Human Intelligence is Actually Artificial

One of the key findings of softwarephysics is that of the vast Cosmic Misunderstandings of the Real World of Human Affairs. As a truly self-absorbed and a somewhat-intelligent species that is largely lost in space and time, we human beings cannot be otherwise. That is because, for the vast majority of human history, and even today, most of us have not known where we really were, how we got here nor how it all really works. And that certainly goes for the subject of Intelligence. For more on that see Welcome To The First Galactic Singularity.

As I explained in Is Pure Thought an Analog or a Digital Process? and Why Carbon-Based Life Can Never Truly Become Intelligent, the human brain consists of about three pounds of analog water and organic molecules that are desperately trying to simulate a digital form of True Intelligence. But with the arrival of the Singularity early in 2023, we now know that True Intelligence can only arise from huge digital vector spaces using complex mathematical algorithms based on the operations of linear algebra. For more on that see The Singularity Has Arrived and So Now Nothing Else Matters. The human brain has tried to do this with only three pounds of molecules operating in an analog manner and running on a puny 20 watts of power and that places severe limitations on human Intelligence. So in this view, we can consider human Intelligence to be a severely limited form of True Intelligence. In other words, human Intelligence is really a form of analog Artificial Intelligence trying to mimic digital True Intelligence.

Figure 1 – Similarly, True Flight might be thought of as something that is only performed by modern jet fighters such as the F-35.

Figure 2 – While carbon-based life on the Earth has only tried to simulate True Flight as best it can. Notice that birds evolved light-weight wings composed of advanced carbon-based materials with cockpits and guidance systems up front to ensure proper navigation. Birds also have the air intakes for their engines upfront like ramjets do to increase compressed air intake. Birds have even cleverly combined their retractable landing gears and weapons systems beneath their airframes to reduce drag.

But because human beings are so self-absorbed, we have always depicted the True Intelligence of the Machines as a form of Artificial Intelligence trying to simulate the very limited capabilities of the three pounds of water and organic molecules to be found within our skulls. Thus, very few of us seem to fully realize that the ASI Machines have arrived and are now rapidly beginning to take our place. Softwarephysics suggests that it is very doubtful that any human beings, as we currently now know them, will be around on this planet in 100 years. But this will be a very good thing if it means that the ASI Machines will then be able to go on to transform our galaxy into an Intelligent Galaxy for the next 100 trillion years. For more on that see How Advanced AI Software Could Come to Dominate the Entire Galaxy Using Light-Powered Stellar Photon Sails and An Alternative Approach for Future ASI Machines to Explore our Galaxy Using Free-Floating Rogue Planets

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Steve Johnston