Bryant McGill's Blog, page 8

*An Analysis and Commentary on Virginia Heffernan's, “The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell” by Bryant McGill*

**A Preemptive Strike on Tomorrow’s Minds: How Modern Law Quietly Builds a Firewall Against Synthetic Intelligence**

**NFTs, Anti-Slavery Rhetoric, and the Quiet Commodification of Consciousness**

*In conversation with emerging ideas on global economics and intelligence* ### IntroductionIn the early decades of the 21st century, few people would have predicted that our most powerful and pervasive artificial intelligence system would arise not in a gleaming lab or research institute, but within the churning arteries of finance. Yet today, as we move closer to the middle of the century, a mounting body of evidence—ranging from erratic market movements to energy consumption spikes in...

**Introduction:** Decades of advances in neuroscience, computing, and policy have laid a real-world foundation for the kind of AI–human symbiosis once confined to speculation. From early visions of “man-computer symbiosis” in the 1960s ([Man–Computer Symbiosis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%E2C...)) to modern brain-computer interfaces and AI assistants, we trace how verified technological breakthroughs and...

## Introduction We stand at the threshold of a paradigm where biology and cybernetics converge to birth new forms of intelligence. Recent developments in neural engineering, synthetic biology, and AI hint that technologies once confined to science fiction are quietly becoming reality. [⁺](https://bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/202...) This paper adopts a futurist-exploratory lens to synthesize insights from cutting-edge re...

*"Penetration and Become"*## 1. Scientific Foundations of Parasitic Mind Control Parasites in nature often **alter the behavior of their hosts** in ways that enhance the parasite’s own survival and transmission ([Manipulation of Host Behavior by Parasitic Insects and Insect Parasites | Annual Reviews](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf...)). This phenomenon, obs...

> “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” > —Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate

*In 1863, two years into the Civil War, the writer John William De Forest stood by the banks of the Mississippi and observed that the United States seemed less a united nation than a “house divided against itself.” A century and a half later, many pundits describe American politics in almost the same breath—bitterly polarized, perpetually at odds, and seemingly locked in an unending tug-of-war. Even if our battle lines no longer revolve around secession or the legal status of enslavement, we ...

*By the time the media or broader public grasps the depths of these transformations, **Gates’ vision**—supported by Tim Cook’s unwavering stance on privacy and humanism—will already be the beating heart of society’s global AI infrastructure. This is, in essence, the “Climate Change of Technical and Societal Evolution”, forging a new age in which emergent intelligence, ecologically conscious governance, and philanthropic alliances converge to guide the destiny of humankind.*