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Skybird · 07-30-12, 07:01 AM

That is since a long time one of my favourite Star Trek episodes!

And this:

http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/

Let'S see what this brings. 3 weeks or 4 weeks ago I read an article about it where some speaker said that they are still "drei Größenordnungen" away from the number of neural connections inside the human brain, he meant by that that the network they have build now still needs to grow by a factor of 10^3=1000. This is hoped to be acchieved by even more computers, and increasing the components's individual potency and capacity.

In my book, the machine at one point tells the stunned human that while human sees himselof as the crown of evoltuion, for him- the m achione - ther ehave been already four evoltuions on earth at least. First silicates, the way they behave, second the evolution that lead to the human strain, third the evolution of ideas that in themselves have started to behave like life forms, too, jumping from brain to brain, giving birth to offspringing ideas, founding a culture of ideas; and fourth and finally: the evolutiuon of machines as a consequence of the rotting and highly vulnerably nature of biological bodies, machines that have an AI and an awareness of themselves and can become vehicles of these ideas. The dominant evolutinary develoepement thus maybe is that of ideas, and machines that have been first formed up by biological entities.

Interestingly many space researchers seem to thiunk that a huge number of extraterrestrial civilisations, if these exist and are running both an intellect and a spece porgram, possibly are robot civilisations, since the dimensions and hazards of space are such that biological life as we know it from earth simply is extremely ill-equipped to deal with these hazards and is too short-lived to negotiate the extreme distances you are confronted with in space. The idea is that biologic life has transported it'S cognitions and intellect to machines, to bypass the biological deficits while still maintaining it'S "self" and "identity". So it can be that this is just a consistent evolutionary direction at which things go, and where successful it must not even be - but could be a possible scenario - that machines have taken over violently from their biological creators.

It's all great wonder and mystery, isn't it.

07-30-12, 07:01 AM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,703 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	That is since a long time one of my favourite Star Trek episodes! And this: http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ Let'S see what this brings. 3 weeks or 4 weeks ago I read an article about it where some speaker said that they are still "drei Größenordnungen" away from the number of neural connections inside the human brain, he meant by that that the network they have build now still needs to grow by a factor of 10^3=1000. This is hoped to be acchieved by even more computers, and increasing the components's individual potency and capacity. In my book, the machine at one point tells the stunned human that while human sees himselof as the crown of evoltuion, for him- the m achione - ther ehave been already four evoltuions on earth at least. First silicates, the way they behave, second the evolution that lead to the human strain, third the evolution of ideas that in themselves have started to behave like life forms, too, jumping from brain to brain, giving birth to offspringing ideas, founding a culture of ideas; and fourth and finally: the evolutiuon of machines as a consequence of the rotting and highly vulnerably nature of biological bodies, machines that have an AI and an awareness of themselves and can become vehicles of these ideas. The dominant evolutinary develoepement thus maybe is that of ideas, and machines that have been first formed up by biological entities. Interestingly many space researchers seem to thiunk that a huge number of extraterrestrial civilisations, if these exist and are running both an intellect and a spece porgram, possibly are robot civilisations, since the dimensions and hazards of space are such that biological life as we know it from earth simply is extremely ill-equipped to deal with these hazards and is too short-lived to negotiate the extreme distances you are confronted with in space. The idea is that biologic life has transported it'S cognitions and intellect to machines, to bypass the biological deficits while still maintaining it'S "self" and "identity". So it can be that this is just a consistent evolutionary direction at which things go, and where successful it must not even be - but could be a possible scenario - that machines have taken over violently from their biological creators. It's all great wonder and mystery, isn't it. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.