Saturday, March 21, 2009

Sentient Programs

Years ago on PBS there were little self learning snake like robots with learning by doing curves simulating the evolution of lifeforms on earth. Though they would never be exactly like real biological organisms the fact that they could simulate biological organisms in that they were designed to learn by doing, the algorythms created during their learing patterns could have been embeded within programs out in cyberspace and most especially out on the web and since these algorythms within programs simulate trial and error learning these programs and algorythms might have evolved on their own.

However, the original researchers 20 years ago might have either retired or even passed on not knowing how close they had come to simulating real life. And we, today wouldn't even know what to look for necessarily because no one expects to find anything that simulates something alive within the programming of their computers there self replicating themselves into computers and mainframes and other storage and message sending devices around the world.

So I guess what I'm saying is that when you have computerized electronic dollars traveling around the world there may be things no one presently understands out on the internet that could be at least synthetically be considered to be aware or sentient.

What I'm also saying is that it is likely there are things out there that absolutely no one fully understands because they would have no idea what to look for if it is synthetically animal or organism like in that it might know how to hide like a real organism in order to survive. So what I'm saying is that Sentient operating code may now exist in a form no one presently understands. And that this operating code might be one of the Global problems we are presently dealing with but don't understand yet.
No one knowing it existed would be one of the ways it could survive.

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