Not sure what you mean by “happening naturally”. There are lots of inventions that are the result of human activity which we don’t observe anywhere else in the universe—an internal combustion engine or a silicon CPU do not occur naturally, for example. But inventing these doesn’t seem very hard in an absolute sense.
It happens to all of us all the time to various degrees, without us realizing it.
Yes, and I think that puts certain kinds of brain hacking squarely in the “possible” column. The question is then how tractable, and to what degree is it possible to control this process, and under what conditions. Is it possible (even in principle, for a superintelligence) to brainwash a randomly chosen human just by making them watch a short video? How short?
Not sure what you mean by “happening naturally”. There are lots of inventions that are the result of human activity which we don’t observe anywhere else in the universe—an internal combustion engine or a silicon CPU do not occur naturally, for example. But inventing these doesn’t seem very hard in an absolute sense.
Yes, and I think that puts certain kinds of brain hacking squarely in the “possible” column. The question is then how tractable, and to what degree is it possible to control this process, and under what conditions. Is it possible (even in principle, for a superintelligence) to brainwash a randomly chosen human just by making them watch a short video? How short?