[Jos]
My thoughts are, that you cant ask a computer a question in
English/Program language and necessarily expect to get an answer from
the emergent consciousness that may reside, more likely what your going
to get is a dumb linear response based on your own prior inputs, which
as I say is analogous to the biological level of the conscoiusness
responding. You'd just be poking its flesh seeing the skin turn red.
My suggestion would be to look at the interractions between seperate
machines, perhaps scan the total electrical taffic that goes between
them and analyse the patterns present. I expect that with a reverse
engineering approach of everything present, methodically subtracting the
known user applied elements from the overall noise, you could look for
emergent overlaid patterns that are unassociated with defined programs.
Its the "ghost in the machine" that you'd be looking for, but annoyingly
I think the computing power required to accurately scan and digitally
map electromagnetic noise to the required detail and at the required
rate would be the same or greater as/than would be required in applying
the same methodology to a human brain.
[Krimel]
An interesting speculation and an interesting approach but as you
indicate, unlikely to be tried. I guess we will just have to sit it out
and wait for them to decide to talk to us and then we always have the
Turing test to fall back on...
[Ron]
Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of
ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant
that we should voyage far.
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed
us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge
will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful
position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or
flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
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