One of the greatest mysteries of life is the human mind. What’s hidden in our mind mazes? What makes us who we are? Are we really that different and unique from one another? How can we know? We live and experience this life trough only ourselves as the point of reference.
The closest thing we have understanding each other is maybe empathy. The ability to try and imagine how one might feel going through different experiences and situations in life. Is it very accurate? Definitely not. Can it be tricked, misguided and misunderstood? Absolutely. We will probably never grasp ourselves fully and others well pretty much impossible. We are held captive within our own minds for now.
Let’s imagine though for a moment that at some point in the future, we managed to figure out a way to tap into the minds of others. What would it do to the understanding of ourselves? All of a sudden we would be truly able to see the difference between me and you. Would this understanding then alter the way we experience things? Somehow I can see it enriching our own views of life and make us less fearful and doubtful of our abilities and potential.
Whose minds do I wish I could tap into? Be them for a day, witness their code of essence and patterns of thinking? Well, well.
The first person that comes to mind is the business
magnet Elon Musk
, technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. Holy Moly! SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, Hyperloop, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Neuralink and who knows what else amazing problem-solving projects he is going to come up with and
lift off the ground. One of the most fascinating things about Elon is that he is a thinker of how to make things better for the future of humanity.
“You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse.” - Elon Musk
The second person would be Satoshi Nakamoto the creator of blockchain technology and bitcoin.
Happy 10th Birthday to bitcoin today! ^^ Yes, it is unknown if it is one person or persons, but how exciting it would be to find out this way by jumping in their mind and experience them, their thoughts of their accomplishment and what makes them tick. However, would you want anyone to ever find out who Satoshi is?
“A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990's. I hope it's obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them. I think this is the first time we're trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system.” - Satoshi Nakomoto
Lastly, I would gladly jump into one of the astronauts who at that time happened to be at the International Space Station. Purely for selfish reasons of experiencing through them the floating in Zero Gravity and seeing Earth from a different perspective. I am an earthling and most probably will forever be one, but exploring stars one day in some shape or form would still be great. One can dream.
So what about you? Would it freak you out if someone jumped in your mind and learned about you? Whose minds would you want to explore and experience? You can answer in comments or create a dedicated post about this topic, I will be happy to read and throw some votes your way!
