A computer chip implanted behind the eye that could record a person's every lifetime thought and sensation is to be developed by British scientists. "This is the end of death," Dr. Chris Winter, of British Telecom's artificial life team, said Wednesday.
He predicted that within three decades it would be possible to relive other people's lives by playing back their experiences on a computer. "By combining this information with a record of the person's genes, we could recreate a person physically, emotionally and spiritually."
Winter's team of eight scientists at BT's Martlesham Heath laboratories near Ipswich calls the chip "the Soul Catcher." It would be possible to imbue amnewborn baby with a lifetime's experiences by giving him or her the Soul Catcher chip of a dead person, Winter said.
The proposal to digitize existence is based on a sound calculation of how much data the brain copes with over a lifetime. Ian Pearson, BT's official futurologist, has measured the flow of impulses from the optical nerve and nerves in the skin, tongue, ear and nose.
Over an 80-year life we process 10 terrabytes of data, equivalent to the storage capacity of 7,142,857,142,860,000 floppy disks. Pearson said, "If current trends in the miniaturization of computer memory continue at the rate of the past 20 years -- a factor of 100 every decade -- today's eight megabyte memory chips norm will be able to store 10 terrabytes in 30 years.
British Telecom would not divulge how much money it is investing in the project, but Winter said it was taking Soul Catcher 2025 very seriously. He admitted there were profound ethical considerations, but emphasized that BT was embarking on this line of research to enable it to remain at the forefront of communications technology.
"An implanted chip would be like an aircraft's black box and would enhance communications beyond current concepts," he said. "For example, police would be able to relive an attack, r**** or murder from the victim's viewpoint to help catch the criminal."
Other applications would be less useful but more frightening. "I could even play back the smells, sounds and sights of my holiday to friends," Winter said.
It would certainly change the way we live, especially if we know that somebody can some day look back at all of our thoughts, experiences and emotions. That could be an uncomfortable concept for anybody with secret perversions and hidden agendas.
Aaron C. Donahue sees positive and negative connotations connected with this chip. He said he believes that because of the looming wars, the destruction of the Earth's ecology, global warming and overpopulation people are going to have to make dramatic changes in the way they live if they hope to survive much longer. And a chip implant will be a critical part of the global program we must accept.
In other words, everybody must give up their freedom and independence, and start accepting a more communistic and controlled form of life. Donahue also believes that a key to our survival will be the formation of a world government.
The microchip will be an extremely important tool for eliminating the volumes of paperwork connected with establishing identities, handling finance, medical records, and a variety of other things involved in daily living, Donahue believes.
The dark side of the chip lies in the more distant future. Once the planet gets too polluted to support life, people will start transferring their memory chips and consciousness into computer matrix systems and placing them in places that will escape destruction by solar flares, volcanic action and other natural disasters. In other words, they think they will be programming themselves to live forever.
What they will be doing, however, is making cyborgs out of themselves.
Aaron has seen the horror of this in remote viewing sessions dealing with a strange red haired woman in a blue dress that revealed herself to him a few years ago. He found out that she no longer existed as a human being, but was a cyborg, communicating to him from some future time.
Her story is told on Aarons web site. He writes:
"Soon after the wars, it will be apparent that we as a species have little time left to develop an alternative to total extinction. A frantic effort will be employed to transfer human consciousness into a computer matrix that will emulate an idealized world with the holographic illusion, programmed sensation and perceived omnipresence.
"Very sophisticated computers or 'pods' will be buried and encased deep within the earth, at first by the Japanese. Other devices that communicate remotely with these computers will be placed within or on the moon of Earth, mars and a large piece of space rock.
"These computers will maintain a form of human consciousness theoretically for an inconceivable amount of time and so long as this remains true, humans who are locked into this system will invariably ask for death. This any many other paradoxical errors could not be factored within any related program prior to the conception of such a device capable of matching the complexity of human consciousness," Donahue writes. Here is the strange part of this story. He said he has attempted to communicate with the woman in the blue dress, but only receives two basic messages. They are: "let us die," and "2025."
Interesting that the name of the new chip is "Soul Catcher 2025."
