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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:08:48 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] Implementing consciousness with namespaces and pipes?
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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.