Re: Natural Selection
[ Home ][ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ]Kevin Kelly
Sat, 7 Mar 1998 10:18:36 -0800
>For example, a paragraph in IV Impermanence of Digital Memory under item
>3. would read: <Unlike (human consciousness), which has had [x years] to
>create institutional contexts, (machine consciousness) [is] still in the
>early stages of innovation. Typically, in the first phase of innovation
>a new (consciousness) will imitate [emerge from?] an older one; thus
>(machine consciousness) [is] created from (human sources) - as a means
>to create new value by expanded access. But new social and
>organizational contexts made possible by (machine consciousness) are
>still emerging, only suggested by terms like "virtual community" and
>"distance education". In this sense, the organizational contexts which
>are responsible for (machine consciousness) remain to be defined and
>founded.>
>
That's amusing and worrisome. It might mean we have no idea what we are
saying when we speak like this or else it might mean we want to say
something different than we are.