Re: From chaos to minds

From: Durant Schoon (durant@ilm.com)
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 11:30:19 MST


> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:27:47 -0500
> From: Gordon Worley <redbird@rbisland.cx>
>
> What I am proposing is that the end result of minds will always be
> the same thing. I agree that there may be gravityminds and the like
> along the say to the paragon mind, but there will be only one kind of
> paragon mind.

Here's a link to an interesting (IMHO) article by Minsky relating to
convergent intelligences, ie. why intelligences would follow the same
direction:

http://www.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/AlienIntelligence.html

There is also Richard Dawkin's claim (paraphrasing) that: "If life were
to evolve on another planet, it would evolve by Darwinian evolution
(the kind we've seen on Earth)." -- This is probably not worth
speculating about since there aren't any really good contenders to the
theory that I've seen, but interesting to ponder, none-the-less.

--
Durant
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