[ExI] RES: More Advanced Extraterrestrials

[John Clark]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:39 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > think about the effects of speeding up your brain processing by
> possibly thousands of times.  You are trapped in an unchanging physical
> world.


I don't think that would be a problem, there is nothing objectively special
about the time scale of minutes and seconds,  humans are interested in
things that happen during that time span because it just happens to be be a
good match with the speed of their mind. But lots of interesting things
happen on the  Femtosecond   (10^-15 sec) level, when a photon of light
hits a receptor pigment in your eye it takes about 320 Femtoseconds for
that protein to finish changing it's shape. And a Femtosecond  is a
entirety compared to the Planck time of 10^-44 seconds. Besides, there
would be other AIs to talk to and their minds would work as fast as yours
does.

But there may be other problems. As the AI gets smarter it will of course
gain greater control over the external world, but they may also gain
greater control over their inner world, including their emotional lives. So
maybe the solution to Fermi's paradox is simply that everybody would like
to be a little happier if they could and complex systems generally don't do
well in positive feedback loops.

  John K Clark






the average chemical reaction takes about 1/5 of a Attosecond



> If you decide to send
> out a probe, then first it takes the equivalent of thousands of years
> (brain time) to build it and then you have to watch it while it takes
> thousands of years (brain time) to move about a yard.
>
> High speed AIs must rely on virtual reality for change and
> stimulation. In effect, they leave the physical world and exist in a
> world that moves at the same speed as their AI processing.
>
>
> BillK
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