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I think substrate is too simplistic a term in the last case, but you get the drift of my question. Am wondering if it’s just inevitably intelligence/consciousness optimization all the way up.
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That's an interesting line of thought. Do you think the silicon brains would need consciousness to 'decide' to optimize for better computing substrate? Or do we as biological computing instruct silicon brains to do this?
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We have advantage and can make sure silicon brains are just like biological ones, but without its drawbacks
And i'm lucky cus i'm young enough to see it grow from nothing.
Anything beyond that is almost impossible to predict, we entered seriously interesting times
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"What is life?" -> Use information to make matter make information to make matter make information to make...
AKA '🧠 go brrr'
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Though some would take offense at silicon being 'better' than biobrains. Way more efficient at certain things, sure. Evolutionarily, you'd say 'better adapted to certain circumstances'. Then the silicon brains will find circumstances changing, and make next gen for that...
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Certainly not yet. But silicon brains do have the advantage of not having to be embodied in a single biological brain/body package, which has some serious fundamental scaling constraints (at least so far!), so you wonder how far that branch of the tech tree can go as a result
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Fair point!
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I had read somewhere that human brain cannot evolve more (via physical measures) , if you increase neural cells density in the current size , it will lead to lack of clarity and if you increase size, the body will not produce enough energy to support the brain
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That would be the next off shoot.
Like we are to Neanderthal they would be to us. A different species from our common ancestors.