From: Rüdiger (rkoch@rkoch.org)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 06:10:43 MST
This wouldn't be very practical - a global network has latencies with
lower bounds limited by the speed of light. That would make a global
mind an extremely sluggish mind regardless of it's architecture.
Remember our talks about Amygdala clustering and SP/2 switches,
Firewire, Myrinet and SCI links? I guess the physical size of an AI
can't be much bigger than the maximum cable lengths of these network
types. Else you'd get a society of multiple AIs, a sluggish AI or
nothing at all. To get a society you'd need to find collections of
machines that are linked with high bandwidth / low latency such as the
racks at large ISPs.
There really is no need to put consciousness / evolution issues into a
TCP/IP stack. You want to implement that *skyhigh* above of any
application protocol of your liking, such as Corba/IIOP, SOAP, MPI or
whatever. No job for the IETF. There is no consciousness in our neural
communications, too (unless you believe Penrose/Hameroff ;)
-Rudiger
--- Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> > the early network engineers on the Arpanet. I can assure you that
> > evolution and consciousness were not part of the design. The RFCs
> and
> > Internet Protocols still don't support or specify evolution or
> > consciousness today.
>
> A network, whether a WAN or LAN involves information transmission.
> Since
> the nodes are all-purpose machines, and are subject to remote
> exploits the
> architecture can be used for a bootstrap of a global mind.
>
> But of course that's operating the system out of specs.
>
>
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