(i) To colonize an extra-solar planet: Hermes: Avalon; Dennitza; etc.
Yovan Matavuly led the Founders to their Morning Star. See Zoria.
(ii) To trade with inhabited planets. See Trade Or War.
(iii) To gather knowledge, i.e., the self-sustaining post-organic intelligences in Poul Anderson's Genesis need neither a habitable environment nor a source of income, neither employment nor a market. However, they are motivated to increase their knowledge both by observation and by locomotion. Is this the future of intelligence? I favour cooperation or at least coexistence between organics and post-organics.
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Kaor, Paul!
Assuming, of course, if such things as AIs or "post-organics" are even possible.
Hope this uploads.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
If an artificial neural network can duplicate brain functions, then it will be conscious.
Paul.
Thank you for continuing to try to upload.
Yes, but the problem is we don't understand how our brains produce consciousness. That means we're unlikely to be able to duplicate it.
Kaor, Paul!
And Stirling's comment above shows why I am so skeptical about things like true AIs, never mind "post-organics"!
I'm still having struggles uploading, but I will keep trying.
Ad astra! Sean
"Until we do understand", that is. Of course, it may be true that we simply aren't intelligent enough to understand the material basis of our own consciousness.
If an artificial neural network sufficiently duplicates the functions of organismic neurons, then it will generate consciousness whether or not we understand how it does.
Kaor, Paul!
And I remain unconvinced that that is even possible.
Hope this uploads.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
I am not convinced that it is possible! We can only try and see.
Paul.
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