From geo-territorial privacy to cognitive privacy

Traditionally the notion of privacy has been applied to the physical world, the right to privacy within ones house for example, or on ones property, a rough approximation of what privacy means to the human brain.

Now that humans are increasingly extending themselves with what Marshal McLuhan referred to as the second extension of the human organism, cognitive extensions through digital technology, the notion of cognitive privacy is becoming increasingly important.

This could be understood as memetic privacy, and by extension the ability to select and filter memes autonomously.

Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share common themes.
-Wikipedia

The root of the word privacy can be found in privos, I free, set apart, release, deprive, relieve of.

Since consensus is important to human economies, and has traditionally been processed on human brain-ware, privacy has been limited by that. As long as laws needed the brain, and therefore, the genes to survive and propagate, laws that were loudest in ordering genes to replicate them had a survival advantage, and then with legal systems and representative government there was a gradual detachment of law from dependency on genes, introducing things like property rights and partial privacy.

As consensus is augmented with machines, with the blockchain being the first example of that, human beings will naturally expand the concept of privacy as it relieves their brains of cognitive tasks that have then been outsourced, and something like cognitive privacy or memetic privacy will become the norm.

Jason Silva, epiphany broadcaster, talks about his vision of digital sovereignty in his recent video Physical vs Digital Existence, which mirrors many of my own ideas about where human culture is heading towards.

The normalization of cognitive freedom means that human beings can stay in flow longer, allowing them to form new types of connections, and to be mediated by new types of ideas, which will bring about the same types of industrial, legal and economic revolutions that came with the introduction of property rights.

Jason Silva talks about expanding the flow state in another of his videos, Hacking Your Flow State.

My vision is that once we have built state 2.0 infrastructure, human beings will be able to experience vastly increased flow states without any of the brain hacks that are promoted by storytellers and researchers such as http://flowgenomeproject.com. Flow will become the new normal, and decentralized meme pools will make the human species as a whole vastly more intelligent as it continues to turn its mind inside out.

@Futawe talks about decentralized meme pools and the future of intelligence, story and experience in one of his recent videos, Dataism and Hiveminds.

As Hoyle Leigh writes in Genes, Memes, Culture and Mental Illness: Towards an Integrative Model, the primary pathological memes are those that inhibit or attenuate the brain's executive (ego) function, thus making it difficult for the individual to absorb, process and integrate new information, and so the opposite of that would improve cognitive function, and could be called curative memes.

Laws, and belief in and obedience to certain laws, are memes, and therefore, laws which inhibit the brains ego function are pathological to the organism, while laws that extend the executive function serve as "curative memes", which could extend the human nervous system through an Exocortex.

Lastly, here is a proposal for a system which mirrors my Resilience protocol in many ways, dubbed "Flow" by the writer of the proposal.