We humans are famous for seeing patterns when there are none. Or interpreting what our senses tell us in a desired way. This way many “mysterious experiences” might be explained, UFO sighting and visits, haunted buildings, angels and daemons, paranoia, you name it.
So if we can see all kinds of stuff in just natural clouds, imagine what happens when some artificial signal is provided to our sensory inputs.
Even altering our brain signal processing with drugs leads to fascinating results. Thankfully almost no one x treats experiences under drugs as having any connection to the real world, because we know that our thinking was artificially affected.
Now, what happens when after mastering mind reading we turn to “mind writing”. If potentially any experience could be provided for the brain, how could it be abused? Except for obviously porn. Soothsayers now providing direct connection to the world of the dead will have enough clients. Maybe you can be convincingly shown proverbial seventy two virgins. Well, only morons will buy into such tricks, right?
What I also fear is that such extraneous visions could be induced in me without my consent or even me noticing that I’m being targeted. What if from my inner I’s point of view I’m honestly being visited by Jesus. Or being called by my boss telling me to send sensitive information to such and such e-mail. Or I see everyone on the street eating vanilla ice cream and suddenly I want one too. For that matter I suppose a desire for an ice cream could be induced directly. From a defence standpoint, I could learn to ignore spontaneous desires the same way I already ignore web banners and click-bait articles. Bad for me that I have genuine spontaneous desires which I’ll ignore too. There going to be a very real market for tinfoil hats, advanced tinfoil hats and tinfoil hats pro plus 2.0.
Anyway, anything I see will always be under suspicion. Any observation might be forged, any conclusion might be non sequitur. Come to think of it, my brain is already subject to such mistakes even without evil thought manipulators. Better start learning self-revalidation or something now. How exactly could it be done though?