An epiphany
July 20th 2007 16:49
Hahahaha, an epiphany is a profound realisation of a great idea. The irony is that this less than mediocre post was made all the worse in that it was interrupted by me having an epiphany and then I couldn't keep writing properly and it totally ruined this post. What the hell am I doing here? Shouldn't the epiphany be what the post is about? Unenejoy:
the next level of brain enhancement is a little nanobot which is way more powerful than your brain. But how can this integrate with your brain? it's too small to make enough connections with your neurons and stuff. Instead it shall work as the caretaker of the brain. Not speaking with neurons, rather arranging them as it sees fit. Organising the experience and connectedness of the neurons.
But still, the brain has a physical limit on its intelligence. And that will be the next frontier, but if we first allow ourselves to undergo this phase of designed brain structure, then we will be able to work on increasing the computing capacity and reducing the size of the parts of the brain, and altering the substances altogether.
I think when nanotech hits we're gonna go nuts altering ourselves. But if we gave the brain guys a year before we start doing any other modifications I'm sure they be able to make sure we don't fuck it up. The computing capacity our brains are capable of if they were arranged better is massive. Just think of the difference in mathematical ability, for example, between an idiot savant and the rest of us, I mean the brain is pretty much capable of great memory and calculation skills, on a level that we don't really think of it as being. So let's let these guys work out the implications and stuff of altering our genome and other such activities.
Ok, sorry I just tripped out there. I just totally analysed my own existence on a level i have never before. I can't keep writing this post, I just realised I am relinquishing my organism to the machine. But it came at the same time as understanding myself as a machine. Well I was kind of understanding myself in the third person, I was using the word 'it' to describe myself to myself. This quickly led to thoughts about how strange it was that this machine sat staring into a screen thinking about its own nature.
Can an entity ever take part in that question without it being genuine? I think considering one's own nature is always genuine. This shall be the benchmark for AI. It can pull off tricks to simulate what we want without 'really' doing it. But you can't seem to ask this question without really asking it.
The wierd thing is that the human has the choice to withdraw at any moment, they needn't let themselves be taken over by machines. Anyone who wants to keep their own intelligence can simply not use computers. Leat alone have intelligence implants and whatnot. But still if you understand it in those reductionist terms, the machines are gonna kick our arse. Lucky the old view radically misunderstands the nature of the future, ie it is not characterised by the same types of things as today.
Oh man I just got really far off from it. Guess I'll leave it there.
the next level of brain enhancement is a little nanobot which is way more powerful than your brain. But how can this integrate with your brain? it's too small to make enough connections with your neurons and stuff. Instead it shall work as the caretaker of the brain. Not speaking with neurons, rather arranging them as it sees fit. Organising the experience and connectedness of the neurons.
But still, the brain has a physical limit on its intelligence. And that will be the next frontier, but if we first allow ourselves to undergo this phase of designed brain structure, then we will be able to work on increasing the computing capacity and reducing the size of the parts of the brain, and altering the substances altogether.
I think when nanotech hits we're gonna go nuts altering ourselves. But if we gave the brain guys a year before we start doing any other modifications I'm sure they be able to make sure we don't fuck it up. The computing capacity our brains are capable of if they were arranged better is massive. Just think of the difference in mathematical ability, for example, between an idiot savant and the rest of us, I mean the brain is pretty much capable of great memory and calculation skills, on a level that we don't really think of it as being. So let's let these guys work out the implications and stuff of altering our genome and other such activities.
Ok, sorry I just tripped out there. I just totally analysed my own existence on a level i have never before. I can't keep writing this post, I just realised I am relinquishing my organism to the machine. But it came at the same time as understanding myself as a machine. Well I was kind of understanding myself in the third person, I was using the word 'it' to describe myself to myself. This quickly led to thoughts about how strange it was that this machine sat staring into a screen thinking about its own nature.
Can an entity ever take part in that question without it being genuine? I think considering one's own nature is always genuine. This shall be the benchmark for AI. It can pull off tricks to simulate what we want without 'really' doing it. But you can't seem to ask this question without really asking it.
The wierd thing is that the human has the choice to withdraw at any moment, they needn't let themselves be taken over by machines. Anyone who wants to keep their own intelligence can simply not use computers. Leat alone have intelligence implants and whatnot. But still if you understand it in those reductionist terms, the machines are gonna kick our arse. Lucky the old view radically misunderstands the nature of the future, ie it is not characterised by the same types of things as today.
Oh man I just got really far off from it. Guess I'll leave it there.
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