From: mycroftiv@sphericalharmony.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] Implementing consciousness with namespaces and pipes?
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:08:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81f863a77e15216b614320eb119bbe41@sphericalharmony.com> (raw)
Here's an interesting idea for making a computer "brain":
Create a big infrastructure of muxing pipes - like a tree or
a system of blood vessels or a system of neurons.
Organize this structure semantically, by letting you give a
name to each point on the tree.
Give the tree the ability to add new resources with a mount
command.
Allow the tree to create mappings and join concepts/names
by a bind operation. The union bind operation allows two
concepts to intersect at a point in the namespace, so this
corresponds to the construction of a metaphor.
The brain is a gigantic fractal namespace structure connected
by muxing pipes. It understands the world by union-binding the
inputs together into directories of metaphors.
If you have a really big computer and build this architecture,
you probably already have something that might be a cool kind
of brain simulator.
Just an idea from Mycroftiv.
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