I pointed out in the previous blog that a true self replication shall involve both top down and bottom up processes. Researchers are taking this system-wide approach in (nanotech) molecular manufacturing, as shown in the diagram. The industrial issue with nanotech and molecular manufacturing is that the yield of the …
Read More »Disruptive Technologies impacting beyond 2040 in Data Ecosystems II
AI Advisory and Decision making Machines AI has made significant progress in the last five years, thanks to the convergence of huge data access, increased processing power and self learning (I would consider this to be the stronger discontinuity with the past). It is now resembling an avalanche, as more …
Read More »Big-C versus Little-C: the debate on consciousness is still on
Consciousness is a slippery, and fuzzy, concept. It is a bit like the concept of time as St. Augustine remarked long time ago: “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.” …
Read More »The thin, fuzzy, line between awareness and consciousness
Philosophers have been debating about awareness, consciousness and for long time have asserted that only us, humans, are conscious (whilst all living things need to have some sort of awareness to keep living…). Today we know that it is not just us, many, actually most, animal species have some degree …
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