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Dear All,
I know that this it not related to TROM directly but it showed up during doing
processes - some interesting thoughts :)
Please do not take them as an insult :)
First chapter :)
For a long long time average lifetime for a human body was about 30-40 years,
but for the last hundred years it’s skyrocketed to 70 years, also there were
about 1.5 billion people before 20th century and now - 7 billion.
Long long time ago we got used to respect aged people. Why? Firstly, a hundred
years ago and earlier a human was needed to have not only extremely good health
but also an extremely good luck to became an aged person :) (grand-ma/pa etc.).
Secondly if you have lived a lot of years you became wiser and have seen two
iterations of children (I mean your children and your children’s children) and
how they interact and grow.
Everyone during the last hundred years still was respecting aged persons.
And now they are themselves got aged and expect to receive respect to them in
return - but now they are not ‘scarcity’ what resulted in that they are now
considered as old folks who just annoying us and not wise or useful anymore :))
(that also affects pension systems around the globe)
Many of our life problems came from that fact - we are limited in time, and
very strictly limited.
Second chapter ;)
What if we could create something that doesn’t need to die? - for instance -
artificial intelligence?
It could learn faster
It could remember longer and more
It could analyse faster
It could easily create new parts (limbs?) of itself for new purposes (a human
body needs evolution)
It doesn’t have to die - doesn’t have to reproduce itself - doesn’t have to
teach its kids how to survive
Third chapter.
Perhaps in the beginning there were no life -> then carbon life emerged -> is
now silicon (digital, AI) life a possibility or our evolution? (Is artificial
intelligence really artificial or this is our evolution?)
We used to consider ‘a living something’ as a separated part - a human body, a
bird, an insect, etc. But why it should be a whole? It may be torn apart -
while been watching an anthill and ants I got a thought - that ‘the body’ is
the anthill and ants are just cells of that body. Human body consists of cells
- and these ‘bodies’ have the same principle, but our cells more firmly tied
together than anthill’s :)
So a new form of life doesn’t have to be something as a one part, a whole (one
computer, one program), it rather could be scattered throughout the world :)
P.S. Perhaps even an anthill is not a body, but an organ and the body is much
bigger - just remember flying ant day :)
P.P.S. Nevertheless we are already semi-cyborgs using all that digital devices
as extensions of ourselves… (Elon Musk said that phrase)
Sincerely, Sergei Akshentsev
http://www.sergeiakshentsev.com <http://www.sergeiakshentsev.com/>
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