Campbell's theory is that a consciousness with less inherent entropy
(less ego, fear, thoughts) has higher lower signal to noise ratio and is
thus more profitable for the larger evolutionary system which is trying
to lower its own inherent entropy through individuating pieces of itself
and giving them free will and feedback loops (a virtual physical
reality) which allow them to evolve. The more profitable you become (in
the context of your real purpose) the better your perception becomes and
the more powerful your actions become. Every religion and many
philosophers use their own terms and metaphors for this process.
It has nothing to do with knowledge/intellect as knowledge is pretty
irrelevant once you step outside of the physical realm. Super Mario's
block jumping ability/knowledge has also very little to do with the
larger reality. His knowledge only applies to a very small subset of
everything there is. The more Mario tries to excel in block jumping the
less he will develop his abilities to interact with other aspects of
reality. Likewise the more you think within the physical reality frame
the less you develop consciousness wise.
As said ... every spiritual teacher will tell you a very similar story.
Calm your mind, meditate, start being instead of thinking, become love
and total awareness and it will change everything ... Campbell just
unified quantum mechanics, relativity with all the religious/spiritual
stuff into a somewhat consistent model of reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkpEdFFNlw4
Not saying that he is right but there definitely are people with a
totally different state of consciousness and AGI will of course know
about all of this. Not just about solving NP-hard problems, theorem
proving and turning everything into computronium. ;-) Our culture is
just very thought based and very little being based and so are our
expectations and extrapolations.
p.s.: You got to ask Ben if he already meditated enough to experience
extraordinary things? ;-)
On 26.10.2014 00:54, Stanley Nilsen via AGI wrote:
Can you give me a clue on the "aware/conscious" parameter? Does this
equate to more knowledge? Is it insight into how things really work?
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