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