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JASON: For much of human history,
the idea of physical proximity and attentional proximity
were seen as one and the same.
Where I am is what I pay attention to.
Who I'm with is who I pay attention to.
But the notion of who I'm with-- the notion of where
my mind is-- is being transformed to the back
of wireless technologies.
Who are you?
Where are you when you're talking on the telephone?
Are you at the other end of the world at someone else's ear,
or are you over here?
Essentially, attentional proximity
on the back of these technologies
has been disjointed from physical proximity.
Our mind no longer has to be engaging with where
we physically are at.
Our mind has been unhinged-- liberated--
from the constraints of time, space, and distance.
We have transcended geography.
Now granted, we are still interfacing with other minds,
transcending physical proximity-- physical location--
with, you know, magical devices made of plastic and metal.
But eventually, flow immersive virtual reality--
the ability to engage with somebody on the other side
of the planet, in a space that isn't space, that nonetheless
feels like a three-dimensional matrix-- will lead us to a time
when the new thing is going to be called shared co-presence.
It's this notion that mind-to-mind communication
and mediation will be free of any constraints.
This is a kind of technologically-enabled
transcendence of mind over matter-- mind trumps matter,
minds trumps biology, mind trumps any and all limits,
you know.
And it's a wild idea, because most people are still
freaked out about these disruptive and transformative
technologies.
But in the end we're liberating ourselves.
We're gettin rid of our biological staight jackets.
You know, we're learning the songs
that orchestrate the universe.
We're becoming beings that are in superposition.
We're experiencing non-locality at the level of consciousness.
I mean, this is us.
Right?
We're literalizing the prophecies of quantum physics.
It's a wild idea-- something worth thinking.
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