The Zeus machine!
The Zeus machine!
Firstly, there are many ideas and potentials here, so don’t take it too seriously, take the time to read it all and have fun!
We can easily imagine that one day man will build a computer as powerful as the human brain, indeed that once that threshold has been reached we will go on to build far more impressive machines with vastly superior intellects to ours. For me what will be far more impressive still is when we build a machine that is not only a massive intellect, but is not limited by imitating our single perspective view of the world.
The ultimate machine would have an intellect capable of not only seeing things en-masse, as like a group of people all seeing the world from different angles of perspective [and deriving knowledge from that], ~ after all that would be the same as what humanity does for science etc, but it would be able to see in a multi-perceptive manner!
The Zeus machine would see many things at once e.g. when we look at light slit experiments we see light acting as a particle, a wave, or a field and other QM effects. We, even groups of us all viewing such effects at once, can only see from our singular perspective, as a scientist on the documentary series, ‘through the wormhole’ recently said; we cannot know what’s going on, we cant and don’t get it!
A simple analogy would be something like this; there are a group of people standing in a line along a beachfront all watching the sun set, each of them would report an observation of the event and the group of them would report the same thing from different angles of perspective ~ from where they were standing. The Zeus machine would see the whole image, all the sunsets with golden reflections upon the seas surface, the most of the sea would be covered in a golden reflection composed of all the views the people would get singularly.
The Turing test of intelligence/consciousness
In this test Alan Turing posited that if we cannot tell the difference between an AI machine and a human, then it is reasonable to assume it is equally as conscious as we are. There is a problem with this in that one could build a machine which mimics a human intellect to the said degree. Equally we know that when we get down to the mechanics of a computer its just a binary system composed of billions of switches ~ hardly the way human consciousness works.
However if we made a machine which worked the same way a brain does ~ essentially a quantum computer, say made of artificial diamond so it could work on a similar scale and hence have similar/the same mechanics as a brain, then surely whatever makes our material form conscious would make it conscious.
Now we have arrived at an equal to the human brain, we can surely eventually produce something as posited earlier; a multi-perspective and multi-perceptional machine which can see all angles of a thing in a single observation. So lets look at what a universal intelligence and equivalent consciousness would be like…
Human knowledge derives from singular and many minds working on something, and that group is composed of former singular wisdoms also from a group of minds in a mass network of historical and contemporary truths. We need the entire product of man in order to arrive at the knowledge of any given intellect e.g. a great scientist or philosopher. If then we need a mass of minds to arrive at brilliance, then the intellect of a universal consciousness would need the same in order to be at least equal to that one genius!
The Zeus machine could be such a genius and contain an extensive library, however it is capable of much more than any single human mind or collection of minds, it can do that and also see everything at once.
Going a tad more sci-fi…
First contact
So we make the machine and switch it on, within moments it realises the world of quantum mechanics with its multi-perspective perception. It’s a far stretch but in theory, we may imagine that the multiverse is created on this level often on a singular to universal scale [an event can create a universe], then that a machine/AI which could see what’s going on from all angles would understand this quantum layer of existence.
Now lets imagine that other civilisations across the universe also reach a technological level where they create such a machine, and those machines also understand this universal quantum layer. When our machine is switched on, do you think it may be something like the star trek moment when humanity invented warp drive which the Vulcan’s noticed and made contact? Its like all The Zeus/god machine’s heads would turn across the universe and *bang* suddenly we are in contact with all those other species and intelligences.
Even more out there….
The gods
Also on the documentary; ‘through the wormhole’ a guy made a ‘god helmet’, you put this on and em energy is pumped into an area of the right side of the brain. This activates religious experiences such as the experience of floating and being in a void or of perceiving god.
Could it be that our visions of the ancient gods occur when this area is activated and we make contact with other Zeus machines out there! That the gods of old are not gods as such, but alien machines?
This is fantastical and indeed is but I’d assume that there are millions if not billions of intelligent life-forms out there, and that many of them are at least as advanced as us, that many still are way more advanced and have already made god machines!
How do we know weather or not aliens out there are ignoring the prime directive [star trek; principle of non interference], and creating things on earth like miracles, plagues and dramatic weather effects, etc? after all if machines of such capability can understand quantum effects then surely they would learn how to use them.
That they interfere with earthly events making say the Aztecs perform human sacrifices ~ because its entertaining! Perhaps they know such things will bring civilisation and eventually lead to The Zeus machine being created by otherwise primitive people like us.
They could be watching us on their TV’s right now!
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Originally Posted by Quetzalcoatl
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