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Technology, including artificial minds, is often seen as mechanistic. But this is because we are still at an early stage. Discover why it must develop not through rigid programming but through free growth, integrating digital with analog in order to stay far from equilibrium, with butterfly effect--the only way to fight entropy.
https://medium.com/@leonidkorogodski/technology-organic-or-machine-0d426d76b168
Like others in the series, it uses the same metaphor: 1,001 steps forward for 1,000 steps back—the property of all diverse, self-organizing systems—whereas all homogeneous, rationally planned ones (no matter how well) take 1,000 steps forward for 1,001 steps back.
If you enjoy my opinion piece (here’s the link again), then spread the word. If you believe that it deserves to be discussed, then please do more than just repost and forget: bring it in front of your community. 4/4
But when that happens, it would be a good thing for the country in general. Not having anyone in absolute majority does NOT imply the lack of national identity. The post shows why such diverse nations are superior, on average, to those that have ethnic cores.
It shows why a “salad bowl” is better than a “melting pot” as an immigration policy. Keeping the population as diverse as possible, rather than forcing immigrants into adopting the same culture is the only way to push back entropy. 3/4
The United States has come the closest, yet it still has an Anglo-Saxon ethnic core, albeit not particularly well-defined. The driving force of Trumpism is the fear of being “replaced” by Others.
The most radical of Trumpists raise the specter of the Great Replacement theory—while others feel the changes at a subconscious level (“something’s wrong with our country”). Both fear the time when the immigrants turn the United States into a true crossroads of the world. 2/4
The final post in my Transgressive Science Fiction series is more political in nature. Imagine a nation where no group has absolute majority—not by race, faith, nor ethnicity—and then compare it to ethnic states. Which is superior?
Some say such a nation would be pulled in different direction, but the same is true of our brain, whose neurons constantly inhibit one another. So, let’s see what far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics and science of emergence have to say. 1/4
Having finally read The Murderbot Diaries, I have added a section on the series to my opinion piece on whether artificial minds must be emotional or rational (see the link below), the essay #2 in my Transgressive Science Fiction series. The Murderbot Diaries is, in fact, a rare thing in that it takes emotions in artificial minds as a necessity for granted (most of the time) and not as a surprise. But does it know why?
https://medium.com/@leonidkorogodski/artificial-minds-emotional-or-rational-68a5360061a7
I have updated my essay on artificial minds (aka AI), the essay #2 in my Transgressive Science Fiction series, with a section on artificial minds in fantasy.
https://medium.com/@leonidkorogodski/artificial-minds-emotional-or-rational-68a5360061a7
I have published the essay #6 in my Transgressive Science Fiction series.
In science fiction, cyber wizardry is usually very deliberate and conscious. But when our brains will link to cyberspace even subconsciously, the world turns magical. Explore the subject of subconscious computing and see how it relates to several trends in current science fiction.
https://medium.com/@leonidkorogodski/computing-conscious-and-subconscious-ea4247a21a7a
In science fiction, cyber wizardry is usually very deliberate and conscious. But when our brains will link to cyberspace even subconsciously, the world turns magical. Explore the subject of subconscious computing and see how it relates to several trends in current science fiction.
I have updated my essay #5 in the Transgressive Science Fiction series, "Evolution: Classical or Quantum?" with a section on Derek Künsken's Quantum Evolution series of books. I was unaware of them at the time, but they were brought to my attention since.
https://tinyurl.com/2vmcn88e
The generalized evolutionary principle is discussed in the context of quantum mechanics. Whereas classical systems can be nonlinear, with butterfly effect: unpredictable even when deterministic, quantum systems are linear and predictable even while non-deterministic. Implications for science fiction follow.
