The New Space Time Battlefield

Dharmapoppins
Nov 4 · 2 min read

by Dharmapoppins via intotheempty.net

Set your frequency!

What reality are you tuned in to? Can you really trust your senses anymore?

That space time is a continuous war of perceptual interfaces goes without question (see below) — It’s who can trick who and what can manipulate what.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM

Let’s look at the tech manipulating the current human perceptual battlefield with an eye towards bringing them all together.

If I had my own acronym agency, I’d create a manifold incorporating each of the following perceptual interface hacks.

In other words, I’d make a seamless reality creation tech that could do the following all at the same time (and more):

Make Events Invisible

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45877504/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/scientists-create-time-cloak-masks-entire-event/#.XFWJcRpyaf0

Manipulate Hearing

https://futurism.com/laser-beam-speech-mit/

Manipulate Odour

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2302414/Real-smell-o-vision-TV-unveiled-Japanese-team-NOT-April-Fool.html

Manipulate Sight

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/418887/magnetically-induced-hallucinations-explain-ball-lightning-say-physicists/

Manipulate Emotional Feeling(s)

https://littlefield.co/the-psychoacoustic-effect-of-infrasonic-sonic-and-ultrasonic-frequencies-within-non-lethal-cf05e1fd8673

Manipulate (Extend) the Sense of Touch

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/08/expanding_the_sense_of_touch_outside_the_body-berger-mar-sap_2018.pdf

Create Simple Invisibility

Full ‘invisibility cloak’ is possible in the real world: scientists

Change How You Perceive

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/rewiring-senses-technologies-enable-humans-to-hear-colour-smell-time-1.2864312

Change what you believe?

Actually, who could afford beliefs in such an environment with so much trickery afoot?

We’ve entered an age where instants are all important. The utilitarianism of belief systems (belief being an ongoing, not-just-momentary personal commitment) would go the way of the record player in the face of this tech.

Add in deep fakes and political disinfo operations and what will you be left with? There is no real stable ground for our perceptions anymore, not when ‘the truth’ of each instant is up for grabs.

This leaves us in a moment-by-moment consciousness escape room scenario. No different than it’s ever been really — just now it would be cranked to the max.

Figuring things out will be imperative: These manipulations, whether they are employed solely, or in combination, would be aimed at changing your perceptions, so ergo, many would anticipate your continued existence, which, of course, is good. But in warfare scenarios they will aim to trick your perceptions so you make fatal mistakes.

One freedom in such a reality tech scenario would be to not take what comes your way perceptually as literal, just definitely important. The ongoing mind-frame of a participant in such a ‘world’ would be what counts. This could still be your own if you can keep it essentially framework-less and ready for anything.

But this tech will never happen — right?

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