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It seems you have answered your own question, freewill doesn't exist. We are all restricted, primarily by culture, also family and friends.

Fear of showing yourself up, the need to feed and cloth yourself. Cyber agents would have its programming restricting it, plus any maintenance needed.

I guess you're right in that sense. However, doesn't it exist in the sense that we can think for ourselves to decide what's right and what's wrong?

I'd much rather have free will and free thought.

Yes, tragically it seems most people hate their jobs, but if you hate your job so much you can always find new work. Going into business for yourself isn't easy, but if it's something you really enjoy it's worth a shot. If that fails, and you have to go back to working for somebody else, it's not so bad: Take it as a learning experience.

Anyway, with the idea of free will coming with responsibilities, yes, perhaps virtual beings like in the Tron films would be like that too.

Have there been any deaths from BCI accidents reported? Or has there not been a BCI-related fatality?

So in other words BCI can be applied to virtual reality. Would the same principles apply to construction vehicles if they were operated with BCI?

I didn't post the link because I didn't have ask for their permission.

Well I just say a demonstration by MMSPgroup on YouTube on BCI typing.

I'm also asking about not only the brain's ability to control the machine through the interface, but if whatever happens to the machine will provide any kind of physical sensation to the user.

Like everything else, it depends entirely on how it's done. You'll need to discuss a very specific process or procedure or technology if you want to get specific about potential harms or benefits.

Well I was wondering if there has ever been a process that allows the operator to feel everything around the machine, while operating it through BCI. If there is such a process, would it be all that dangerous?

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EEG measures brain activity and is completely non-invasive.

That's good to hear, but what if BCI was used to control dangerous machinery?

descartes "I think therefore I am" comes into play here. If you design a system then freewill is automatically restricted and therefore is impossible.

Oh yes, sorry I didn't think about that at first. I may have been to hasty to use Tron and Megaman as examples of artificial being-induced disasters.

It would be interesting for us to be able to create virtual reality beings with their own free will and sentience, but also quite dangerous.

Think about other fictional portrayals of such beings; in Capcom's Mega Man Battle Network series Net Navis are virtual beings that can think and feel for their own. Some are good, others are evil. Evil Net Navis often go so far as to manipulate innocent people into their cause. Capcom did the same portrayal of artificial sentient beings in Megaman X, but leading to a nightmarish 22nd century where a robot dictator wants to exterminate mankind so that Earth is a robot's paradise.

Tron's sequel, Tron: Legacy, gives use the same idea as Megaman with regards to what I just mentioned. If virtual beings with their own free will and consciousness are created, they will have the same problems as our own society (war, genocide, murder, etc.).

Alas, I'm not a computer programmer, nor have I heard of any attempts at making sentient computer programs, but I believe it would take a lot of hard work and financial coverage to create them.

Is brain computer interfacing safe for human beings? What are the health risks tied into such technology?

So in other words one way of decreasing the costs to power maglev trains would be to make the trains themselves faster?

Why can't the electricity needed for maglev systems simply come from energy generated from windmills? There are batteries that can be recharged using solar panels, so perhaps a similar method could be applied to maglev trains depending on the region (Some place that gets clear skies often like the tropics). If I'm wrong, well, I'm wrong.

That robot bird is simply amazing. Even more amazing is the dancing robot from Sony. It appears to move with the same fluidity of a human being.