square white world :: the legitimation of network representations as being the science of human survival – Olivier Auber

{ 2017 03 16 }

the legitimation of network representations as being the science of human survival – Olivier Auber

…an STI@home (Search for Terrestrial Intelligence modelled on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home) initiative could propose to participate in the creation of a network of detectors and amplifiers of human intelligence, capable of revealing the mechanisms of our stupidity, and of neutralizing them. It goes without saying that this should be done in a very special way so as not to once again put human intelligence at the service of stupidity.

The Global Brain Institute uses scientific methods to better understand the global evolution towards ever-stronger connectivity between people, software and machines. By developing concrete models of this development, we can anticipate both its promises and its perils. That would help us to steer a course towards the best possible outcome for humanity.Devoratus-style civilizations. Some intelligent species could follow the propensity of the human species to the predation of all available resources and to the constant rise of energy consumption.

Evidence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) or Stellivorous-style (star eating) civilizations: A Fourier transform analysis of 2.5 million spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was carried out to detect periodic spectral modulations. Signals having the same period were found in only 234 stars overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range. … we consider the possibility … that the signals are caused by light pulses generated by Extraterrestrial Intelligence to makes us aware of their existence.

Formabilis-style civilizations. Some civilizations could imagine as certain humans do, that their evolution would be guided by morphic resonance (Sheldrake, 1981). This theory is supposed to explain some phenomena of synchrony and precognition, especially in networks where all agents predict the behavior of others, but also the replications between living systems without apparent physical links such as distant civilizations. … a civilization of this style would survive only if its AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) succeeds in discovering the evolutionary laws of networks and applying them to itself.

Imitativus-stlyle civilizations. Other civilizations facing as we do the mystery of their evolution, could imagine that they are basically the toys of invisible informational patterns, which would use them to evolve and replicate. According to this belief, these patterns would survive beyond the civilizations that convey them, in forms that would evade the senses and the understanding of intelligent beings. These beings would be in fact only sorts of computer simulations driven by some quantum demiurge.

“There’s a billion to one chance we’re living in base reality,” Elon Musk said tonight on stage at Recode‘s Code Conference, meaning that one of the most influential and powerful figures in tech thinks that it’s overwhelmingly likely we’re just characters living inside a simulation.

Pervasus-style civilizations. It is not difficult to imagine advanced civilizations having developed their artificial networks to the point of making them entirely pervasive, that is, connected to the least vital and cognitive function of all members of their population. It is not difficult to imagine also that these networks are controlled exclusively by a very small dominant class, which would ensure it introduces all the biases necessary to maintain its dominance in the algorithms regulating the behavior of the network and each of its agents. A predictable consequence is that the class structure of such an extraterrestrial civilization would be totally crystallized.

Legitimus-style civilizations. … Within a few decades or a few centuries, all the intelligent entities composing a civilization of this type would have … understood the nature of the information linking them, its consequences in terms of social structure, the influence of network topology and, therefore, the dangers presented by the previous scenarios. They would also have done all kinds of experiments on their networks to try to understand their dynamics.

…the case for a change in representation emerging, like that occurred when the hierarchical edifice of the Middle Ages made way for the geometric construction of the Renaissance with 1) optical perspective (Brunelleschi, 1413); 2) the invention of printing press (Gutenberg, 1448).

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