[NetBehaviour] Ape Brain Narcissism Misses the Singularity: An Artificial Life View.

marc garrett marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Fri Jul 31 16:11:39 CEST 2009


Ape Brain Narcissism Misses the Singularity: An Artificial Life View.

Written By: Tom Barbalet.

"Since 2005, I have been the editor of Biota.org. The site brings
together a number of simulation authors, academics and users broadly
described as the artificial life community. Artificial life offers an
applied philosophy through computation. There are a number of
fascinating problems ideally suited to the kinds of applied philosophy
artificial life explores. One of my favorites relates to the
intelligence of vastly complex systems.

For more than a decade the artificial life community has developed
metrics for computer power, complex systems intelligence and a broader
metaphysics that is distinctly different from what we hear from most
advocates of "The Singularity movement." When contrasted with
theoretical Singularity works like Nick Bostrom's "Are We Living In A
Computer Simulation," artificial life challenges Singularity thinking in
a number of ways. I would like to offer two particular challenges."

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