FREEING THE MIND FROM THE HUMAN BRAIN

DISTINGUISHING the AUTOGNOME 

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 AUTOGNOMICS^TM 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.

In other words, in an effective community, the members will share understanding of both what ought to be desired—valued ends—and how it ought to be attained—the valued means to those ends. With this shared understanding, members of the community can act wisely both autonomously and collectively.