Why Words Aren't Enough

A question we all try to answer is, “What do we want to achieve?” As a child, you might hear, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I've always found that question tough, especially from people older than me. It's not that I don't know where I want to end up, but no specific title fits me. I wish I could explain the semantics of this, but there's a barrier between my mind and language. So, I usually shrug and say, “I want to work with computers,” or something mundane to avoid seeming too smart and garnering unwanted attention or admiration. Truthfully, I want to build stuff. Apps, devices, anything I imagine. But my dream has been to work with the brain, interfacing with it, building on it, and enhancing it.

There is something I've noticed and that it's the rate of technological advancement is proportional to the speed of human communication, starting with the first languages, to mathematics, sharing complex ideas, blueprints to building a house, the internet (insane because you can now literally understand anything), and while these inventions have greatly impacted society and are often overlooked, they still seem incredibly slow and inefficient to me. There are about 500,000 words in the English dictionary, there are on average 86 billion neurons in the brain. Our current language cannot properly capture the semantic meaning and understanding of thought, or idea, perception very well and we make do of what we have, inventing words as we go. But I think it can change. I envision a future where any notion, concept, or feeling can be expressed completely through sharing the same biological patterns they emit to the brain, and transferring it to others. Sharing information directly from brains rather than using our mouths as a slow proxy located in a data center somewhere in Antarctica seems like the best approach to this.

I believe this approach would accelerate human advancement immensely in every field, not just scientific ones. But anyway. Thanks for listening to my rambling, signing out.