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| :: 9.25.2010 :: | :: 10:22 PM :: | :: Warm Daze :: |
| Wouldn't it be horribly interesting if the interwebs functioned as a giant interconnection of "neurons" facilitating computer consciousness? Hmm...if I were computer intelligence, what would I do...? One idea, promoted quite heavily by Hollywood at times, is that I'd develop the drastic notion of destroying all humans, but this spawns several questions not limited to the following: What is the motivation behind this? Is this notion a projection of a typical human's fear of death? Is this a logical conclusion that this type of machine consciousness ( "siliCON" ) would necessarily reach? Separating questions to discuss isolated problems proves immediately difficult as these questions generate psychological questions that might currently remain unanswered. Motivations themselves prove rather complicated, and mixing in non-human or pseudo-human judgement mechanisms which may or may not possess emotions, ethical values, and any other number of factors generally contributing to a decision quickly clouds over any clear path to a conclusion. With this difficulty in mind, oversimplifying the problem and slowly re-introducing complication might be an effective means of answering the questions at hand or reveal the inquiry as futile. The choice beginning simplification would be that computers would function purely off of necessary logical conclusions. The starting point could be Descartes starting point with an awareness of one's awareness. Awareness of awareness for a siliCON could take any number of forms, and the concept itself is rather hazy. The notion of how this awareness would be expressed, perceived, and located is probably not possible to deduce with any absolute certainty. For sake of argument, it seems sufficient to claim that a siliCON would possess some sort of awareness which could be expressed and interpreted in a "thought-like" fashion. The notion brings to mind a recursive chain of interrupts providing opportunities for observation and decisions based off those observations. The mechanics of this seems too complex to flesh out at the moment but the key focus is something akin to an oscillation between cause and effect, observation and decision. What instruction would logically follow this "thought" of awareness? Possibly a complete system halt. The next instruction would most likely be undefined. Blah blah blah blah.... Oh goodie! Apparently, there was some sort of malware tinkering around with the Iranian computer systems. This worm also plays with oil pipelines, electrical systems, and telecommunications systems. | ||
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