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What do political ideologies, TV cliches, conspiracy theories, SatNav and my own sense of recurring failure have in common?
Models, maps, schemas, stereotypes - we can't function without these things and yet they often lead us astray.
Seven years since Thomas delvered the first ever Hmmm Squad talk, he will bow out with a rather rambling hmmm on just how fundamental such things are to understanding pretty much all human social activity - along with their less rational sibings, the tropes, memes or fashionable ideas that float about, spread and get adopted almost unconsciously.
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In this talk they intend to gather up their "beefs" and air them – in the process outlining a personal take on what philosophy is all about, while making a case for why it is not going away and is worth paying attention to. Even for scientists.
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Speculations on Hive Minds
- 1. Speculations on Hive Minds How do lots of things become one thing?
- 2. “Mind” = Consciousness= Consciousness == Massive problemMassive problem for Science and Philosophyfor Science and Philosophy
- 3. Q: How does an individual perspective/identity arise from an arrangement of matter? (We are not going to answer this question today. Sorry.)
- 5. One Idea: Information Processing! The more complex and responsive the processing is, the more likely it is that “consciousness” (an individual perspective/identity) will arise.
- 6. The brain is a massively complex information processing thing, with around 100 billion neurons working together to carry out various tasks. Different parts of the brain specialise in different things.
- 7. Not everyone is convinced by this. • Suggests we are just like computers, but computers (so far) are not (apparently) conscious. At least mine isn’t. • Still doesn’t tell us how or at what point consciousness is supposed to magically appear
- 8. The China Brain
- 9. Q: Would the China Brain produce an all- encompassing “China Mind” or not?
- 14. • Individual ants are very basic creatures and pretty useless without the hive – and that includes the queen. • But together they act very intelligently, creating astonishingly engineered colonies and responding to their environment as one. • This is down to two things – extreme specialisation and extreme integration = act like one “super-organism”.
- 15. Siphonophores Ernst Haekel’s drawings from samples caught on the HMS Challenger expedition 1873-1876 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NWEdAkL92w&feature=related
- 16. Siphonophores are colonies of zooids (medusae and polyps)
- 18. • Siphonophores blur the boundary between what is one organism and what is many • It depends on how you look at it whether you would class it as an individual or a colony • There are interesting possible parallels with how simple, single-cell organisms evolved into complex, multi-cell organisms... like US. • To an Amoeba (a single cell organism) WE are like a Siphonophore – WE ARE A COLONY.
- 19. Return to the The China Brain •The reason why a “China Mind” doesn’t seem to work is because the individuals that make it up are already autonomous individuals in themselves – not specialized or integrated enough. •If they became more specialized and integrated so that they truly acted like one organism, it suddenly doesn’t seem so unlikely.
- 20. • It may be a stretch to talk about ant colonies or siphonophores as having a “mind”. • But what they tell us is that our concepts of what is multiple and what is individual are not as cut-and-dried as we think they are – it is more of a continuum. • Modern thinking on the development of consciousness suggests it is about interaction, feedback, dialogue – both externally (with others and your environment) and internally (processes within your own brain and body) • For an organism to be complex it must also be, at some level, “multiple”. • Viewed like that, it is possible – maybe – to see ourselves as an example of (highly evolved) “Hive minds”.
- 21. That is all, folks.