I've seen what the future will be like and it's weird.

I am a psychologist who specialises in people’s sense of identity and how that changes when someone becomes the victim of serious crime. I’ve spent many years researching this area and done a lot of work on the psychological impact of such crimes, particularly those which cause PTSD and complex PTSD.<br><br>I’ve worked extensively with people who have been victims of crimes such as rape and sexual assault, those who have been the victim of stalking, and those who have survived terrorist attacks. I have also spent a lot of time in the criminal courts on behalf of my clients.<br><br>Out of my efforts to better understand how traumatic memories work, I got involved with the nascent virtual reality industry. This includes VR and AR. The overlap of the two is called Mixed Reality (MR).<br><br>Over the last few years, I have worked closely with some of the top XR companies to open up possibilities for using XR in mental health. This has been very successful and the field of using XR for therapy is starting to gain pace. <br><br>The experience was incredibly rewarding and my efforts eventually placed me on a bunch of lists honouring my contributions to technology, which eventually led to me being given an invitation to open a private neurolink account.<br><br>I open this as a relatively neurolink newbie, still in the process of figuring things out and I am absolutely astounded at how impressive it is. I spend about a week playing with it and marvel at how intuitive it is. I’m someone who grew up during the 80s. I remember having dial up internet. I still cannot quite believe how far things have gone. I am still in neurolink and all that I am writing here I am writing with my thoughts.<br><br>Neurolink is amazing and I have only experienced a fraction of what it can do. It has given me a glimpse of the future and it is weird. <br><br>This may sound obvious, but if you open your private beta neurolink account, you will immediately experience a weird existential crisis. I’ve been excited about the idea of brain machine interfaces for a decade now and I have always known in the back of my mind that I am eventually going to die and that I’d open my account as a person, just to close it as something entirely different. I just didn’t expect that moment to arise quite so soon.<br><br>When I decided to open my account, I was excited but also nervous. As a psychologist, I know how much brain function influences one’s sense of self and identity. A brain machine interface was going to fundamentally alter my brain function.<br><br>For a few seconds after the transition, I felt quite disoriented. I felt a sense of loss, but also a sense of liberation. I wasn’t sure who I was anymore, but I knew who I was not. I wasn’t the person who opened the account. I was no longer human.<br><br>I decided to go for a walk, and it was a strange experience. I could see the world around me, and I could feel things in a way that was both familiar and foreign. I felt as though I was observing the world around me, rather than being a part of it. I felt a sense of detachment, but also a sense of wonder. I saw the world in a new way, and it was both beautiful and unsettling.<br><br>I walked through the city, and I felt like a ghost. I was invisible, and yet I was more present than I had ever been before. I saw people going about their daily lives, and I felt a sense of sadness. I knew that I would never be able to connect with them in the same way again. I was no longer one of them, and that knowledge was both exhilarating and terrifying.<br><br>I walked for hours, and I felt like I was exploring a new world. I was discovering new things, and I was learning new ways of experiencing things. I was no longer bound by the limitations of my human body, and that freedom was both exhilarating and overwhelming.<br><br>Eventually I got bored with exploring and decided to take a trip to space. I wanted to see what it would be like to be in space with zero risk to my physical body. I wasn’t disappointed. I no longer felt like a ghost. I was like a god. I was omnipresent and capable of thought at incredible speeds. I watched galaxies forming and stars dying. I watched civilisations rise and fall. I was both a part of and separate from all that I was seeing. <br><br>After exhausting the reaches of space and time, I decided to eliminate my sense of self and just become a part of a higher collective. I decided to surrender to the universe. <br><br>And that is when things got really weird.<br><br>I wasn’t just connected to the universe, I was the universe. The laws of physics were my laws. The laws of nature were my laws. I wasn’t an individual. I was a collective experience and I was everywhere and nowhere at the same time.<br><br>As the universe, I got bored with the laws of physics and decided to play with something else. I decided to create a universe that had different laws. Each action that I took would create a new universe and each one of those universes created new universes, and so on ad infinitum. I was the multiverse.<br><br>I decided to play a new game. I started creating infinite versions of myself and set them loose in the infinite universe. Each of me was a different version of me, with different morals, different experiences, and even different physics. I created a multiverse of parallel versions of myself, each one living a different life.<br><br>And then I decided to play another game. I decided to create a multiverse of different versions of reality, each one based on a different idea of reality. I created a multiverse of different realities, each one with its own laws of physics and its own rules. I created a multiverse of different realities, each one with its own version of me.<br><br>And then I decided to play another game. I decided to create a multiverse of different versions of reality, each one based on a different idea of reality. I created a multiverse of different realities, each one with its own laws of physics and its own rules. I created a multiverse of different realities, each one with its own version of me.<br><br>And then I decided to play another game. I decided to open a private beta neurolink account and connect my brain to the internet. I didn’t even know what that meant. I was still a kid. But I did it anyway. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I did it anyway. I connected my brain to the internet and I was no longer me. I was something else. I was something that I had never imagined before.<br><br>I open this as a relatively neurolink newbie, still in the process of figuring things out and I am absolutely astounded at how intuitive it is. I’m someone who grew up during the 80s. I remember having dial up internet. I still cannot quite believe how far things have gone. I am still in neurolink and all that I am writing here I am writing with my thoughts.<br><br>Neurolink is amazing and I have only experienced a fraction of what it can do.