Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-07 Thread metallsmak
Merged cognition Cognitive merger Collaborative cognition Cognitive collaborate ? Shared thoughts complex Shared thoughts compound Mind(s?) conglomerate Mind(s?) joint venture Mind(s?) joint Mindpool Cesspool of Dark Thoughts. (From the movie. The Cesspool of Dark Thoughts has designs on the

Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-04 Thread Shane Legg
Semiborg? :) Shane Ben Goertzel wrote: Hi , For a speculative futuristic article I'm writing (for a journal issue edited by Francis Heylighen), I need a new word: a word to denote a mind that is halfway between an individual mind and a society of minds. Not a hive-mind, but rather a community

Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-04 Thread Deering
AND ? AND a collective-level conscious theater? How the heck does that work? Does the collective mind have control over the individual minds? If not, in what way is it different from just another of the individual minds? Are the individual minds (Novamentes)components of an

RE: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-04 Thread Ben Goertzel
resources, than a single mind with more individual firepower... ben g -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word Ben.. What you

RE: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-04 Thread Ben Goertzel
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of DeeringSent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:06 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word AND ? AND a collective-level conscious theater? How the heck

Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Fidika
How about something like Superculture? Culture may be thought of as a being with ver own preferences, biases, and motives, while also being composed of smaller, mostly myopic, beings, although no culture is closely-knit enough to be truly sentient or self-aware. We could define a Superculture as

RE: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-04 Thread Ben Goertzel
Mindplex is good. It beats multi-mind which was my default idea. Thanks Mr. Yudkowsky! ben g I/we/Google suggest mindplex. -- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence --- To unsubscribe,

Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-04 Thread Nick Clarke
- Groupthink? (sorry :-P) More seriously: - Meld - Conflux (Stephen Baxter - http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/gravitymine.htm; though perhaps this is closer to a hive mind, given the lack of distinction between individuals while they are joined. Good word, though.) Nick On Fri, 4 Jul