I hope i will not make you tired of my english and my little considerations ;)
I've to confess that the "singleton hypothesis" process is running as a background task in my mind these last days.
I'm sure there is several peoples here that would like to become one (or part of ;)... )
so i've just a deep question in my mind now, would like to hear your comments or suggestions.
browsing the net to find some interesting memetics publication at
http://www.lycaeum.org/%7Esputnik/Memetics/
i've find that quote of "What Is Man?" by Mark Twain
available at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/wman10.txt
> Clemens, Samuel "What Is Man?": "Personally you did not create even the smallest microscopic fragment
> of the materials out of which your opinion is made; and personally you cannot claim even the slender merit of
> putting the borrowed materials together. That was done automatically --by your mental machinery, in strict
> accordance with the law of that machinery's construction. And you not only did not make that machinery
> yourself, but you have not even any command over it."
>
i doesn't have read his book, but the guy seem to pretty well express my way of thinking at this moment.
In a way, we are little singletons, as our brains are constructed like a borganisation of a multitude of different agents and parts. But as little genetically engineered singletons reproducing themselves in an exponential way, we have a lot of partners to listen or to exchange ideas, memes,...
If a singleton is truly alone, i think he will not be able to have his intelligence shaped by an external intellectual environment, he will be some kind of deep autist. So probably it's difficult to generate a sane single singleton, one who take all the resources available in a somewhat closed system. (i'm not talking about a Omega Point theory here).
If we try, the singleton will be probably a little bugged (or not totally a true powerful conscience, at least intelligently shaped to use his available agents and parts) and then this singleton is somewhat reduced to the community of the singletons of a lesser order composing him.
the singleton thus will probably have to send Von Neumann probes to be able to have new friends to talk to if he want to optimize himself or if he's just a little bored... the probes will generate singletons in other solar system... etc...
delriviere
christophe