Neo-PROJECT AUTOGNOMICS

SYNTHESIZING MIND

PROJECT AUTOGNOMICS is a long term project of the AutoGnomics Group of Companies (AGC), “loosely initiated around 1990”, directed at developing a standard theory of MIND and technologically implementing it in stages as a SyntheticMind (SynMind), the AutoGnome.  At the core of the effort is the elucidation of the distinction between the mind and the brain, this latter being a biophysical center for manifesting the emergent relational form and processes defined as “mind”.

“We cannot imprison the mind in the brain. The mind is in every cell of our body and also extends into the whole universe”.  Deepack Chopra – “The Sun”, April 2013, pg. 48]

It is finally being acknowledged by the advanced edge of inquiry in the established academic/research community that life at the level of the individual cell (e.g. the single cell bacterium) exhibits “anticipatory behavior”, a necessary property in defining “consciousness/mind”. More generally, however, the key characterization of “mind” is that it is a semiotic (i.e. sign-based, e.g. natural language, mathematics, art, etc.) system.

EXPERIENTIAL BACKGROUND/RECENT and PLANNED RESEARCH

· At the human bio-level the human genome project revolutionized creative genetics [at a cost of $3.8 billion over 13 years; with an estimated value created over 20 years (at 2010) of $800 billion].

· At the human neurological-brain level the proposed human cognome project intends the complete mapping of the brain-sensor-effector system [estimated cost and benefits not yet agreed upon, but likely comparable to the genome project].  

· At the human mind level Project AutoGnomicsTM intends to experientially map the semiotic organization of the human mind, thereon to formulate a standard theory of mind, and to technologically synthesize and applicationally engineer its implementation (the AutoGnomeTM), all via an open participation social network of collective intelligent communities of inquiry, innovation and implementation [the current citizen science effort to map the human microbiome is analogous], focused on developing and commercializing incremental Synthetic Intelligence (SI) components of this SynMind. The platform for this effort will itself be an early app of such components derived from key products, specifically AutoGnomics StartSmartR Technology.

•  [A WAG cost estimate for Project AutoGnomics including cash and in kind services: $750 thousand to re-design a specification, $2.5 to $7.5 million to build a comprehensive first version, and (including income, from partial SI products, applied to continuing development) $75 million to code a complete AutoGnome, and $750 million ($500 million to $1billion not being unusual) to develop an AutoGnomic Operating System, all over 7-14 years with a projected $750 billion of realized value over 14-21 years from Project initiation to adequate product market penetration]. NOTE: This total of $833,250,000 for Project AutoGnomics is only slightly over 20% of the Human Genome project cost of $3,800,000,000.

THE AUTOGNOME^TM vs. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The AutoGnome  (AG) is a class of Synthetic Intelligence technology that implements a semiotic model of mind that is both revolutionary and viable. Unlike conventional Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is often grounded in complex engineering solutions to narrowly-defined applications, or conversely, in approximate modeling of human psychology, neural-physiology, or brain science (like the Brain-Mapping Project), the AutoGnome  is a MultiCoRelational formally (mathematically)-grounded theory of mind that accounts for degrees of genuine, but non-anthropomorphically confined, mindfulness. Project AutoGnome  development aspires to virtual minds in virtual communities that are fully generalized—capable of adapting to any environment—and autonomous—with an emergent self not dependent on external input or control. Hence, the AutoGnome includes, but is not limited to or by, AI.