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Feb 15, 2007 22:16

**NOTE** I wrote another blog entry on Wednesday just incase no one caught it.
The declamation presentations were very interesting. However, I felt that the arguments weren't distributed evenly as there was only one person who was against the chip implantation. However, I don't know how this was worked out amongst the group members so this is ( Read more... )

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Important point to consider abacch02 February 16 2007, 05:52:35 UTC

I think you bring up an important point, one I don't know if we are all considering. This is a proposed learning chip. From what you are saying, and from what I understand, this chip is not a super-advanced encyclopedia with all of the world's known information on it.

Yes there would be an aspect of being able to download hard facts into your brain just like you can go to an encyclopedia to learn about a tribe in Borneo. However, the chip is only designed to provide a level of intellectual supplementation. People start at different levels of intelligence from birth. You can raise your IQ through exercises, but that is limited. The level of intelligence you start with is only enhanced by a chip, and not entirely replaced. The chip mainly increases one's capacity to learn, not their use or execution of the material.

Just because you make a 20 gallon tank for water doesn't mean you have the resources to fill it.

kstanley February 18 2007, 19:31:16 UTC

If a child is implanted with this tracking chip, God forbid he/she is kidnapped, that child will be found sooner and hopefully alive.

I think this could actually happen. It's closer to the scenario that our group came up with regarding security/ID chipping.

Everyone processes information differently, therefore there is no guarantee that the child will necessarily be "smarter." For instance, I can read the exact same text as someone else but each of us may process and interpret it differently.

Yeah the chip seems more like a time saving device to me. I don't have 5-6 hours to read a book, and so I just want to upload it. The synthesis of the read/uploaded info would take a lot longer.