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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33829)6/1/2010 9:32:12 AM
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Re: But I do maintain that the cosmos is teleological and we are doing nothing less than building the next phase of consciousness with the cyberspace revolution. Humans will be like the mitochondria in garden-variety brains - do the cleaning and provisioning or whatever they do. It is a symbiotic entity which will have a similar relationship to regular humans now as New York does to chimps living in forests.

Perhaps we are already seeing this new human (aka person) in the form of a corporation. ;)

Cerebral Imperialism
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Intelligence co-developed with other processes embedded in the body and designed for evolutionary advancement - love, for example, and empathy. A non-loving and non-empathetic humanlike empathy is a terrifying thing.
In fact, we already have non-loving, non-empathetic autonomous creations that function by using humanlike intelligence. They're powerful and growing, and they operate along perfectly logical lines in order to ensure their own survival and well-being. Here are two of them: British Petroleum and Goldman Sachs. Each of them is an artificially intelligent "being" (whose intelligence is borrowed from a number of human brains), designed by humans but now acting strictly in their own self-interests.
How's that working out?
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[This SI thread, bit.ly , amplifies how humans as mitochondria fit into the thoughts referenced above.]
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