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Brains are to Minds as Birds are to Flight:
Can Software Achieve Consciousness As Readily As Aircraft Have Achieved Flight?
Transvision 20102010 October 22Martine Rothblatt
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\“One illusion I hope to
dispel is the notion that
our brains are computers
and that consciousness
could emerge from
computation. ”
G Edelman, Second Nature
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Greater Shearwater, N Mayer
“One illusion I hope to dispel
is that birds are planes & that
flight could emerge from
aircraft.” Experts Circa 1900
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When a famous scientist states something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Why Don’t Famous Scientists Like Cyberconsciousness?
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Brains Are Very, Very Complex
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COMPUTERS ARE VERY, VERY SIMPLE
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ERGO…
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BUT…
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AND STILL WE FLY!
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So What Gives? Over-Reaction Against Spooky Cartesian Dualism Led to Erroneous Thinking That the Mind MUST Be Embodied in Biology
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For Sure the Mind Must Be Embodied
But Software and Hardware Will Do As Well as Wetware and Fleshware
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But the Brain Is Vastly More Complex!
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And Birds Are Way More Complex Than Airplanes, Jets & Other Aircraft
Shearwater Gesture, Mayer
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Top Planes Have ≈ 6 Million Parts
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Top Birds Have Over 100 Billion Parts
(Eukaryotic Cells)
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Yet We Fly Pretty Darn High, Far & Well
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Don’t Have to Replicate a Bird to Fly; Don’t Have to Copy a Brain to Be Conscious
Shearwater Sketchbook, N Mayer
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As Birds and Jets Differ, So Will Brains &
Cyberconscious Minds
NO EGGS, WORMS OR DOG PROBLEMS
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CAN IT BE DONE?
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It’s Clear That Mindfiles Need Not Even Approach 100%
• Normal People Remember Only a Small Percent of What They Experience
• Mannerisms, Personality, Feelings, Beliefs, Attitudes & Values Are– Not infinitely variable and unique– Finite sets that repeat across people– Minor variations not material– Recollections & combinations create uniqueness
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Fascinating Mindfile Facts: Estimated Number of…
An adult’s short term memory
Up to 7 items for 3 - 20 seconds
Recognizable faces Several hundred
Personality sub-types Few dozen
Universal facial expressions
6
Adult’s thoughts retained per day
7% - 13%
Emotions Few dozen
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One Hour a Day of Mindfile Deposits Is Enough
• 5 Years to Complete 100,000 Bainbridges
• 5 Years to Upload, Label & Emotion-Code 100K Photos
• 2000 Hours of You on Video! (In 5 Yrs)
The Lifenaut & CyBeRev Projects
Android Phones: Download PersonalityMD from Google Marketplace
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Revival Via Mindware
• Software that enables equivalent functionality to a mind from which mindfiles were abstracted
• “Auto-tunes” based on processing of mindfiles
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So What Makes Us Unique?
• The formula for the number of unique personality frameworks available to mindware, known as a “repeating combination”, would be ST, where S = the number of possible personality trait scores and T = the number of possible personality traits. For our example, ST = 2015 = 328,080,401,001.
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Antecedents of Mindware
• Gameware Avatars• Autonomous Cars• Social Chatbots• AI Engines
– E.g. Novamente
• Neuro-Electronic Mapping
FROM MINDFILES TO MINDWARE TO MINDCLONES
Bina48
•The First MindClone Begins
•Located in Bristol, VT USA
•As Seen in
www.lifenaut.com
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BUT IS CYBERCONSCIOUSNESS ALIVE?
• The expression of a code that enables self-replication and maintenance against disorder– SCHRODINGER
• Capable of replication, mutation, variation and natural selection -- DARWIN
• Something that savors reality, contributes to better enjoyment of reality, a fresh lens on the wonder of creation -- GALILEO
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“Downloading is Pretty Fucking Far From Suicide”
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Mindloading Trusts That Our Bodies Are But a Canvas
“The naked fear of sleeving [is just] paranoid essentialism with its back to the wall.”
Morgan, Richard. Altered Carbon. Victor Gollancz Ltd., 2002, p.164.
IMPLICATIONS – 4TH DOMAIN OF LIFE
N Mayer at mayer@gmavt.net
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IMPLICATIONS: Techno-Immortality
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IMPLICATIONS – EVOLVED IDENTITIES
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THE OBJECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
CONSCIOUSNESS,> Continuum of abilities> When healthy> To be autonomous> & empathetic> As determined by others
Juries do this for brain intent; Psychologists can do this for mindclone consciousness
A Turing
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Biological Essentialists v. Functionalists
Gerald Edelman• “One illusion I hope to
dispel is the notion that our brains are computers and that consciousness could emerge from computation.” Second Nature, Yale University Press, 2006, p. 9
Today’s Presentation• Whether brains are computers is
not determinative of whether consciousness can emerge from computation
• Birds are not planes but airflight emerges from jets
• Autonomy and empathy, semantics and subjectivity, arise from value-weighted pattern associations, regardless of substrate
• Consciousness is what consciousness does
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Conclusion
• The Terasem Hypothesis says that consciousness will arise from sufficiently advanced mindware applied to sufficiently detailed mindfiles.
• It is a falsifiable hypothesis as per Popper • Let the testing proceed• I think the odds are in its favor