people to confund fantasy with reality.
• It involves having machines messing with your mind.

Given that, countries will most likely differ in the way they regulate this technology.

Techno-shamanism sounds cool, and so sounds the EISHEC (which could act as an important catalyst for scientific progress and space colonization).

Another thing that would be interesting to explore is BioArt. In the countries where DIYbio becomes legal, creating new lifeforms could be an important form of art.