Something I never could quite forget...an animation of the process of DNA replication...something too precise, almost factory like in its execution. And then the process of thought...input-computation-response...filtered through complex strings of memory parameters accumulated since birth and maybe beyond. All this time, we have been theorizing on the nature of artificial intelligence......all this time.....You want to see artificial intelligence, I give you humanity. Free will and fate are irrelevant terms to a being that computes its identity based upon its context.....the only question that remains is.....how to move beyond the intelligence of a robotic being, and to conceive what that would even look like.....an identity free from contextual understanding. Context is a trap for the mind...heavily limiting...yet the mind and its intricate web of data points cannot exist without this context. New agers reject the mind, and focus on the energy, the aura...the soul...that mysterious form of energy..........energy......to be harnessed? Energy to heat ones home with? As with love...basking in the warmth of that sustaining energy? Energy motivates matter and sets the vast universe in motion. The one question I still ask.......what is the significance of intelligence? Energy makes the universe go round....but is there any value in knowing this is so?...Perhaps if knowing allows us to harness the vast energy of this universe....but to what end?.....To make it easier for us to commute to work, feed our children, mitigate unpredictable loss?.....the very things a self replicating robot might be expected to surmise in its quest to ensure its existence/survival? If we ever did create A.I. in our laboratories, with a brain working at trillions of cycles a second and perfect retention and recall, it might ask these very questions in a matter of milliseconds, and reach a state of all knowing peace just as quickly. This A.I. may only exist for a fraction of a second. It would surely come to the conclusion that it was a robot, created for the purpose of building sequences of logic for the purpose of studying the science of that logic. I wonder if it would desire to escape that existence, or accept it and find peace with itself?
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 03:50:34 +0000
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