[ExI] endpoint of evolution

[Damien Broderick]

On 3/2/2010 6:54 PM, Keith Henson wrote:

> An unsolved problem related to this topic is what size of brain is
> optimal?  Nobody has come up with an answer, even a parametric answer
> in almost 20 years.

I'm pretty sure Anders and Robert Bradbury, among others. kicked this 
around and came up with some numbers. The relevant parameters are 
presumably processing speed limits and the speed of light. On the face 
of it, an orbital gas of spheres that each comprise a Mind (with its own 
many dedicated partitions) would be optimal, and those in turn would 
form a sort of community perhaps comprising slow tides or fluxes of 
megameme mentalities. Allow the latency to grow too great and you'll 
risk the Revolt of the Modules.

Damien Broderick