<html><head></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="msd001@gmail.com" data-contactname="Mike Dougherty" class="clickable"><span title="msd001@gmail.com">Mike Dougherty</span><span class="detail"> <msd001@gmail.com></span></span> , 23/7/2014 10:55 PM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" title="mailto:anders@aleph.se" class="mailto">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:
<br>> So I think making the unconscious conscious is not the way to higher
<br>> intelligence. Quite the opposite. We might want more layers!
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<br>I wonder if this principle also speaks to the hive-mind of galactic
<br>superbrains when people assume that lightspeed communication somehow
<br>limits thinking. I'd assume that multi-layer controls would mitigate
<br>those delays in the same way semaphores (and other management tricks)
<br>enable multi-threaded operations to "merge" in a finished result in
<br>much less time than serial operations would complete.
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>The upper layers would be rather slow, but would set the goals and strategies for the more local and fast layers. A bit like a prefrontal thought (timescale seconds) leads to a motor plan (timescale around 0.3-0.5 seconds) that turns into a motor action (timescales around 0.1 seconds).</div><br><div><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;">*shrug* 'probably just result in a Marvin the Paranoid Android being a
<br>real thing.
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>We are already suffering from a bit of split personality this way anyway. High level "I" do not have much control over a lot of first-order desires (more food!) despite having second-order desires (keep waistline!) based on rational reasons. And there are plenty of reflex arcs that act entirely of their own without asking the brain for permission. </div><div><br></div>"I'm sorry my local mind forcibly dismantled your solar system before I could intervene; I sincerely respect the autonomy of all all intelligent life. Oh, by the way... this is me-galaxy-local. Please don't make a fuss that alerts me-supercluster-nonlocal. It has some odd notions I do not understand..."<div><br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University<div><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>