Ben Goertzel wrote: > Hi, > >> In regard to your "finally" paragraph, I would speculate that >> advanced intelligence would tend to converge on a structure of >> increasing stability feeding on increasing diversity. As the >> intelligence evolved, a form of natural selection would guide its >> structural development, not toward increasingly desirable ends, but >> toward increasingly effective methods. > > Yes, this is interesting, but I wonder what is the root of > your intuition about "increasing stability." > > I don't see why increasing stability would necessarily be a > feature of an advanced, rapidly-changing intelligence...
Your use of "root" was apt, with the central "root" of the spherical hierarchy being the most stable and with increasing rate of change extending to the outermost "leaves". I would expect increasing stability because the structure of this mind would reflect an increasingly refined model of nature's laws, which I see as providing a near-solid core but near-infinite flexibility (variety) in the fine detail. Interaction at the tips would appear to be increasingly diverse and unstable, while the overall structure, becoming increasingly refined in a weighted fashion, would appear to be increasingly stable. - Jef ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
