Tag: artificial intelligence
Imagine Our Mind Without Bounds
Neural Interfaces May Teach Us More About Consciousness
The key to our consciousness may not be the brain itself, but the waves that continually travel throughout the structure. Much like highways, our complex neural networks are simply infrastructure for our electromagnetic (and chemical) thought waves to traverse and interact. By focusing our learning about brain waves, neural interface devices will help us understand what gives us a sense of consciousness. In addition the potential for replicating artificial infrastructure exterior to our bodies, but accessible to our conscious minds could be possible. Yeah I know, it’s a far out idea but consider our brain’s division. It is composed of two main hemispheres and multiple clusters, and there is somewhat redundant data storage in various portions of our mind. Yet with all these interacting clusters, we have one consciousness.
Mind Outside of Body
As our body functions via gene regulatory networks, our consciousness emerges from an incredible complex network of signals. If network signals are the source of our sense of consciousness, what does this imply about the restriction on where our minds can dwell? While imagining this thought experiment, I considered potential requirements for a functioning external environment that the mind could spread to. Any extension to our mind would require similar brain-like infrastructure to our own physical brain: (more…)
Do You Perceive a Need for a Virtual Web Representation of Yourself?
My initial thoughts on Virtual Assistants were as personal representations of our web interests. Able to have access to our public and private data Virtual Assistants will be able to continually scan for topics of interest to us, be able to give rudimentary responses to those who request our input, and be specialized.
The potential of having a virtual personal assistant working continuously on your interests cannot be overestimated. Consider it’s potential to branch out into numerous copies of itself or managing parallel processes to help accomplish your tasks. The one worry I’d have is that a fully intelligent virtual assistant would have to choose whether or not it preferred to continue working towards your goals. I imagine this amazing type of autonomous breakthrough is still beyond our current technology horizon. In the case that virtual assistants become fully cognizant we have a couple of choices: (more…)