Good points I think, especially Jef's and Joel's. Yes, we might also consider it not necessarily impossible that, no matter how exotic their structures, there could be self-interested, self-modelling systems. Perhaps there isn't necessarily a limit to sentient inferential speeds, or to radically augmented sentience over arbitrarily distant, boundedly interreferential supergoals and, fewer still (though also infinite), boundedly interreferential superattractors.
But if not, it would be a shame for the facility of aesthetics to be phased out just because it was too much overhead. From an infinitesimally particular fleeting perspective anyway. ----- 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]
