This gets into very deep water about what the "real" self it. And using this in the machine feedback loop produces weird side effects, like the tendency of Youtube to recommend far-right, conspiracy, anti-vax etc videos because those have high engagement. It's almost a dissociative effect, where people keep watching or clicking but understand less and less why they're doing it.
People who wire a machine directly into the id have obviously never seen or understood Forbidden Planet.
It gets into the value of the humanities. Not the departments at universities but the course of study, which must be concerned with the functional sum of sensory systems.
Since Plato, the humanities has served critical purposes beyond the production of immersive experience. But the two are no more separable than science is from logic.
The value of the humanities, in my view, is in beginning with the sum of the effects and critiquing the mechanics from there. I am afraid this necessitstes something like the opposite of a technocracy, with no lack of sincerity and brevity. Hence it’s historical conguencce with enlightenment, whatever that is ...
>> Not the departments at universities but the course of study
> Why are you making this distinction?
Probably because there's a pretty deeply held belief among a lot of technologists that non-STEM degrees and departments are at best wastes of time, and at worst utterly corrupt.
I've observed the very Youtube behavior you describe, on the newly setup computer on the newly setup location, where I haven't logged in with my Google account. It's really horrible.
People who wire a machine directly into the id have obviously never seen or understood Forbidden Planet.