Daily Reads 104: A Dilbert prediction, memories in the literal heart, and agency and sovereignty.

Experiment Day 104:

Starting off with a Dilbert comic that seems to predict the future we’re in now.

Then asking questions on how the spirit and the physical body interact with memories and thoughts.

Finishing with a conversation on agency and sovereignty.

Articles Discussed

I saw this comic right before seeing the latest news from Meta on their brain-to-text decoder... If you think your apps are listening to you to feed you advertisements now, just wait...

Scott Adams@ScottAdamsSays

2010 Dilbert Classics Week

4:16 AM · Jun 29, 2026 · 46.1K Views

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And this feels like something from the future Dilbert predicted.

AI at Meta@AIatMeta

We’re sharing the next major milestone in our non-invasive brain-to-text decoder research: Brain2Qwerty v2. Building on v1, which was published today in @Nature, Brain2Qwerty v2 is the highest-performing end-to-end pipeline capable of real-time sentence decoding from raw brain

12:10 PM · Jun 29, 2026 · 3.7M Views

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For all the silliness around this topic, I do believe there’s something to it. Have to discern the nonsense from the directionally possible. Brings up interesting questions on how our brain/memories interact, in context of we’re more than just flesh.

The Mystery of Transplanted Consciousness: When Organs Transfer More Than Function

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Interesting article that presents agency as a skill to develop. "Agency is the capacity to act."

Everyone Is Talking About Agency

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