Comments on: Why the Matrix Will Not Happen

By: Earl Fox

Earl Fox — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:49:46 +0000

Why God didn’t gave us ability of sending thoughts to each other directly (really without using the words)? Because we can’t manage our word-based restricted world. Yes, words sets for us straight rules and put us into frame which restrict us in damaging other brains (though even today we can use words for damaging minds: deceiving, saying bad things about each other, misleading through showing the reality which doesn’t exist, etc).

Words are like an HTTP protocol, and our mind is like a web-server who handles (or not handles) all the requests. If our security systems in mind are weak, we let others manipulate us through the words (rich corporations do it through the words of thousands and millions of people which maintained by one structure)

So, programming languages are like words and they create a whole new world for expressing thoughts the way we want and by even creating the world the way we want, and that’s why I believe that Matrix is possible. But personally I would expected from the Matrix something more than was represented in movie.

By: Earl

Earl — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:17:56 +0000

Security matters will be solved really easily if technology of connecting our brains into network will exist. Logical providing of security will look like forbidding users having direct access to brains, people will have access only to the virtual world – it will be almost the same like living in our current world, but in comparison with virtual one there will be the way of changing reality (but not changing the minds)

By: roman gmekre

roman gmekre — Sat, 29 May 2010 00:52:30 +0000

replace “matrix” with “facebook”

By: submachine0

submachine0 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:05:49 +0000

very cool article. very valid points, also. however, we have to remember that there are dangerous places to be in in the real world as well. there are rogues who would hurt us, hurt us psychologically, and even kill us. there are those who would make us slaves. we can’t expect to make a perfectly safe world. it very likely won’t be safe. and at first may be even more dangerous. but what will happen is that some sort of system will likely be instituted (fortunately or unfortunately) which will serve to safeguard visitors/dwellers and control the tools available to do harm to other visitors/dwellers. what i’m saying is that all those dangers which the author lists are present in everyday life (except the mind-control part – and even that could be debated).

By: coleman yee

coleman yee — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:41:20 +0000

@grind: I’ve read Kurzweil. He’s very smart, but no matter how smart he is, he can’t predict the future accurately, and his predictions are based on a many fundamental assumptions, including the worldview.

I won’t address the rest of the arguments you made. They aren’t even arguments.

By: grind

grind — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:27:24 +0000

The matrix is definitely gonna happen, no doubt about it, its just a matter of when.
Im hoping for like 2020-2030, which is what kurzweil predicts and if you know kurzweil then you know he’s not an idiot who’s just throwin numbers out there.
That whole thing about people trying to hack your minds is plain stupid, i could sit here and expand on that but im much too lazy.

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:28:46 +0000

Even though hackers can hack computers, we still use them!
As long as we can unwind and be left alone sometimes (be offline, reboot, do system restore,etc) and have some solid base unit that cannot possibly be touched by others as it is not “shared”, there is no reason for matrix not to occur.

Some doors cannot be broken in the real world and some would not be in the matrix.

Ofcourse it wont be perfect just as murders occur today.

By: lifeinstereo

lifeinstereo — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:49:19 +0000

As far as breaking into the machine goes, looking at the realistic future of how hardware and biology will be integrated, we are probably looking at nano or molecular computers that are embedded. So, I’m thinking more along the lines of something like a symbiotic system rather than a machine we plug into. Even with external hardware, we would more than likely use type of signal or wave, not an actual physical integration that requires us to “plug in”. Either way, this could be done. Especially if we subscribe to solipsism. I don’t see how the ability to close your eyes, view an interface in your contact lenses and choose to turn on “matrix mode” is much different than dreaming. We sleep and we are vulnerable to “attack”. Especially with 50 billion nano-bots attached to your neuron structures and inaccessible to anyone not performing neurosurgery, it’s not much different than sleep at all.

Of course, the lens reference was just a simple example (see here): http://www.bhfo.org/news/press-releases/contact-lens-display-system-2.html

We are talking safety vs. possibility here. We all know that the “impossible” is possible in dreams. Our brain runs simulations every night, but without practice in lucid dreaming we just don’t have much control. We are basically seeking dream stabilization technology. Our dreams simulate other entities and abstract situations. We know the mind can do it, we just need to find a way to control our subjectivity.

By: coleman yee

coleman yee — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:53:05 +0000

Joe: I suspect that you’re right!

BDR: No doubt that man has been able to achieve great and seemingly impossible things with time, but you’re saying that everything will eventually be achievable – a claim which I find questionable. Some impossible things, I suspect, will remain impossible.

lifeinstereo: That’s quite possible and certainly a lot safer. But while you’re immersed in your XBox Infinity experience, you’d better hope no one breaks in physically and takes over your machine.

By: lifeinstereo

lifeinstereo — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:36:09 +0000

I would imagine that if we had direct access to the brain through some biotechnological API, we could simulate other entities and players and have a “private” version of the Matrix for ourselves, on a small scale to simulate reality, dreams, games, etc… and choose to play alone or who to connect with, if we did decide that we wanted shared experience. I wouldn’t join a central network of people I wasn’t comfortable with, however, a private network or a single-player experience I wouldn’t mind as much.

You know… Playstation 10 or XBox Infinity