Re: A vision

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 05:29:54 MDT

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    Yes, I agree with Hal about the spread of Mind as the big goal,
    Giulio was right in his interpretation. The vastening of mind
    is my real motivation as a transhumanist. But I wanted to write
    something a bit different from the usual Moravec-Stapledon
    scenario of converting everything into a substrate for thinking
    things. It has already been done, but people constantly ask the
    important questions "But what are they thinking *about*? What
    use is all this thinking?". The real answers to these questions
    is of course "Anything!" and "What use if life?"

    One benefit of looking at the spread of intelligence not from
    the perspective of the guiding intelligences but from all the
    other stuff they are spreading, is that one becomes aware that
    the expansion is something more complex and interesting than
    just expansion. It will be adaptation, construction of new
    environments, a strong impetus for evolution and will involve a
    myriad of sub-intelligent entities too. These entities may be
    valuable in themselves or to us, and it would be wrong to leave
    them out of the equation.

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