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Charles,
I jus read your reply to Christa and your contribution to the discussion on
Memesis etc.
In regards to your: "intelligent agents, acting as the artificial,
and potentially quasi-sentient extensions of the human counterparts
that they represent, will begin to "populate" and perhaps interact
with each other on the global net system. From this beginning will
eventually arise a global, neural net-like sentience that will
shape the activities and socio-economic behavior patterns of the
human population."
Yes, probably. I've gone as far as predicting (a la Hans Moravec) that the
biological humans' capacities will be increasingly 'enhanced' with electronic
implants, that networks will (have to) become wireless and yes, that these
'agents' will become self replicating and self-enhancing and ever keep on
improving themselves. (Oi, my poor students! They wouldn't even believe that
computers would become as portable as a book!!)
If, as human beings, our primary raison d'etre is our imagination and
creativity, it may make sense that eventually we program this into a less
temporal entity and subsequently render ourselves obsolete.
And it might be these superconducting offspring who'll populate the nearby
regions of the galaxy.
We better make sure that this new population carries some of our content; our
better values and with luck, our creativity. A little art wouldn't hurt, even
if just to remember us by!
More of yours: "synthetic sentience" engines. Concepts which were once
considered to be strictly confined to the wispy realms of science fiction
are being translated into functional hardware and software components, which
in turn are destined to become the "organistic subcomponents" of the
global internet organism."
Yes, of course! Except that the current internet can be only a primitive
forerunner of its potential. Conceptually late, technically early, as it is
already on overload...
I like that "Lunatic fringe"... that seems to fit quite well with "one
step..." on the moon, next stop the rest of the universe! Come to think of
it, the Voyagers with their little 1976 computers have long ago proven your
point!
Or maybe, perhaps both of us live too close to Lawrence Lab and that olde
Cyclotron!
Josepha Haveman
http://www.illuminated.com/JH_ArtArchive/
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