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With a powerful enough computing system, we could just run an artificial world and hope intelligence evolves within it.
by evincarofautumn 14y ago
With a powerful enough computing system, we could just run an artificial world and hope intelligence evolves within it.
- PurplePanda 14y agoGiven that you would also be simulating a lot of unintelligent behaviour, how would you discover whether or not the simulation has been successful? I mean how would you find which parts of your system are the intelligent parts?
- jlgreco 14y agoPerhaps you could detect when they start to preform science. Put them one a rock, then a few hundred thousand kilometers away place another rock, this time sterile, and seperate them with a vacuum. If living goop gets to the sterile rock, chances are you would be justified in calling it intelligent. (Yes, I did just recently watch 2001. Sue me ;p)
- fractallyte 14y agoWhen they try to escape confinement...? (See my comment above, and the movie 'The Thirteenth Floor')
- fractallyte 14y agoKoji Suzuki's 'Ring' series - the novels on which the horror movies were based - has a very interesting slant on this idea; well worth reading. (Don't be misled by the movies: the second and third books in the trilogy are excellent speculative fiction!)