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That's right. We humans are individualized at the organism level and tend to think entirely from the perspective of a single organism. However it seems clear
by riprowan 11y ago
That's right. We humans are individualized at the organism level and tend to think entirely from the perspective of a single organism.
However it seems clear to me that networked intelligence, of the sort that has only existed on Earth for a couple of decades, is actually a new form of intelligence than individual intelligence.
Networked intelligence on Earth is extremely new and weak, however I am confident that in my lifetime we will recognize it as an "emergent intelligence".
- meric 11y agoI'd say our markets are a form of network intelligence.
- WalterBright 11y agoWith all the GPUs and cheap memory these days, I wonder why I am not reading about more attempts to evolve life in a computer than trying to design it.
- jodrellblank 11y agoIf you want to read about evolving life in a computer, have you tried Greg Egan's short story Crystal Nights - http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/ http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/ ? It's fiction, but it's good.
- WalterBright 11y agoGood story!
- Artistry121 11y agoJust read this. Thank you for the recommendation. It was good.
- Angostura 11y ago> However it seems clear to me that networked intelligence, of the sort that has only existed on Earth for a couple of decades Or 120 million years, if you think that ants fit the description.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoOr even billions of years, if you consider bacteria. They span enormous areas and reproduce so quickly that it does in effect act as a broad information network, just not in a way we would call sentient intelligence.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoI'm reminded of Greg Bear's novel Blood Music.
- wlievens 11y agoDamn that was a scary piece of writing.
- gumby 11y agoIn fact they can have collective signaling networks as well -- consider the specialization and signaling that goes on in the biofilms of slime molds. (some examples: https://www.biofilm.montana.edu/node/2438 https://www.biofilm.montana.edu/node/2438 & http://www.nature.com/articles/npjbiofilms20156 http://www.nature.com/articles/npjbiofilms20156 )
- riprowan 11y agoI was referring to " the sort that has only existed on Earth for a couple of decades." That's why I said that ;) Actually my mistake was here, where I wrote: > actually a new form of intelligence than individual intelligence. should have probably said "actually a new form of intelligence on top of human sentience." since I was referring specifically to the emergent intelligence of a sentient species able to encode our intelligence and transmit it throughout the network at near light-speed.
- caf 11y agoWe humans are individualized at the organism level... Are we, though? Isn't an individual human actually a large colony of co-operating cellular organisms?
- pklausler 11y ago... which are each just small bags of chemicals. But it's only at the level of a brain that the illusion of consciousness appears.
- madaxe_again 11y agoWe already have artificial intelligence, in the form of any sufficiently large organisation. Corporations are intelligences of a sort - they take in information and respond to it using defined rules, and by co-opting meat computers as needed.