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2143 - Evolution
in computational technology. Any
Universe that fails to evolve conscious life to comprehend its own existence
could not have existed in the first place. Nano-technology is rebuilding the world atom by
atom. Computational technology in inevitably
and rabidly overtaking the species that invented it.
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- Evolution in computational technology.
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- Any Universe that fails to evolve conscious
life to comprehend its own existence could not have existed in the first
place.
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- It was not until 10^-43 seconds after the
Big Bang birth of the Universe that the situation cooled sufficiently for the
force of gravity to take over. At 10^43
seconds the temperature cooled enough to allow the emergence of matter in the
forms of quarks and electrons.
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- At 10^-10 seconds the temperature cooled
enough for the electromagnetic and weak forces to come into effect. At 10^-5 seconds protons and neutrons were
formed.
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- Matter and anti-matter were annihilating each
other until, somehow, matter got a slight edge.
Matter exceeded to such a small degree, 1 part in 10 billion. But, that was enough for the protons to win
out over the anti-protons.
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- After 60 seconds matter began to form
hydrogen, helium and lithium. The
temperature had cooled to 1 billion degrees.
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- After 3,000 years of expanding and cooling
the temperature reached 3,000 degrees.
At that temperature atom nuclei could capture electrons and become a
neutral charge.
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- 2 billion years later these atoms formed
galaxies and stars. The heat still
created chaotic motion. The particles
were still in random motion.
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- The law of thermodynamics , called entropy,
states that in a closed system, entropy, or disorder, or randomness, always
increases. This is the same reason that
time only increases, only in one direction.
Time and entropy are always increasing in the Universe.
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- After those 2 billion years the chaos settled
enough to allow certain patterns of energy and matter to form. Energy and matter perpetuated themselves
and somehow survived the chaos.
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- Perpetuation continued reaching the evolutionary
process recorded in our DNA. We call it
life. Life is the DNA software on the CD that is in
the form of a long, six-foot, ribbon instead of a disk.
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- Homo-sapiens' DNA is not very different in than any of the other advanced
primates. It is 98.6% the same as the
lowland gorilla's. But, that 1.4%
difference is enough for me to type this Review for you.
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- The only way to find the limits of the
possible to is to go a little ways past the impossible.
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The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.
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- The speed and density of computation has been
doubling every three years. If your car
had done the same thing over the past 50 years,
your car would now cost one hundredth of a cent and travel faster than
the speed of light.
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- Things are more like they are now than they were
before.
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- As order increases over chaos, the time
period between salient events decreases.
Order is information that fits a purpose.
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Evolution has shown a trend towards greater
order resulting in greater complexity.
Evolution is not as closed system.
It takes place amidst great chaos and depends on the disorder from which
it draws its options for diversity.
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- Technology is a continuation of evolution by
other means. Technology evolution speeds
up because it builds on its own increasing order. This effect is multiplicative, not
additive. The technological resources
for evolution , order, and chaos are therefore unbounded.
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- The building of DNA and all organic stuff is
conducted atom by atom with chains of amino acids. The active part of the DNA code is only 23
megabytes of data. This is less than the
software for Microsoft Word processing that I am using.
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- We appear to start off in the womb with
similarities to a fish embryo. We progress
to an amphibian, then to a mammal. Both
appear to be like a nine month reenactment of evolution.
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- Computers are still a million times simpler
than the human brain. But, it will only
take a few decades for them to catch up.
Machine complexity are about comparable to insects today. They are robotically catching up.
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- When will computers exceed human intelligence. They will have the memory capacity and
computing speed in the next couple years.
There will be a new form of intelligence on the Earth. This could ultimately exceed human
intelligence. It could well be the
development of greater impact than any other event that has shaped human
history.
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- Intelligence is the ability to use optimally
limited resources , including time, to
achieve desired goals. It is not just being
better at solving problems as it is being better at deciding what problems are
worth solving.
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- Common
sense is not s simple thing. It is an
immense society of hard-earned practical ideas of life learned lessons, rules, and
exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, checks and balances. We express common sense and knowledge through
language like what I am typing and you are reading.
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- Quantum physics has the dreams that these
powerful computers are made of. The
power of quantum computing depends on the number of qu-bits that are linked
together. To do this computing we need
to find a large molecule that is specifically designed to hold large amounts of
information. Evolution has designed just such a molecule, DNA.
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We can map the brain's synapse. We can download our mind into our personal computers.
We can reverse engineer the neural implants
that provide memory, seeing, hearing, or reasoning.
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- We will soon have computers with the capacity
of the human brain.
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Nano-technology is rebuilding the world atom
by atom. Computational technology is inevitably
and rabidly overtaking the species that invented it. Keep inventing. It is the only way out of this mess.
- October 25, 2018. 10 > 360 >
2043 > The
"Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kuzwell in 1999.
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