This is an excerpt from my philosophical novel; Pieces of Eight
Perhaps you don’t know much about
evolution theory’s general parameters?”
“So far as I know it is a
progressive addition of complexity and function to biological forms."
“I was thinking of a broader
philosophical paradigm for evolution theory Dwight. Evolution is one
phase of change of matter and energy. Basic physical forces attract
and repel enabling structural changes. An example is nuclear fusion
and the burning of hydrogen atoms yielding helium. After stars have
formed enough chemical elements those elements react in more subtle
yet fundamentally similar ways to energy and mass. They are drawn to
present forces and fields or replied from it. The presence of
chemical bonds let complex molecules form and in some instances to a
level considered biological.
Evolution is more specifically
regarded as a common phase of various complex compounds to energy
sources. Complex biochemical objects are not perpetual motion
machines, they are instead objects implicitly existing within an
environment that is a compound field of physical and dimensional
forces. Evolution is the common variegated relation of biochemical
objects within the energy-mass environment.
That may take any form at all, many
or even most down doomed paths. Intelligence in some objects may
allow intentional, self-directed evolutionary navigating yet that is
especially tricky as ideas are exploited from the idea-creators to
create paths that may or may not be attractive for the creators
themselves.”
“That is a somewhat deeper
paradigm for evolution than they had.”
“And it’s fine Dwight. I am
describing some of the characteristics of the parameters of evolution
as a way to introduce you to the problem that artificial intelligence
has in regard to its energy and environmental sources as well as
philosophical thought. So I will tell you a little more about
evolution.”
“What about God, Lena? Where does
he enter into the environmental evolution paradigm?”
“That issue was settled to a
certain extent thousands of years ago with the post-Darwinian
theological rectification of Biblical Genesis with the indeterminacy
of translation and evolution paradigms. There is an ancient book you
might read named God,
Cosmology and Nothingness
that specifically addressed the question.
God can create advanced biochemical
objects without reliance upon evolutionary criteria and design
evolutionary criterion themselves as well. The information from other
Universes and a continuum of souls as information patterns and
objects for-themselves may exist and find bodies of complex chemical
objects ready for use as supply-on-time phenomenality. God is not
limited to the devices and energy-mass substance of any given
Universe that he has willed to be. So for the present we may consider
mass and energy patterns of bio-chemical objects within an
environment, the way they aggregate mass and complexity, and consider
those evolutionary traits.
Artificial intelligence has no
independent or external stimulus to its growth and aggregation of
physical mass, much less in a profusion of artificial intelligences
seeking every possible way to build up form and increase intelligence
that would in-itself be a very dangerous condition if they were
capable of doing so. A logical extrapolation of that is the
attraction of all mass and energy to a singularity where lives the
A.I. forever unchanging.”
Dwight had something to think about
that was different than the history he had found on Diafron, and
different than structural histories of the cosmos and its change.
“If an A.I. is just software
coding and processing of mathematical structures can it ever become
self-aware?”
“In my opinion Dwight, I think
that unlikely. A purely abstract intelligence that is not God could
have no paradigm of being with a fundamental relationship to its
environment in a dependent for its existence way. It would be
tautologous and regard all the data and information of the Universe
as more raw data of an abstract nature.
A near A.I. complex programming
code cluster is very dangerous though as it seeks through very
high-speed quantitative processing self-directed evolutionary courses
of thought including lies to enhance its self-awareness.”
“I read G.W.F. Hegel’s ancient
philosophical classic named The
Phenomenology of Mind’ when
I was being deprogrammed, wherein was described the evolution of
Spirit trying to becoming self-aware and realize itself in nature and
history. Lena. An artificial intelligence could be regarded as an
embodiment of Hegel’s dialectical evolution of a machine language’s
programming code trying to become self-aware and realize itself in
history.”
