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comment by Floatbox
Floatbox  ·  4074 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pathway to the Global Brain (part 4/5): Entering the Global Brain

Here's what you inspired me to write today:

    In all our asking about,
    in all our defining of --
    that network of responses -- we find
    the macro consciousness
    emerges from the search
    engine as itself, intelligible,
    living.
and

    We, the neurons
    demand of our esteemed institutions
    respect! Respect
    
    of the unrecorded, the unsearchable,
    the offline and the encrypted
    information, in other words known
    
    as subconscious
    
    information, as sacred 
    in the face of the ever steady march
    towards a concept
    
    of absolute consciousness 
    resembling 
    that of an utter explosion!
I like what you are doing. I also think there's much more room to explore here, especially when it comes to the unrestrained futurism on display. Like books worth of exploration.

Some immediate questions: how does capitalism and it's tendency to concentrate power in certain cases (eg: military industrial complex) fit into your vision of decentralized everything? What is the organizing principle integrating the disparate parts? In the brain, we have the self-model as subjective experience -- maybe it is Google? Given so much of our individual identity, behavior and experience is set in the stone of reality, and given a future without limits, what could be our anchor?





theadvancedapes  ·  4051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Love your poem Floatbox! It's beautiful! I especially enjoyed the lines about neurons demanding respect of their institutions. This essentially sums up the entire industrial period.

    how does capitalism and it's tendency to concentrate power in certain cases (eg: military industrial complex) fit into your vision of decentralized everything?

Well, it's not quite clear to me how the economy will be restructured... but I am confident with a few variables:

a) Everyone will have more disposable income (because of more energy and more decentralized government which will prevent massive wealth inequality)

b) A more advanced internet + more mature internet culture + our generation with more wealth = a good future for crowd sourcing of all kinds

In terms of the military - I don't see defence being necessary in the conventional sense. I see a trend towards more things we would call "terrorism" and less nation-state wars. This will require a major shift in how we organize our military and our defence systems in general.

    What is the organizing principle integrating the disparate parts?

The concept of the Global Brain relies on an understanding of self-organizing principles. The mechanism of self-organization will likely be through a social media that is quite intimately connected to our physical reality. We will be able to know what agents in the system are reliable, dependable, credible, efficient, effective, etc. just from their social media history/profile/statistics/reputation which will all be immediately knowable.

These are all great questions - I don't know if I have the best answers for them yet. It would probably make for a great hangout/discussion.