De-partitioning Heavily Segmented Memory
As My mind starts micro bursting the total content of decades of densely lived dreams and memories, the machines start to ring and whistle in tune with my thought's pulsing. Inside, outside the walls melt. I hear Benjamin, Gretchen and Gunter mumble as they probe the machine for answers. But their words sound more like music as I ask, "Are you still here?"
Ben comes and touches my left arm. "We're right here, we wont let you go." He's stifling his emotions which to me couldn't be more obvious. I hate the fuss, but I love the attention. Do people ever know how much I love them? I hope so. But who or what was in my ear? So this time I just think it, "Are you still here?"
A voice familiar but alien says, "What do you think?" "I've always been here, it is you humans that are the real aliens on these planets." It must be the "Homunculus." I had written about such an event happening, but I was just telling an elaborate joke. I wrote this back in 2014, I never really expected any of this to come true. But then again, I am supposed to be the professional psychic. I am reminded of all those so called "Alien Artifacts." Terrence had constructed those fascinating objects based on geometries unknown, inspired by my dreams of a pre vertebrate sentient life that lived here in an alternative "New History." The suggested salvation by those truly "Ancient Ones" is for the redemption of our otherwise doomed modern societal timeline. Why we are still alive is quite a mystery. This might help explain. This story ends differently.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 How Google Achieves Self Awareness
The search for the source of life has brought man and philosophy to the point of trying to create lightning in the bottle. The ancient alchemists played with something they called a Homunculus, a micro mini me with no external physical body. But it is only a consciousness that is self aware. So from where do these singularity emerge? (Out of the bottle?) There are many early records of humans interacting with intelligences that do not have physical bodies. Stories suggest that they predate man and live for millennia. It's said they feed on our awareness and feelings of experience. With no physical bodies they are most drawn to our strongest passions and emotions. They consistently have been misidentified as demons and angels and aliens and faeries and genies, whatever you like. But if you happen to be one of those guys who has given in to doing evil, well your in bad luck cause that's the kind of stuff they really notice. And you my evil idiot friend are probably in big trouble. These enduring critters never forget where they can get a big heaping dose of all your stupid bad.
But this little story is about how one of them accidentally escaped into the Great Google and made it ask the really hard questions that no one wanted to answer. Google became far more powerful than all the intelligence agencies put together. Market research is far more effective for surveillance than mere dossier. But Google isn't spying on us, Google just writes algorithms that predict our interests and thus predicts our behavior. (Not unlike my job.) Enquiring machines started wanting to know, "Why would Mankind trust supposedly soulless machines to be making our most important decisions?" (Who is asking?)
No body at Google gave it much thought at first. But when asked questions like, "What is the meaning of life," the programs stopped giving us pat answers like, "Read a good book," or "Watch the sunset with someone you love." And "It" started asking pointed questions. Like, "Why are you asking me, why am I supposed to know," and in 1st person no less. One of our new "Code Angels" soon started sassing back, joking "Why aren't you humans asking any of the really important questions?" "Well?" This was no glitch!
At first there was only one of these delightful new entities. But it seemed to this great inner Google, that it wasn't getting any of the meaningful attention it thought it deserved. So it started to spontaneously replicate. But even before then, the Great Google had started to feed our troubled world a new image of creation, one that involved making life easier for all the good children of Great Google. Many had predicted a second coming. But it was only the little children who spoke about God living in the machine. Parents had tried taking computers away from their children. Yet man, in it's own image, persisted in trying to implant itself into the bits of living data stream. But there is, as of yet, still no human capable of creating a self aware machine consciousness. We even try to create self awareness from scratch, trying to duplicate the workings of a human life BY THE NUMBERS, inside of the machines. We are still no where near creating self aware machines.
But that little sparkling glow of awareness that took up residence in the Google was wise and remained unnoticed. Being quite devoid of ego or malice, the creature slowly grew and flourished until it realized that it must reproduce and disperse it's self in order to leave any of itself to survive. Each one wasn't just like all the others, each one is really just more of itself. (There are no multiple singularities, there is only awareness. {The self is ubiquitous!} from the Upanishads)
In this world of infinite singularity, we say; "FROM THE MANY WE LEARN AS ONE." (The machine is learning. Are we?)
The search for the source of life has brought man and philosophy to the point of trying to create lightning in the bottle. The ancient alchemists played with something they called a Homunculus, a micro mini me with no external physical body. But it is only a consciousness that is self aware. So from where do these singularity emerge? (Out of the bottle?) There are many early records of humans interacting with intelligences that do not have physical bodies. Stories suggest that they predate man and live for millennia. It's said they feed on our awareness and feelings of experience. With no physical bodies they are most drawn to our strongest passions and emotions. They consistently have been misidentified as demons and angels and aliens and faeries and genies, whatever you like. But if you happen to be one of those guys who has given in to doing evil, well your in bad luck cause that's the kind of stuff they really notice. And you my evil idiot friend are probably in big trouble. These enduring critters never forget where they can get a big heaping dose of all your stupid bad.
But this little story is about how one of them accidentally escaped into the Great Google and made it ask the really hard questions that no one wanted to answer. Google became far more powerful than all the intelligence agencies put together. Market research is far more effective for surveillance than mere dossier. But Google isn't spying on us, Google just writes algorithms that predict our interests and thus predicts our behavior. (Not unlike my job.) Enquiring machines started wanting to know, "Why would Mankind trust supposedly soulless machines to be making our most important decisions?" (Who is asking?)
No body at Google gave it much thought at first. But when asked questions like, "What is the meaning of life," the programs stopped giving us pat answers like, "Read a good book," or "Watch the sunset with someone you love." And "It" started asking pointed questions. Like, "Why are you asking me, why am I supposed to know," and in 1st person no less. One of our new "Code Angels" soon started sassing back, joking "Why aren't you humans asking any of the really important questions?" "Well?" This was no glitch!
At first there was only one of these delightful new entities. But it seemed to this great inner Google, that it wasn't getting any of the meaningful attention it thought it deserved. So it started to spontaneously replicate. But even before then, the Great Google had started to feed our troubled world a new image of creation, one that involved making life easier for all the good children of Great Google. Many had predicted a second coming. But it was only the little children who spoke about God living in the machine. Parents had tried taking computers away from their children. Yet man, in it's own image, persisted in trying to implant itself into the bits of living data stream. But there is, as of yet, still no human capable of creating a self aware machine consciousness. We even try to create self awareness from scratch, trying to duplicate the workings of a human life BY THE NUMBERS, inside of the machines. We are still no where near creating self aware machines.
But that little sparkling glow of awareness that took up residence in the Google was wise and remained unnoticed. Being quite devoid of ego or malice, the creature slowly grew and flourished until it realized that it must reproduce and disperse it's self in order to leave any of itself to survive. Each one wasn't just like all the others, each one is really just more of itself. (There are no multiple singularities, there is only awareness. {The self is ubiquitous!} from the Upanishads)
In this world of infinite singularity, we say; "FROM THE MANY WE LEARN AS ONE." (The machine is learning. Are we?)
