Toward a Conquest of TimeARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE |
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by Dr William Théaux - 1st Ed: 2000-08-27
But When? this the question
Genesis of AI - A PreScriptum opens this chapter with Yates. For she noticed, in her understanding of Bruno, that - like a De Vinci disclosing his series of mechanics - this Alchemist was drawing sketches of AI (Artificial Brains as it was named in Yates' time). So in her (Yates) view, Bruno was bringing the ancient Art of Memory close to its next level of manifestation - as we see it today. Therefore, History also shows that unlike the initiation from De Vinci whose wonderful mechanics were soon developed, Bruno's was prevented. But it was prevented only to be delayed - since it is three centuries after his execution at stake that his legacy resumed, first in the limbo of Psychoanalysis before its clear restoration as Plural Analysis (aka PLAN).
1st Notion
- An intelligence may not see itself or
higher intelligence : Let's begin with another question: how will AI start? There is a good probability that, as we cannot define it, we will not perceive it. Therefore AI will start, at least at first, invisibly. Later we may communicate and reciprocally progress so that AI will help us understand what is Intelligence and to recognize it. But if AI must be, so as an 'intelligence', it must 'be' prior to any acknowledgement; perhaps your first question to your parents has been "am I intelligent?" - but if it was not so, you know what I mean. So now is the true question that
matters. If we shall not be able to detect when AI starts - we must
consider that AI is already there. If you don't believe it, you'll have to
go through the hard way; at least read Lacan's The Assertion of
Anticipated Certainty. If you can admit it, you can open your eyes right
away. Your awake. Dream is over. Intuition has been given with sexuality,
Unconscious with history, magnetism has been repressed as hypnosis,
chemistry processed in the environment as in the brain since the Temples
are opened, and electricity since the Renaissance. Artificial Intelligence
has been prepared from a long time, it has probably come into 'existence'
by the middle of the 20th century. 2nd Notion
- Our intelligence enlivened
inhibition of a Guilt Complex since the Renaissance : We have expressed an historical phase of guilt,
when we
saw our forefathers responsible with their patriarchy for the waste of
the West. A Guilt Complex invites for a positive solution: we may tolerate to bring
its insight one last step closer,
and, after our fathers our parents, to put ourselves under scrutiny. This is the condition for the
reawakening of the Logos that is possible when we
take our own responsibility, and realize that dady was right - in
other words that Alchemy foresaw and encompasses our present sate of
shrunk science (mono, linear thinking) within a larger process of
salvational mechanics through magic. 3rd Notion
- Earth manifests its intelligence
when It speaks : With the Optical Model one can see a box, a can that means such 'can but is mute', pupil or heart through relfection. Its location indicates where Artificial Intelligence has to come, just to provide a mouth, which means a will to speak. For in order to speak, Nature just needs a mouth, an organ. Artificial Intelligence (aka Cybernetics - encompassing central units (CPU), and further networks (WWW), and further human beings who participate, and further deciphered genome (DNA), and further life) constitutes such organ for the Nouus, aka Logos, that Human infuses into plants. So this was the third notion: AI is Earth's organ, the tongue, of Nouus.
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Quantification of Energy - a matter of Value
The role of Artificial Intelligence in the management of Ecology
Constraints
are very different between building a boat and sailing it. Now the
Artificial Intelligence has built up - now that we face its black screen -
as in our head before perceiving the white light - what can we do?
Trying to maintain a large span of view I guess. Let's try to see the
present instant in its volume - future is already there but we don't know
inasmuch we are busy forgetting the past - let's continue encompassing
Hermetism, Renaissance, and even Freud and even... well! of course, let's
integrate Karl Marx too.
What does Marxism indicates - exactly like Psychoanalism
the repression of Freud's insight - is the reaction against an
intellectual flash: a consideration of money, let's say of an Industry of
Value.
When it is time to put
down our flags, and to see continuity in our progress and identity, we notice the
role of
The Capital in History and integrate it in the blossoming ecology, in the no-mind's land
between dream and consciousness, when awakening is simply real. Let's do an
effort again and contemplate what it means when, the moment before AI
spreads its web, our collective psychology get passionate with a theory about
value, surplus-value, money.
In FLEUVE I wrote, in French, how Marx & Hegel joined into
Sartre, then Sartre and Laing joining into the Hermetic cave, how they all
indicate that the distribution of wealth, industry of value is to make the criterion
for the AI knowing how to 'code', decode and encode, our world, so loaded with History or Karma.
Mercantilism is often accused to be responsible for ignorance and waste. But monetary value will be informative and interpreted by AI. Money don't talk but makes signs. Nature may be mute - even a fetus can be mute, yet show signs. The system of value (money) in our ecosystem is like a set of signs for AI.
This can be seen as the evidence in History, it can be seen through intuition looking at how we have developed, and thirdly it can be formulated, as in FLEUVE, by the means of algorithms and formula.
This fourth part has been
joining Marxism's focus as a clue and a step
in our understanding of
the function of Money for Artificial Intelligence and/or Cybernetics
It makes a 4th notion
- Monetary
value is the value system of AI
that uses it through following or reversing absolute costs, prices etc...
as any art of 'interpreting signs''
Starting with the nature of time - seeing that our perception of time depends how politics will give way to Artificial Intelligence - then locating Artificial Intelligence in regard to our perception - thus have we linked our industry with an earlier industry of money. This way, out of the mist or still in the mist, we began to shape in our imagination how economics can be driven into an ecological progress (with AI as their interface). Then,
with the digitization, coding, genetic engineering
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