On Friday, September 27, 2019, at 8:59 AM, korrelan wrote: > If the sensory streams from your sensory organs were disconnected what would your experience of reality be? No sight, sound, tactile or sensory input of any description, how would you play a part/ interact with this wider network you describe… you are a closed box/ system and only experience 'your individual' reality through your own senses, you would be in a very quiet, dark place indeed.
Open system then closed? Jump into the isolation tank for a few hours. What happens? You go from full duplex to no duplex transmission. Transceiver buffers fill. Symbol negentropy builds. Memetic pressure builds. Receptivity builds. Hallucinations occur. I'm not trying to convince but to further my own thoughts, I guess the question is to what extent are we individuals? Are we just parroting patterns and memes and changing them a little then acting as switches/routers/reflectors? Some people are more reflectors and some add more K-complexity to the distributed intelligence I suppose. But I think that we have less individuality than most people assume. John ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Taa86c5612b8739b7-M737a43e4e9b79a6e8d63fa7b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
