Hi Mike,
> Conceptual necessity ...... Bosons, fermions, atoms, galaxies,
> stars, planets, DNA, cells, organisms, societies, information,
> computers, AGI's, the Singularity, it's all inevitable because of
> conceptual necessity.
I think that what you are talking about is not conceptual necessity but
structural necessity. And while I think the structural necessity notion
holds for vast amount of the universe's stuff - my guess is that as
things get more compex there is room for a huge amount of divergent
evolution - so that it's not at all clear that massively compex
entities/systems will emerge similarly all over the universe or every
time the universe is rerun (should such a thing be possible).
At a very abstract level, the emergence of higher intelligence
entities/systems may well be a structural necessity but the emergence
of humans (homo sapiens) or human-like intelligence was highly
contingent. (Maybe racoons could evolve into roughly human-level
intelligences in the right circumstances but it's unlikely they would have
human-like intelligence?)
Hmmmmmm. I just realised that this speculation is getting off the topic
for the AGI list so I will desist now. If anyone wants to follow it up then
maybe we should take it to the SL4 list??
Cheers, Philip
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