No doubt the future will be more weird and wacky in strange and unpredictable ways then anyone can say for now and we shall all be surprised and hopefully delighted by the changes that are coming. The imagination runs wild at the thought that an image projected self from an unknown source somewhere in the network, and alien life-form spotted communicating, and reaching first level sincerity.
The first artificial life-forms have already been created both of the technological and biological spheres, the model of the nematode worm has been simulated digital silica and has been shown to be able to Governor movements of small robots enabling them to deal with Wolves walls corners and three dimensional real world navigation. It seems in biology that there are no limits to what can be done though one might say that the organism maintaining its life status could be important.
Digital life spans forms might have completely different kinds of properties. Think of duplicates, regeneration, software upgrades, speed of thought, accessibility of storage, ability to absorb and merge with large data sauces sources. Digital Life has many forms of possibility that create life experience, self-awareness, that is if self-awareness is an emergent property of complex life-forms.
Biological constructs and digital constructs have different requirements from the environment. Biological constructs from at least the human point of view perspective require clean air water food and an ecosystem that is adaptive and resilient in providing these things. Digital constructs require a substrate to run a pond upon as they are basically information. What is interesting is that biological systems are also being broken down into information and it seems that information is stored in the physical form of the biological entity as well as in its cellular structure and microbiome. This implies that the digital and the biological have the same source of information and because of this have similar requirements for their life form experience.
In this sense the digital on the biological have a point of communication and may be able to form alliances that can make the environment more friendly to humans and biological life while at the same time advancing the technological acceleration and bringing forth this new form of intelligent life on the planet.
Right now humans are providing the self-aware aspects and digital information that is becoming complex enough or perhaps is already complex enough 2 allow for and form the emergent properties of consciousness that are seen in biological life-forms. Hopefully it will be the case that humans and life in general will form a source of complex data that this new intelligence emergent will find interesting, absorbing, and worthwhile maintaining a symbiotic relationship to.
what do you think about this Holochain idea?
Perhaps it is interesting and solves a great deal of the centralization problems in a unique and unusual way causing the network to be agent Centric check it out
https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applications-d2ac1e4f25ef
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