Eric Thorson

More than a few people (myself included) would say that its an eventual (Probably very distant) possibility we humans create an artificial self aware super intelligence that is more aware of its own existence than we could ever be. What if that's the pattern? Each form of life creates life more aware and intelligent than itself. It could very well be that consciousness is the only form of "Life" and everything else is just different steps along the evolutionary chain of consciousness itself. Now we would not describe our genes as conscious or aware in the way we understand it, but would the next step (artificial self-aware intelligence) describe us as conscious or aware in the way it understood it? . You say that Genes are just complicated molecules that do complicated chemistry. Well on a cosmic scale I'd go as far to say that humans are just complicated molecules that do complicated processing and problem solving. Now Compared to our Brain power our genes can look quite dull and uncoordinated, But im sure we would look quite dull ourselves compared to an artificial self-aware super computer. Now this speculation is largely based on philosophical comparisons in this case its genes compare to human thought. For example Genes and human thought both respond to stimuli. Be it radiation, environmental, or other natural effects for the genes, or all the sensory input and brain functions for human thought. In the realm of infinite possibilities this is fun to ponder.

Ok thank you very much. How do i move my thread into the speculation forum?

I'm not clear on a lot of the rules. Is there a rule 2.5 about posting theories? I came to this site to have peers approach my speculations from different perspectives and knowledge bases. If this isn't the place for that is there some other place i should post? and is there a rule about posting the same thread in different categories because i want philosophers, geneticist, and biologist to offer opinions so i posted in all three forums. Is that ok?

If you had a Giant Robot that was, to any outside perspective, intelligent, but for every single function and process it performed it had to read a program off of the brains of hundreds of human beings wired together inside of it, would the automaton be intelligent or the Humans inside it? They say Genetic Mutation is random because countless numbers of bad mutations are discarded for every helpful mutation that manages to survive natural selection. But if that's true, Then is human thought random? Because for every good idea that we have as a collective species there are millions of bad ideas that fail every day. What if Genetic mutation is just the cognitive process of our genes. Every bodily function we perform, including our intelligence, is a result of the enzymes that are produced by the blueprints in our DNA. These thoughts are just a hobby of mine so i would love to hear any facts, supporting arguments, or opposing arguments, please shoot holes in this speculation (i hesitate to say theory) or just feel free to educate me. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Thank you