1st Edition, Unrevised
I think you won’t like this text very much…
Today I dare to write something I’ve been saying to people for more than 30 years, whenever I could share closer experiences.
What is virtual?
Most people who reject the new resources of the third millennium boast about needing direct human physical contact, claiming that the virtual will never be as satisfying.
So I ask again: what is virtual, and what is not?
I know… You’re probably laughing right now.
Another crazy guy on the scene!
What a stupid and obvious question!
Virtual relationships today are understood as contact developed through cybernetic means, that is, using communication technologies that allow two people to connect via a camera and microphone.
And if you could touch the person and smell them, would it still be virtual?
It’s only a matter of time before interfaces that complement human senses—smell and touch—become popular.
The pure and shocking truth is that we all live in a virtual world, whether you like it or not!
It is the brain that captures “our reality,” and it needs transducers—sensors capable of detecting environmental changes and translating them into a form the brain can understand, thereby generating what we see, feel, and smell.
We cannot see except through the eyes.
We cannot touch or be touched except through the sensors along the body.
We cannot smell or taste except through the sensors of the nose and mouth.
And so it goes with everything.
So, what is virtual contact?
What we call real and “human” is nothing more than information transducers serving all our senses. The only real difference between what we call real and not real is the number of sensory transducers, which is not yet equivalent.
It’s only a matter of translating tactile and olfactory information.
The fact is that a principle of life in us survives depending on its body, just as communication depends on hardware and its means.
And if in the future, through an implant of chips in our brains, we could eliminate the need for external equipment such as cell phones or laptops?
*Note: Implanting chips in the human brain is already a reality. Elon Musk has already obtained a license for his experiments. His company Neuralink received official approval to conduct human trials of its brain implant technology. In May 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Neuralink permission to begin human clinical trials, marking a major milestone for the company’s experiments with brain–computer interfaces, according to ScienceAlert.*
In fact, everything is already intrinsically virtual, because the principle of life cannot communicate directly with matter except through the body.
An electronic device merely adds an extra layer to the body’s initial capabilities, just like glasses or a hearing aid.
The day may come when someone prefers the company of robots over flesh-and-blood friends. When robots achieve autonomy and perfect humanoid appearance, a chip in the human brain could establish flawless communication and provide absurd interactivity.
Robots could perfectly emulate behaviors that fulfill someone’s needs, while humans have ego in the middle of relationships, messing everything up.
Don’t blame me.
The competition “human beings vs. intelligent machines” has already begun, and I’m not responsible for it.
So you’ll probably ask me if I like this…
I don’t care anymore, because I’ve understood that what is unacceptable today may simply be tomorrow arriving ahead of its time.
As new generations grow closer to daily interaction with machines—for example, the cell phone—they grow more distant from other humans. Even though they think they are super-connected in the humanoid world, they are merely paving the way for a completely alternative future.
In truth, they are only exercising the virtuality of this coexistence. Isn’t that so?
And if your reaction led you to the right question, perhaps you would ask me:
And how does a spiritualist understand all this?
I would say…
The body is only the equipment the spirit uses in dense matter.
The attributes of the spirit far surpass material contingencies; therefore, everything else related to worlds under the conditions of dense matter becomes scrap in the dimension of energy.
The soul is pure energy directed by the principle that gives it life.
Everything else is a means of transition fulfilling the law of evolution.
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