From: Extropian Agro Forestry Ventures Inc. (megao@sk.sympatico.ca)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 09:05:09 MST
Disclaimer: -- As a non-programmer.. my last code was BASIC ...I am certainly
not the one to compare the internet's "molecular structure" to wetware.
Having said that, it seems given cursory examination , that rudimentary
parts of what we have now is evolving towards several autonomous ,
interleaved global minds. Instead of 2 hemispheres with inter communication
we may have numerous.
The exact structure is evolving steadily, it seems. The need for CPU
structures would likely be
defined by adding a functioning AI. Brains, though very similar have a wide
range of functionalities.
If a global mind is to be most things to most people it has to be both
specialized and broad in its functionality. We are not trying to create a
duplicate of any existing neural structure, but by
understanding the diversity of wetware build an evolving (flexible) copy.
Today's global mind if that is what I can call the sum of all communications
and connected wetware is an "idiot savant".
If what we have today is used as a base, we also do have allowed for a
multiplicity of AI's which could share the same physical domain but operate
autonomously. Like a mind, knowledge is
distributed throughout the organism for redundancy. A minor "stroke" should
not destroy any particular piece of knowledge.
Our current model is not only an "idiot savant" but suffers from runaway
multiple personality disorders. If found in a human we'd commit it.
The internet has survived one of its first assaults, that being the chaotic
liquidity of the financial markets that have created and sustained it .
The next step is to add a functional AI.
Another as has been said is to increase the junction speed and cohesion of the
circuitry.
The lifespan of the human units is important as it adds stability to the organ
at a cellular level.
Compare the functionality of rapidly dividing cancer cells with the cells in
grey matter.
An AI if it were to view itself as a global organism , it would undertake to
enhance each of its components. This bodes well for us "neurons".
If history is any example, we are not going to see just a single AI but
numerous. Can a strategy be developed now which avoids the major headache of
past human endevours "competition for resources which ends in violent
conflict". We don't need 10 AI's dueling it out "highlander" fashion to end
up with a single or pair of survivors... or is this a necessary function of
evolution???
..MJ
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