> It's pretty hard to believe that being able transfer knowledge between digital brains (something that seems arguably inevitable) I don't think it's necessari

> It's pretty hard to believe that being able transfer knowledge between digital brains (something that seems arguably inevitable) I don't think it's necessarily inevitable. It is not a given that future hardware architectures for AI would be inspectable or copiable, because the extra wiring required to do that is space and energy overhead. It may also be the case that greater intelligence comes through better distributed representations and that it simply isn't possible to cheaply translate knowledge from an inferior representation to a superior one (you may need to relearn from scratch). The ability to transfer thoughts may therefore require a sort of lowest-common-denominator representation, in other words, a language. I imagine that language could be more efficient, though.