WildcatTue, Sep 16, 2008 Meganmay: " It gives the mind space priority, even in physical space."
well, even in physical space, mind has priority, mind is all there is, though at times we refer to it as an emergent phenomenon and desire to give priority "within mind space" to meat/flesh so-called instincts (coded reflexive information), operations and so on.
the reference folkert gave to your post on human corpus is beautiful and well (the post i mean) and i am all for understanding mind as arising from matter. having said that, we need move on, keeping the idea of a physical entity as primal, is true but belongs to our past mode of thinking, our connectivity is information sensitive, and the fact that we at present inhabit a wetware complex system, in no way indicates this to be the foundation or indeed the necessary case for intelligence and emotional life. we may be proved wrong somewhere in the coming future, but i do not think so.
intelligence in its most humane aspect (empathy and so on) is to my eyes context independent.
being context independent, the coded information (granted that there's lots of work to do there) of our minds allows us to extend our bioperson into the net/grid, as in fact you are doing in this post and as am I when responding, and as are all the listeners when reading.
That very information sensitive situation is what allows us to communicate (both inside ourselves and out with other minds) upon the net.
How to create/allow this connectivity/communication, to become hyperconnectivity and thus give rise to an evolutionary kind of intelligence that develops a new kind of instinct is indeed the task we set ourselves when we became polytopians.
having said all the above, I love the way you tackle the idea, please keep them coming, as interactivity is embodied fertility.
Meganmay: " It gives the mind space priority, even in physical space."
well, even in physical space, mind has priority, mind is all there is, though at times we refer to it as an emergent phenomenon and desire to give priority "within mind space" to meat/flesh so-called instincts (coded reflexive information), operations and so on.
the reference folkert gave to your post on human corpus is beautiful and well (the post i mean) and i am all for understanding mind as arising from matter. having said that, we need move on, keeping the idea of a physical entity as primal, is true but belongs to our past mode of thinking, our connectivity is information sensitive, and the fact that we at present inhabit a wetware complex system, in no way indicates this to be the foundation or indeed the necessary case for intelligence and emotional life. we may be proved wrong somewhere in the coming future, but i do not think so.
intelligence in its most humane aspect (empathy and so on) is to my eyes context independent.
being context independent, the coded information (granted that there's lots of work to do there) of our minds allows us to extend our bioperson into the net/grid, as in fact you are doing in this post and as am I when responding, and as are all the listeners when reading.
That very information sensitive situation is what allows us to communicate (both inside ourselves and out with other minds) upon the net.
How to create/allow this connectivity/communication, to become hyperconnectivity and thus give rise to an evolutionary kind of intelligence that develops a new kind of instinct is indeed the task we set ourselves when we became polytopians.
having said all the above, I love the way you tackle the idea, please keep them coming, as interactivity is embodied fertility.