Making Minds, Episode 6

Here's episode 6 of my series, which focuses on the benefits of a digital brain/mind versus its biological equivalent.

Comments

[Francois Caron]

Hi Graham,

This is very interesting topic, and I've heard many flavors of this so far in my live.

As you stated, a digital mind could live forever which is an interesting fact in terms of finding motivation for its own existence.

A human mind has an end of live (at least biologically). This, I think, is the major motivation for human to try to do as much as possible in terms of creativity and innovation, not knowing when and how his mind will die.

How do you see a digital mind be challenged to improve itself?

Thanks again for all the great post found on your blog!!!

Francois.

[Graham Glass]

Hi Francois,

Having a finite live is certainly one motivating factor for humans, but I think the bigger motivator is that it's simply enjoyable to learn, explore, and create. I think this would be the case for immortals as well. In addition, I think immortals would operate on a much grander time scale, so projects that they undertook could last for millions of years rather than just a few years.

Cheers,
Graham