tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86452732244112736352024-03-13T07:33:11.636-07:00mind evolving gary e. davis berkeley<a href="http://coherings.blogspot.com">gary e. davis</a>gary e. davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876167242748081399noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645273224411273635.post-56418396423933405552022-05-07T14:24:00.003-07:002022-05-07T14:25:55.625-07:00another lovely cohering<font color="#0e0b6b"><hr><br>
“<a href="https://erealism.blogspot.com/2004/09/beginning.html">There’s no perfect beginning</a>.” “<a href="https://coherings.blogspot.com/2004/09/everythings-preface_01.html">Everything’s a preface</a>.”
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Now, 18 years later, in light of fortunately many <a href="https://cohering.net/ca3/cp01.html">entralled times</a> of <a href="https://gary-e-davis.blogspot.com/p/creative.html">a creative life</a>,<br />
I’m <a href="https://coherings.blogspot.com/2022/04/cohering.html">being as flouishive</a> as ever (<a href="https://gedavis.com/bt/dgb01/007dgb.html">beyond tragedy</a>) with <a href="https://american-earthling.blogspot.com/2022/01/memo.html">humility toward the gods</a>.
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<hr></font>gary e. davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876167242748081399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645273224411273635.post-24969849296112384382018-12-06T12:02:00.000-08:002019-12-30T13:02:29.479-08:00as if It Is, to be known<font color="#0e0b6b"><hr><br>
I'm glad to see this article, “<a href="https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/04/hidden-signals-the-next-big-discovery-about-our-cosmos/">NASA Scientist: 'We May Have Missed Signals from Aliens Capable of Interstellar Travel</a>,’”especially since it's sponsored by S.E.T.I.<br />
I wrote to Seth Shostak (lead astronomer for SETI) recently that he shouldn't be so dismissive of unexplained Unidentified Aerial Phenomena ("UFO"s), as he has been. He didn't reply. I look forward to reading the Ames/SETI discussion that is referenced.
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If there are vast differences in the technologies of The Other and ourselves, there would be no discernible relationship between “intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us.” What finds us would recognize that It isn’t to be found yet.
<br /><br /><a name='more'></a>So, the “natural” result might be to prompt us to look for what we’re not yet looking for. Our appreciation <i>that</i> there are Other entities here would be a milestone comparable to Edwin Hubble’s neo-Copernican discovery that “the Universe” of pre-1923 was merely an “island universe” among countless galaxies. In other words, if there are entities <i>here</i>, that will not be understood by searching out <i>there</i> (and which anyway aren’t to be captured here—as I note in a little detail below).
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“Are you <i>ready</i> to know what it is to not be Alone?—to know that there are entities millions of years beyond you that are very aware of you?”
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And the speed of light might not be an ultimate barrier: We write about <a href="https://dailygalaxy.com/2018/12/astonishing-new-theory-dark-matter-dark-energy-are-a-fluid/">Dark Energy/Matter as if being <i>in</i> space-time</a>, but actually DE/M is outside of space-time as we know it. It’s affecting space-time itself. Gravitational waves are showing energies <i>in</i> which space-time exists (i.e., DE/M is perpendicular to space-time itself, in a realm of being that is <i>all</i> of that).
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Communicability outside of space-time could provide relatively immediate linkages between entities within space-time. That is, a probe sent out a hundred thousand years ago that is here may be available to the sender as readily as something in space-time is available to us a year away.
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So, Colombano (the SETI article author quoted in the <i>Daily Galaxy</i> article) is understating his observation that “we need to re-visit even our most cherished assumptions.”
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Indeed, “the size of the ‘explorer’ might be that of an extremely tiny super-intelligent entity,” a point I coyly <a href="http://cohering.net/re/0144astro.html">prospected 12 years ago</a>. It’s not great extrapolation of our own technological evolution that computational miniaturization will soon yield robots as tiny as flies, and as uncapturable as a hummingbird.
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If an axial synthetic intelligence (that manages terrestrial entities) was stationed at a Lagrange Point, we wouldn’t detect It (being technologically far beyond our capacity to be radar immune), if It regarded detection as dangerous.
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And think of how an octopus can camouflage its presence. Extrapolate that to body-shape plasticity. We accept “morphing’ in computer animation. Why can’t an entity look like a tree branch?
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And the synthetic forest of branches could be planetary, and simultaneously present in Itself.
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Of course, this is silliness. But it’s physically feasible. And it’s <i>Our</i> legacy to seek to do whatever is physically feasible that is scientifically promising.
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Synthetic intelligence that is millions of years beyond us would exist because existence remains interesting. That may be the ultimate meaning of “life”: to keep existence interesting, as the galaxies speed away from each other, with perhaps many intelligences connected outside of space-time, a web in the DE/M fluidity.
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Before writing the above, I wrote something that I thought I should abandon. Now, in effect, it’s a little prologue that’s <i>antedated</i> by what’s above. So, I might as well attach it:
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Carbon-based life here is well on the way to becoming a tightly integrated singularity through hyper-efficient communications technology such that the superintelligence that emerges will be massively distributed in the form of life that we are. At the same time, the exponential evolution of specialized A.I. will become so integrated with robotics that we might well regard leading humanity as becoming a single biotechnological organism. In short, the difference between massively distributed bio-intelligence (“superintelligence”) and synthetic intelligence (i.e., dissolution of the A.I./robotics separation) will make excursions to other star systems post-bionic extensions of our planetary Singularity. That is, thinking of life spans becomes irrelevant. Waves of probes sent out over thousands of years may result in a continuous feedback process, endlessly. Planetary intelligence may lose a clear distinction between planetary self-presence and exploratory self-presence. “Robotic” parts of Ourself may becoming circulating aspects of countless excursions in other star systems.
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<hr></font>gary e. davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876167242748081399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645273224411273635.post-37280220152635191922017-07-18T20:05:00.003-07:002022-05-31T13:18:44.647-07:00Galactic Silence as Intended<hr />
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I want to link to all such reveries from one spot.
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<li><span style="color: #0e0b6b;">2006: "<a href="http://cohering.net/re/0144astro.html">astrobiological society</a>”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0e0b6b;">2013: "<a href="http://ourevolving.blogspot.com/2013/11/contact-competence-with-absolute-others.html">contact competence with Absolute Others</a>"</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0e0b6b;">2016: “<a href="http://gedavis.com/fm/beings.html">beings there?</a>”</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0e0b6b;">2017: <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-detect-strange-signals-from-red-dwarf-star/">Days go by…</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0e0b6b;">2022: <a href="https://american-earthling.blogspot.com/2022/01/memo.html">memo to unresponsive gods</a></span></li>
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<hr />gary e. davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876167242748081399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645273224411273635.post-68139892325004318772017-06-20T18:00:00.000-07:002017-07-18T20:38:22.827-07:00a blog, whatever...<font color="#0e0b6b"><hr><br>
“Mind evolving” means whatever you choose. <em>I</em> choose to keep the meaning open.<br />
This blog title (attached to a URL created over 12 years ago) has no <em>given</em> meaning, other than the ordinariness of “mind” (the quote marks are important) and the nebulousness of “evolving.” So, I have a blog with that title, <em>whatever</em> it’s made<br />
to mean. <br><br><a name='more'></a>Basically, I have an unused blog now—“<em>new</em>,” except for a couple of 2007-era postings left here—a blank slate with a name, like anything has a name: “Gary,” nebulous to others (maybe)—a mystery to me <em>still</em>, after many decades. <br><br>
<em>So</em> what. A new day is a new day. A canvas a canvas. Et cetera. <br><br>
The name, then, emblemizes a genealogical background that’s unspoken, intangible, and implying (I stipulate) an era of self development over some years that brings me to now, <em>however</em> that’s been lived. The “spirit” of the notion—“mind evolving”—is a nebulously available emergence (a “spirit”) of a cohering from <a href="http://mindevolving.blogspot.com/2017/06/years.html">92 available postings</a> (if someone read all of those) now being left to their time.
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Next: “<a href="http://cohering.net/evo/me020.html">genealogy of ‘mind’</a>” as part 2 of the “<a href="http://cohering.net/evo/mindhome.html">summer 2017</a>” set for the “mind evolving” Area of <i>cohering.net</i>.
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<hr></font>gary e. davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876167242748081399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645273224411273635.post-6052068301478388962017-06-19T12:35:00.000-07:002017-07-18T19:06:02.947-07:002004 — June, 2017<font color="#0e0b6b"><hr><br>
This blog (“me” hereafter) began in mid-October, 2004, was very active for about five years, trailed off in frequency of postings, stopped in 2010, then got a couple of updates in 2014.
<br /><br /><a name='more'></a>June 2017, I routed most all of the earlier “me” postings to other blogs, but many “me” postings were archived as outdated (about Middle East events of those times).
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67 postings were routed to “our evolving.” All “oe” postings <a href="http://ourevolving.blogspot.com">prior to Dec. 2010</a> are from “me.”
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19 postings were routed to “discurive living.” All “dl” postings from <a href="http://discursive-living.blogspot.com">2010 and earlier</a> are from “me.”
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Three postings were routed to “<a href="http://erealism.blogspot.com">conceptual prospecting</a>”: Jan. 15 and July 1, 2008; and Dec. 27, 2010.
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One posting was routed to “<a href="http://coherings.blogspot.com">life world</a>”: Aug. 20, 2006
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Two postings from 2007 remain here. Forty-two were archived.
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<hr></font>gary e. davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876167242748081399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645273224411273635.post-68621989381818660952007-10-14T13:47:00.001-07:002022-05-07T12:48:47.522-07:00aspiring to hyperhumanity is integralfor our nature<hr><font color="#0e0b6b"><br />Today, it's reported that researchers have identified a new batch of <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-uGyW1Q1MeMRE5tWnVvYmFxYUU">genes that slow the aging process</a>. This may not seem to be news, but it's a reminder that the aspiration for immortality is becoming Big Science.
<br /><br /> By the way, recalling that Darwin wrote "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke" (<i>Notebook M</i>, 1838; quoted in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226102440/"><i>Baboon Metaphysics</i></a>), today's research is about genes <i>shared by worms and humans</i>.
<br /><br /> More primordially still, this week's <i>Science</i> presents the complete genome of a species of algae that specifies <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1143609">eukaryotic functions shared by plants and animals</a>. This kind of research into biomechanics has importance for aspirations to design artificial life, as well as for <a href="http://cohering.net/re/0144astro.html ">astrobiological venturing</a>. Given the increasing liklihood that life begins easily and easily evolves to higher forms—relatively <i>quickly</i>—doing bioglyphics outstrips metaphysical pretense (that history of conceptualist mythics) scientifically, as <i>real</i> bio-ontology or biontology. <br /><br /><hr></font>gary e. davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09876167242748081399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645273224411273635.post-65167072910587550982007-09-23T23:07:00.000-07:002017-06-14T23:08:44.079-07:00beach party and clam bake news<font color="#0e0b6b"><hr><br>
A report in today's <i>Nature</i> indicates that 164,000 years ago (far earlier than scientists had supposed), people on a coastal cliff overlooking the Indian Ocean in far-southern Africa cooked shellfish and used make-up. "Shellfish were among the last additions to the human diet before the debut of domesticated plants and animals, [the lead researcher] said. Early hunter-gatherer relatives of modern humans for millions of years dined on only land plants and animals, <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-uGyW1Q1MeMQkhYRFp2a0ZYb0k">the scientists said</a>."
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For millions of years! <i>That's</i> what's so amazing (old news anewly surprising to re-realize). For <i>millions</i> of years, our species didn't figure much out. <i>Homo</i> had been around for millions of years—<i>millions and millions</i> of years—then <i>whomp!</i>—relatively <i>suddenly</i>—we mind-bogglingly accelerate to become a planetary communications organon self-formatively accelerating, lonely hearts of the cosmos.
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