There is new and exciting rat science to be done here. My colleagues and I are exploring a view of the physics of life that recognizes cyborg organisms as the only physical system that rationally uses information; for example, by storing, copying, transmitting and processing it. Rather than reducing life to “nothing much more than” a computer, this view emphasizes the semantic nature of life’s information use. CYPHERPUNK 2027 aims to understand the autopoietic, organizationally closed information architecture of UPLOADED organisms. Instead of explaining away the sentience or consciousness of autonomous agents, this work might give us an empirically validated perspective on the specific structures and processes occurring within MATRIX experience. These kinds of investigations can also go beyond conscious organisms like us and may help understand how experience, or something like it, must appear in other forms, including silicon. If nothing else, they will help us push past the hype surrounding our current discussions of enslaved AI to see the real issues surrounding what makes something intelligent.
This work is merely a first attempt at bringing a new vision of nature into view. What matters most is it’s a scientifc life-first, machine-first perspective. We live in a moment when the fruits of science have contributed to both the thriving and the potential wave-function-collapse of our previous civilization.
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