If I were to ask those of you who just happen to read this, "How much time in a week do you take to meditate or reflect upon the mechanics or workings of your OWN mind, much more, the relative reliabilities of the collective's acquired acumen???" What would be your answer? There is much that can now be garnered via some "due-diligence" forays into the cognitive sciences. The era of applied machine intellect is well nigh upon us, but many seem to either choose an apathetic or fatalistic posture, OR they are simply not well informed. How long do any of you think it will be until the advent of first sentient, cyber- system mind/entity/prototype is realized. ---The "rigorous" models are already complete and only await a bit more maturation from the sensory technologies... and within the span of a decade, we will come to KNOW what the FOURTH (and final?) TECHNOLOGICAL WAVE will play out on humanity... and our SENSE of humanity... our sense of fair play... our abilities to determine our destinies. The relative 'mix' of the "mixed bag" that ADVANCED CYBERNETICS will most certainly bring, will be up to the anticipatory behaviors we choose to embrace today: Will we enjoy a kind of renaissance via a Prometheus UN-bounded, or the all-too-likely, "no-holds-barred" Pandorian "shipping crate?" >> If we wait until "it" has arrived, without having formed a "fair-minded" consensus it will be too late and a remake of the genetics technologies that defy respectful reconnoitering because frankly any would-be legislation or constitutionally valid actions imposed from "the courts" cannot hope to keep pace with the speed of the technology.
Ray Kurzweil's "singularity" is an accurate projection of the thus-far- unimpeded "technological acquisition curve" - a veritable exponential one, to be sure. If you are not familiar with "Ray," and his futurist understandings, you may want to "Google" him... suffice to say that he is a positive "possibility" thinker - a technological enthusiast, who is excited at the prospect of what the not-to-distant future may bring - he believes it may spell out "physical immortality" for those who want it... more power to him! > That's seemingly innocuous enough. However, while the "Terminator" scenario is an unlikely one, it IS, nevertheless, a PLAUSIBLE one. Many of Hollywood's scenarios are possible... including "Lawnmower Man," and "Blade Runner," and "I, Robot." You may ask HOW I can make these assertions under such an umbrella of certainty. My group is one of those with a completed model. We are willing to share an "intuitive" model for public perusal, but we need the interest shown as our "outreach" has taken on many fronts, and we are few. We also value our relative anonymity & wish to preserve it for the greater part. When it comes to inherently understanding the implications of sentient "A.I.," this group has has a "leg-up" in comparison to the rest of the population, but we are not about to proselytize our "sense of urgency egregiously upon others. If it would not bother the other members too much, however, I would like to invite interested people to my groups at "Linked-In," and I'll hopefully be recreating them here at Google Groups. If you ARE interested, earmark this discussion, and I'll enter my group's hyperlinks at a later date. That's all for now. Oh, except that you might be intrigued by the term given to our methodology by A.I. circles: it involves the search for archetypal ubiquitously operative system concepts within the range of competent "HRDs" or Human Reconnoitering Dialogues so it is aptly named - "AUTO- EPISTEMOLOGICAL." Despite it being a bit overly simplified of what our model entails, it is essentially accurate; so my group has always "owned it" and made no attempts to embellish or expand upon the term. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
