Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism

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by rockstar9 • 18 years ago

7 4 18 years ago

The superorganism isn't just wired-up computers; computers are merely tools, input machines of humans.

The superorganism as it is headed today is the collection of _people_ coordinated in a far faster and more informed manner than every before. It's nothing new; the State (a pretty old idea) represents a superorganism already. Glance at the cover of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan".

markessien• 18 years ago

Well, in a sense, he is correct. But the global organism is a very dumb one - it's like an amoeba. Each individual part wants to survive, and so the entire thing survives. But there is real communication between the parts of the organism, so it's very basic.

albertcardona• 18 years ago

Wires and radio waves? You've got to be kidding me. The global superorganism exists already as the interconnection of all ecosystems on Earth, which includes both living systems and the long, slow cycles of minerals from oceans to land and atmosphere and back. Check the books from Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis, and from James Lovelock, on the subject.

seemann• 18 years ago

The question is not whether is evolves, but when and how it shows up and who will (try to) control it, and if not, will we survive and if how will it change our life and alter out conscience. I believe we won't survive: Because we are to much monkey and therefore to egoistic. Why?

Let's start with the money: Money is virtual, limited and interchangeable against everything. Money prevents you from bad emotions and death, and lets you strive even if the basics are satisfied. Money make people work. Money is energy. In a free market money helps people specialize on one task and trade tasks. Money trades emotions. Money also helps to simulate emotions and create desires.

Take a given 1.world democracy: at least 50 % of the money(and work) is used for this simulation: You take 8 hours of your brain's calculation time and simulate needs for others based on your programming(common culture and socialisation). The more intelligent you are, the higher the level of abstraction and the multiplicator of your work - the higher your income and evolutionary power.

The biggest multiplicator is the use of machines and especially computers. So the more realistic(output and input device to all our senses) and more fitting the simluation (a personlized semantic map) the better are the simulated emotions and the payoff for the group or individual working applying the new device.

So it's egoistic: Getting more emotions trough simulating and manipulating multiple other emotions. This is status quo. But it is controlled: Having a democracy people on average wont suffer because the means of media and internet would spread the fright of this harm and people would vote for a different system. Also people on top have the same emotional brain and need a certain happiness in their state to get the feel of power which actually controls them. But I believe this power feeling is a unlimited emotional vector which has never run through the evolutionary need of dealing with AI.

So the CEO's of big imformation-companies and the chefs of the money system(who are using human brains) want to exceed their power trough adding AI to their multiplicator system and keeping track on monopolizing it so that the simulation is even more congruent - more emotions + less risk of the election of a new system.(fox media, "el goog", financial crash etc).

So money is pumped into this new simulations system. For computers and machines money is also energy, calculation time to gather, store and render as much personal information about every users and build a individual semantic map. But to use this map "el Goog" must understand and simulated the brain or a least the semantic engine of any human and translate back into it . It will even use speech and visual symbols. In the end one won't know what is simulated and which party are real, they will be woven in each other.

From this point the system(or super organism) has total control and the democratic system is obsolete because all communicated information is filter and spread only selectiv.

How long does the system need us? As long as it has no mechanical excess to energy, to rebuild machines that reproduce itself and until it can simulation itself, including the brains of all important people who control the function of it. From this moment it will have as a side effect ,per definition, conscience.

Later we will be only be a risk for the super organism, so why keep us?

But wait, if you are important and have work on the organism, then it is likely that you and your whole world will be simulated on it just as our parents and important people of our childhood are simulated in us ;) The offside is that the unimportant people will suffer 2 "deaths", one in realty and one cause they don't need to simulated anymore.

Hope there are responsible people controlling science! Thanks for reading!

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