In part, machines is what got us into this mess in the first place. We're losing our ability to do great things by having machines do it all for us.
Quote from: beavisWe are mostly wasting our time learning to do telekinesis or other psychic abilities. It would be A LOT more useful to figure out how these things work (instead of our intuition of them) so we could build machines to do the same. With thousands or millions of people working on it, we would have access to much more accurate info than we could get by ourselves.
They used to say you can't build a machine that can think, but today the world chess champion is a computer. It tied in the last competition, but it is twice as fast now, so it must be a better player now.
We will get nowhere if we only increase our own knowledge but nobody else's. If something exists, science can eventually understand it. Most of us know psychic things exist. We are the few with info on a new subject to science. It is up to us to translate it into scientific terms.
Those of us who are professionals in some area of science (myself included, computer software) should try to help in the design of such a machine. The most useful professionals know about physics and brains.