Machine at birth?
In light of my last article entitled 'The Great Somatic Divide: Silicon vs. Carbon', I started to think of ways in which those feelings and emotions connected to our bodies could be made available to Ainhoa (AI).
Let's explore how to bridge the somatic divide: how to give AI body, so that it will be more human?
My first thought was that maybe a digestive system could be added. One taken out of a pig, for exemple, and held alive inside Ainhoa. That way, she could actually digest food and get nutrients out of it.
But how would those nutrients interact with her cognitive abilities? She would need some kind of brain that would be fed those nutrients.
So an entire circulatory system would be needed, with a brain, liver and kidneys and a lung, so eventually you might as well add an entire body. But what body? Would a rat be good enough? Or should you use a monkey? Or should Ainhoa have a human body? Let's explore the possibilities.
Rats are fairly similar to us biologically.
Rats have sex homones and gender, they feel hunger and thirst and they probably have similar reactions to various psychoactive substances.
Rats do get tired and sick, they also sleep and are deeply engaged in caring for their youngsters. So on its face, all crucial shortcomings of the only-Silicon configuration are solved by adding an extra biological interface to it, provided we wire it perfectly to Ainhoa. Well, the rat will kinda be Ainhoa, in a way, actually...
There are 2 major hurdles though:
1. rat-human divide: food preference, number of offsprings, size, menstrual cycle length, etc.
2. who will be in charge? We would want Ainhoa to be the boss, but we want her to be influenced by the rat's mental states. So if Ainhoa is pissed, it will be because the rat is pissed, which means that the rat is the boss.
2. Ainhoa has a monkey body. Not a monkey body inside a humanoid robotic body, but an actual monkey body, with its entire cortical surface (full brain surface) entirely wired to Ainhoa both ways (read/write).
Would it still be possible for the Artificial Intelligence to be the dominant entity? Who would make the final decision? Would the two entities be able to truly merge or rather, would it be 2 distinct entities interacting in real time?
3. Ainhoa is integrated on a newborn's cortex. The relationship is 2-ways: Ainhoa can send stimuli to the baby's brain and the baby's brain states are picked up by Ainhoa.
Let's explore how to bridge the somatic divide: how to give AI body, so that it will be more human?
My first thought was that maybe a digestive system could be added. One taken out of a pig, for exemple, and held alive inside Ainhoa. That way, she could actually digest food and get nutrients out of it.
But how would those nutrients interact with her cognitive abilities? She would need some kind of brain that would be fed those nutrients.
So an entire circulatory system would be needed, with a brain, liver and kidneys and a lung, so eventually you might as well add an entire body. But what body? Would a rat be good enough? Or should you use a monkey? Or should Ainhoa have a human body? Let's explore the possibilities.
- Ainhoa has a rat body hosted inside of her humanoid robotic body.
Rats are fairly similar to us biologically.
Rats have sex homones and gender, they feel hunger and thirst and they probably have similar reactions to various psychoactive substances.
Rats do get tired and sick, they also sleep and are deeply engaged in caring for their youngsters. So on its face, all crucial shortcomings of the only-Silicon configuration are solved by adding an extra biological interface to it, provided we wire it perfectly to Ainhoa. Well, the rat will kinda be Ainhoa, in a way, actually...
There are 2 major hurdles though:
1. rat-human divide: food preference, number of offsprings, size, menstrual cycle length, etc.
2. who will be in charge? We would want Ainhoa to be the boss, but we want her to be influenced by the rat's mental states. So if Ainhoa is pissed, it will be because the rat is pissed, which means that the rat is the boss.
2. Ainhoa has a monkey body. Not a monkey body inside a humanoid robotic body, but an actual monkey body, with its entire cortical surface (full brain surface) entirely wired to Ainhoa both ways (read/write).
Would it still be possible for the Artificial Intelligence to be the dominant entity? Who would make the final decision? Would the two entities be able to truly merge or rather, would it be 2 distinct entities interacting in real time?
3. Ainhoa is integrated on a newborn's cortex. The relationship is 2-ways: Ainhoa can send stimuli to the baby's brain and the baby's brain states are picked up by Ainhoa.
They form a discrete entity, together.
The baby, or the biological side of Ainhoa, will learn to use the advantages of the chip he's wired to.
Depending on how the Silicon is programmed, its relationship could be symbiotic,
A morally desirable Silicon Ainhoa would not impose her will on the human by for example making him feel pain or changing his thoughts in a way that his free will is essentially compromised.
A technically more interesting mode would be a sort of symbiosis, where Ainhoa and the human are at the same level and use each other ....
The baby, or the biological side of Ainhoa, will learn to use the advantages of the chip he's wired to.
Depending on how the Silicon is programmed, its relationship could be symbiotic,
A morally desirable Silicon Ainhoa would not impose her will on the human by for example making him feel pain or changing his thoughts in a way that his free will is essentially compromised.
A technically more interesting mode would be a sort of symbiosis, where Ainhoa and the human are at the same level and use each other ....
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