Today's Thoughts

If the technology was developed to easily read minds--as in Ian M. Banks' Culture books--then I think I'd want mine to be read. To my understanding, this is a very Christian desire. The desire to be known. Those on the outside focus on the "God saves me" view, but for many Christians themselves, the "God knows" me is just as important. It's inextricable in fact.
I was thinking about how one would design such a mind to marry capability with respect. Dumb interfaces where the dangerous knowledge is filtered seems important. Such a technique would actually be rather simple and verifiable. For example, if we imagine color as the "dangerous thing" but want the black and white image to go through, you could accomplish this through a physical process such that nothing ever need be aware of what the color was. It's impossible to access. (I'm setting aside reconstruction algorithms of course, which are never perfect in any case.) You could do the same with other kinds of information. Information is more orthogonal than many realize.
I intend to force God to make things better, and if God doesn't exist, then I will create God so that things can be made better. If it be impossible to overcome death and time to effect this, then I will first make it possible. And if, as some say, this is all some test, that there is some justification for it all, then I believe that this desire is the answer to the test, the justification for it all.