<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 6:02 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
How much thought has been given to operating systems for fog?<br>
I can't see controlling foglets directly with my mind!<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can. My patent <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US6487454B1/en">https://patents.google.com/patent/US6487454B1/en</a> was not written primarily for uploaded architecture, but can suggest the start of a fog OS. The operating principle is that you envision the result, and let the foglets handle how to pull it off, especially for any shapes where they already know how. (Guidance may be needed for substantially new shapes.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The division of our brains into lobes presumably limits long-range <br>
neuronal links, and I wonder whether that limitation helps us. <br>
Uploading into a "flat space", in which such speedbumps are erased, is <br>
one way to make a mind not fit into the old mold.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Then upload into multiple connected flat spaces to preserve such limits, at least at first while the potential for downloading is still desired. Optimizing for what one has become (into a single flat space) can come later, when (and, in some cases, if ever) one is willing to let go of the past in this manner.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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