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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Solomonsatoshi 12 Dec \ parent \ on: Why AGI Will Not Happen AI
god is dead, apparently.
i suspect however that intelligence is impossible outside of a biological organism as intelligence is oriented fundamentally upon the objective of survival and perpetuation of ones dna.
machines lack this context.
if this is true then AI can be useful only in combination with robotics and will remain trapped in a mechanistic role - and Chinas view on AI seems more closely aligned to this paradigm.
if machines can achieve some form of intelligence then there would logically tend to be spiritual implications along the lines of ahriman, where the humans creating and employing such an entity would become affected and afflicted by such.
i suspect however that intelligence is impossible outside of a biological organism as intelligence is oriented fundamentally upon the objective of survival and perpetuation of ones dna.
watch the linked Susan Blackmore talk, and consider the case that DNA is the mechanism for building the replicator for memes.
I think there's a worthwhile discussion to be had about whether intelligence must be constrained to a biological (DNA-based) system. we could, for example, imagine a "biological" system that's not DNA based.. some other, off-world, biology that uses a different mechanism for transmitting genes. something not based on the double-helix. consider, RNA, a single helix. there could also be a triple-helix.
how about a situation in which humans added a third strand to the double-helix, and created an inheritable trait on the third helix. is that "DNA-based"? What if, instead of storing information holographically in DNA, a human used some crystalline structure for storing instructions which the machines which comprise the human body use for building their little machine parts?
Here's a great discussion with a person researching how DNA is used to construct the little machine parts that make organisms:
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