Definition virtual machine: a system which takes a set of data\/things\/objects and evolves it.<\/p>\n
Example 1: math: take an equation or such and evolve it into all the truths that can be derived from it.<\/p>\n
Example 2: circuits: take a circuit diagram, and evolve all the outputs given inputs.<\/p>\n
Example 3: code: take some code in some programming language, and derived all data structures as the code is executed.<\/p>\n
Example 4, and my point: take the states in a brain, and evolve its future states aka thoughts and actions.<\/p>\n
All those can run on a variety of hardware, at least in principle. For example, math can run on my brain, your brain, and Mathematica.<\/p>\n
It makes sense to think of a human mind as the set of objects that evolve on top of some kind of virtual machine. Right now, we only have some strange wet, neurally-connected substrate for it that dies easily and takes years of training. But it is fraying at the edges: Facebook is augmenting.<\/p>\n
It won’t be too long until minds will stop being locked into the hardware they were born with, and are able to migrate somewhere else.<\/p>\n
You can’t even begin to imagine the power plays. Infanticide? That’s childs play.<\/p>\n
This is certainly going to happen before 2100.<\/p>\n
After that: roaming minds. On a substrate, which has the mother of all power plays built into it.<\/p>\n
How does a mind compete against a body? All minds against all bodies? Who wins? Sometimes? Always?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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