[ExI] mbrains and latency

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] mbrains and latency

 

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 1:17 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

Keith I don’t think I ever responded to your comment on latency in Mbrains.

If MBrain nodes do some kind of calculation, they could still be very small and resemble dust.  If created by a nanotech enabled species, a dust-sized speck of carbon can be imagined capable of some form of calculation and capable of passing the results of that calculation to its neighbor, which might be a millimeter distant. 

>…Latency is still a problem.  Even with nearest neighbors at millimeter distance, farthest neighbors are on the other side of the star…

 

Ja, Mike what I meant is that in this model it doesn’t matter that some of the nodes are on the other side of the star because the node doesn’t communicate with them.  They are part of a different and far distant MSociety.

 

In the model I am imagining, a node communicates directly only with the few trillion other nodes within about a light microsecond.  Those few trillion do a higher level something, then pass a higher level signals to an adjacent but relatively distant MSociety, perhaps a light millisecond out there.

 

The interchange between MSocieties would be a more shaped signal, a cultural exchange of sorts, loosely analogous to Americans listening to K-pop on the radio, while the Koreans listen to… em… well… anything but that horrifying American rap (sheesh, mercy, who ordered THAT?)

 

With a bunch of orbiting MSocieties, each made of dust-sized nodes, we can imagine a star’s light dipping the way Abby’s and her neighbors are doing.  We need not be too hasty to dismiss a tech explanation for that light signal.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

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