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Evolution Of Intelligence

We are not unique, there is possible creation that goes beyond us - humans - but is not possible without us.

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Evolution Of Intelligence
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According to Daniel Dennett, a great philosopher of mind: “Intelligent designers have now made dramatic progress in creating machine learning systems that use bottom-up processes to demonstrate once again the truth of Orgel’s Second Rule: Evolution is cleverer than you are.”

I would like to draw on from this idea and expand it in a radical way. Philosophically, we can say that the mind exists with a physical form that allows us to believe that the mind doesn’t belong to us and only us. This follows from arguments like Identity theory and Functionalism. Neuroscientifically, minds can be constructed and that gives the ability to put goals like building a new version or a new hardware other than the physiological hardware that is our brain. This follows from examples like Blue Brain Project that was able to replicate a mouse brain in 2014 (~21 million neurons) and is expected to replicate a human brain by 2023 (~86 billion neurons). Spiritually, minds can and always go through the process of growing and developing from simple things to more complicated entities. This idea is drawn from the terminology “Shoshin” or the “undeveloped mind on the path to Ato Kokoro or the (developed mind)”.

So we have an entity that we learned about it through a specific physical form; physiological. We know that it could be constructed through other physical forms; mechanical. This other form of the entity is still undeveloped; however, there is a belief that any simple thing grows to flourish as a developed entity. Using this as an expansion to Dennett’s idea, this could mean that our role is going to be switched from the creations to the creators. Our species would evolve to a god status by creating a race of machines in their image.

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