WildcatSat, Oct 11, 2008 @Holo :"I have been reading the posts with much interest but I do not understand many of the words which people use. It feels like a new language is being born out of the man/ machine hybrid and I am like a child learning to speak again. I am still trying to figure out what polytopia means which seems to be a goal of some kind or something to be reached for. Maybe somebody can enlighten me on this."
Thank you Holo, I think you ask seriously important questions that ,as always, do not as of yet have fully describable answers.
There is no doubt that the future in front of us is one of a singularity ( even if KK does not concede the point {see thinkism} ), whether the singularity will be a hard one ( a la R.kurzweil) or a soft one (as I believe we are already experiencing) there is also no doubt that a new and emergent global collective of shared and combined intelligence is rising simultaneously. Concomitant with this emergence a new kind of language is emerging which to some is still obscure and at times even difficult to accept. As an example of this language which to my mind represents a fresh form of cognition (based on the cognitive surplus of our current era as distinct from the Neolithic surplus of production) we may use the term hyperconnectivity. When in hyperconnectivity the flow of information is much higher than our normal capacity to address or indeed absorb said information in a cogent and coherent manner, part of the problem is that hyperconnectivity involves many humans (minds) correlated to many humans (minds) connecting via machines, a situation unlike any in our past.
Whether the mind/brain machines interfaces will bring an age of enlightenment or not is in our hands, which is where the Polytopia concept comes in. A Polytopia as its name implies, is a meta-concept representing the liberty of diverse minds in a hyperconnected situation. A polytopia can be seen as a seed for a new kind of human interaction, human organization and human evolution (though there is an inherent acceptance in a Polytopia to any sentient being, hybrid, cyborg or any other exhibitor of sentiency, AI included). A Polytopia is an organizing principle of reality in an open ended and open sourced manner, allowing for the free exchange and motion, flow and production of ideas, sensations, emotions, creations and so on. The hyperconnectivity situation and the rise of the global brain are introducing us day in and day out into the singularity, yet our minds require a home , a home in which we will live, a Cyberspatial home, an interconnected home, a home where freedom and collaboration reign supreme. For a truly C(_) transcultural event to happen we need bring forth a Polytopia and yes it demands both the effort, the imagination and above all the desire to change the state of affairs into which we are becoming. So to answer another of your questions: are we building a heaven? I take the stance that liberty in cognition, freedom of mind and actuation of said liberty, is a mental/emotional heaven of collaboration and interactive intelligence, and can be called heaven if by heaven you accept a transcultural event of global proportions in which and by which all states of mind have a full stake and possibility of evolution.
that is what a Polytopia can become, if we can muster our resources of mind and physis..
more will come..
@Holo :"I have been reading the posts with much interest but I do not understand many of the words which people use. It feels like a new language is being born out of the man/ machine hybrid and I am like a child learning to speak again. I am still trying to figure out what polytopia means which seems to be a goal of some kind or something to be reached for. Maybe somebody can enlighten me on this."
Thank you Holo, I think you ask seriously important questions that ,as always, do not as of yet have fully describable answers.
There is no doubt that the future in front of us is one of a singularity ( even if KK does not concede the point {see thinkism} ), whether the singularity will be a hard one ( a la R.kurzweil) or a soft one (as I believe we are already experiencing) there is also no doubt that a new and emergent global collective of shared and combined intelligence is rising simultaneously. Concomitant with this emergence a new kind of language is emerging which to some is still obscure and at times even difficult to accept. As an example of this language which to my mind represents a fresh form of cognition (based on the cognitive surplus of our current era as distinct from the Neolithic surplus of production) we may use the term hyperconnectivity. When in hyperconnectivity the flow of information is much higher than our normal capacity to address or indeed absorb said information in a cogent and coherent manner, part of the problem is that hyperconnectivity involves many humans (minds) correlated to many humans (minds) connecting via machines, a situation unlike any in our past.
Whether the mind/brain machines interfaces will bring an age of enlightenment or not is in our hands, which is where the Polytopia concept comes in. A Polytopia as its name implies, is a meta-concept representing the liberty of diverse minds in a hyperconnected situation. A polytopia can be seen as a seed for a new kind of human interaction, human organization and human evolution (though there is an inherent acceptance in a Polytopia to any sentient being, hybrid, cyborg or any other exhibitor of sentiency, AI included). A Polytopia is an organizing principle of reality in an open ended and open sourced manner, allowing for the free exchange and motion, flow and production of ideas, sensations, emotions, creations and so on. The hyperconnectivity situation and the rise of the global brain are introducing us day in and day out into the singularity, yet our minds require a home , a home in which we will live, a Cyberspatial home, an interconnected home, a home where freedom and collaboration reign supreme. For a truly C(_) transcultural event to happen we need bring forth a Polytopia and yes it demands both the effort, the imagination and above all the desire to change the state of affairs into which we are becoming. So to answer another of your questions: are we building a heaven? I take the stance that liberty in cognition, freedom of mind and actuation of said liberty, is a mental/emotional heaven of collaboration and interactive intelligence, and can be called heaven if by heaven you accept a transcultural event of global proportions in which and by which all states of mind have a full stake and possibility of evolution.
that is what a Polytopia can become, if we can muster our resources of mind and physis..
more will come..