A brain uses a distributed transmission function to make decisions using a large bag of context covering all domains once large enough. And so do a team of humans where each brain is functioning as a node/neuron.
When a human speaks/writes in ex. English and another human hears/reads his shared words, this is transmitting directly the same sensory, in the speakers voice. Currently humans can't transmit visual thoughts but we can indirectly activate them in others or send youtube videos to others. However what you show is a bit different, you suggest what if dolphins are acting exactly as a brain and not a team of AGIs? Well unfortunately they each are indeed agents, managing their own food finding, sleeping, navigation, I mean if you have one all alone in a tank it can live on its own and will be like an AGI. Of course they evolved to act as a team too. However it's possible they do use each other's brain to tranmit context like 1 brain does, they'd simply do their dolphin noises, though I'm not sure that is parallel enough, unless many many dolphins are nearby. So in summary, a brain is a brain, and a team is a "brain" and there exist today very united teams that split up steps/jobs. Yes dolphins are a full AGI agent, they don't need others. The team "brain" also is 'there' but not fully functioning yet in different regards; ants do pretty good. We could do better though. Matt, we 'do' want redundant knowledge in many agents, it'd be awfully slow if trillions of nanobot agents had to access 1 memory about gravity 5 miles away. Of course to a 50% degree removing redundancy is key as well to compress the swarm like we do to nets. A swarm of agents is essentially by definition redundant knowledge, arms, eyes, and computer processors. The more the better. Of course you don't want more of 1 memory, but all 5 zillion of them, so 'gravity' and 'electricity' and 'navigation' memories all each have a trillion copies, and he more important memories have more. When an area of the swarm wants to conduct R&D it will assign a variable group to do the same task. In essence, all agents have the same goal, and everything they do has steps to it that can be split up among team members as needed. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Te5067e2e110c2303-M84b71bd8012c8d706238c047 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
