from HUMAN BRAIN
MODELING (AI)
[“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]
EXPERIENTIAL BACKGROUND
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 “mind”.
More generally,
however, the key characterization of “mind” is that it is a semiotic
(sign-based, e.g. natural language, mathematics, etc.) system.
MINDFUL TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION
Semiosis : joining of minds
of varying levels and types (including living but non-human, human, and synthetic (virtual) minds, e.g. as
machines/computers)
AutoGnome: syn-mind of generalized mindfulness capability
CyberGnome: a communal (collective, collaborative)
mind joining human and syn-minds
MyGnome:
functional
relation between human and syn-mind exhibiting a high degree of human
familiarity and cooperation
Notably,
all of the foregoing account for each of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic
(valuational)
functions of mind.
PROJECT AUTOGNOME vs. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The AutoGnome (AG) is a class of 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 recently Obama-announced Brain-Mapping Project), the AutoGnome is a
mathematically-grounded theory of mind that accounts for degrees of
genuine, but non-anthropomorphically defined, mindfulness. Project AutoGnome
development aspires to virtual minds
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.
VIRTUAL COMMUNAL (COLLECTIVE, COLLABORATIVE) MINDS
Mindful systems that
share a common ground of experience (e.g., visual, sound) can learn to
influence each other though production of signs
that each system interprets similarly – that is, produces a similar thoughtsign in each mind. Through this communication, minds can not only share
knowledge, but also cooperate in semiosis – effectively acting as a communal mind.
When
the ground of experience is itself virtual – i.e. a representation – and the
minds within a community generally interact through mediating technology, then
the dynamic system may be called a Virtual Community of Virtual Minds. When engaged in inquiry or innovation,
it becomes a Virtual Community of Inquiry or Innovation. [Note: Generalized Innovation includes – ideation, incubation, entrepreneurial
introduction and investment]
Notice
that the minds so engaged may include an organic (e.g., persons) along with the
virtual or technological (e.g. AutoGnomes)
mind. However, since the syn-mind here implicated derives from the underlying
theory of the AutoGnomic mind which does not depend on a human brain-based
theory, these Virtual Communities of
Virtual Innovation, in contrast with AI brain models, provide a unique and
novel generalized form for Virtual Collective Innovation in Business or
other Applications Development,
DISTINGUISHING AUTOGNOMICSTM FROM AI AT
THE PRODUCT LEVEL
An AutoGnomic Virtual
Generalized Collective Innovation Platform
On April 5, 2012 the Crowdfund
Act of 2012 was approved. This
groundbreaking legislation enables start-ups and existing businesses an
opportunity to raise funds for their companies directly from the public who can
invest small amounts of money in return for shares in the company. Americans
will be allowed to invest in ways that have historically been reserved only for
the wealthy. Together, America's entrepreneurs and investors will launch the
next great ideas of our time.
IT IS WIDELY
BELIEVED THAT THIS ACT WILL BE THE BASIS FOR THE GREATEST TRANSFORMATION IN THE
AMERICAN FREE MARKET IN MOST AMERICANS LIFETIME!
There
is already an ever-increasing abundance of crowdfunding websites with growing
functional sophistication. For instance, Crowdit’s
new approach to crowdfunding with its “virtual incubator” including peer-review
feedback, mentoring and business networking, is somewhat like our Virtual
Community of Innovation, which includes Virtual Incubation.
Although AI is promenant in crowdfunding to date, we expect our sustaining
differentiation will be via our Virtual Collective
Innovation approach to a new and better platform
focused on two key elements that remain underdeveloped in current platforms:
· the
cooperation in thought and action that elevates a crowd to a community;
our more sophisticated virtual community
enterprise would leverage all that its members can bring in terms of
equity, relationships, knowledge, experience, creative capacity, and so on,
and
- the inclusion of value that elevates knowledge
to wisdom.
