On 25/06/2015 2:59 AM, "Richard Aiken" <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Grimmund <grimmund@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > In a combat environment, successfully being able to *ignore* the input from
>> > all but one of your data sources at a time would not be a survival-enhancing
>> > ability . . . .
>>
>> Depends.  If, for example, you have thumbnail video feeds from the
>> rest of your (say, 4 person & a skeet drone) fire team, being able to
>> ignore the other three views to focus on your own feed (unless, say,
>> you need to look at a situation from someone  else's view, or the
>> skeet's view.)
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> [snip of remainder]
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> Agreed.
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> Actually, that's pretty much what I was assuming.
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> But the poster I was responding to was assuming that the troops they describe could control their drones without expensive and time-consuming special training, since they would be born knowing how to do this.
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No, I was not assuming anything, and even contextualised what I proposed. You just chose to ignore this, and went on your own projection of what YOU wanted to think I said because it allows you to continue disparaging me in the discussion.

Corrective invitro neural surgery is one of the very near future medical technologies that when combined with genetic therapy would in my estimate produce neo- Natal capacity for learning to acquire the capabilities I suggested BY ADULTHOOD in LATE 22nd century.

Not hard to imagine given 150 years ago surgeons couldn't perform a safe appendectomy.

Greg

> I was pointing out that young people today who seem to be naturally multi-tasking aren't really doing anything of the sort. They're simply blocking out other inputs as static until they choose to take notice of them. A cybered infant would have to do the same (or they would never attain a human-like sense of self).
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> A trained infantryman - on the other hand - will maintain a degree of situational awareness of those other view, so that if something possibly dangerous pops up in one of them, he'll be able to switch his full focus to it.
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> Richard Aiken
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