[extropy-chat] when will computers improve?

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 29 22:54:14 UTC 2003


--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Kevin Freels wrote:
> 
> > As far as uploading and Windows are concerned, how would an
> operating system
> > for an upload work? Would "you" be the OS, would the OS run "you",
> or would
> > we do away with the entire concept of an OS altogether?
> 
> It would seem there is some form of an O.S. in place already.
> You have I/O mechanisms and something has to decide what
> has the priority to access and manage them.
> 
> I would imagine that consciousness perhaps takes over the
> software & hardware functions of setting priorities and
> conflict resolution.

Given the brain is a form of neural network, it is concievable that the
neuron clusters that deal with different I/O functions have their own
processes that manage their own I/O. The memory functions operate their
own, etc. while the conciousness is a network monitor. The phenomena of
I/O filtration and memory editing indicate that there are lots of
processes that the conciousness is not itself aware of and depends on
the reporting done by constituent 'work groups'.

=====
Mike Lorrey
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