From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu May 27 1999 - 04:41:10 MDT
KPJ <kpj@sics.se> writes:
> It appears as if Raymond G. Van De Walker <rgvandewalker@juno.com> wrote:
> |
> |Why don't we become a big hive mind, and then since we will all be "I",
> |I will own everything, and I can do whatever I think best?
>
> The interconnection between the parts of the human civilization will have to
> exceed a certain level before they form the hive mind. This has not happened
> yet, due to the low throughput of the current networks. You cannot use them
> as true extensions of your senses at this time.
On the other hand, the available bandwidth is increasing
exponentially. Oh well, another Singularity-type curve. Of course, it
is the bandwidth senses-brain (somewhere in the 10-100 Mbit/s range)
that is the real problem, full borganisation likely requires much
more.
> |Also, people have different genomes, and thus different evolutionary
> |accounts to which the resource are totted-up. Still, this seems soluble,
> |too, since 99% of human genomes are shared.
>
> I understand that all life share approximately the same ratio of the DNA.
> Some mailing list member with knowledge on this matter: verify it, please.
No, more unrelated species share less DNA. Exact percentages can
likely be found on the web. However, as far as I know most currently
existing life (with the exception of viruses and very stripped down
bacteria) share the same basic "metabolism libraries". After all, life
had existed for a long while before the archaea, procaryotes and
eucaryotes split.
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