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== What it means to be human ==
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'''''Concept / schedule''
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= What it means to be human =
  
Being living matter
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== Being living matter ==
  
Being an animal, not a plant
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=== Self replicating molecules ===
  
Being a "group"-animal
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Catalization of self-replication
  
Being intelligent
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Competition for basic building blocks
  
Being the most intelligent species on earth
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== Being an animal, not a plant ==
  
Living in slavery
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=== How a plant finds its building materials ===
  
Losing our ignorance
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=== How an animal finds its building materials ===
  
Surpassing point Omega
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movement; the trick to change place
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perception of the environment
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emotions and motivation
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Proximate and Ultimate purposes of behaviour (basics of how behaviours evolve)
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== Being a "group"-animal ==
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Emotions to seek company
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Emotions to seek own family or group
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== Being intelligent ==
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=== What is intelligence ? ===
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=== "Free" capacity for information processing ===
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=== Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity ===
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== Being the most intelligent species on earth ==
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=== Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence ===
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=== Hardware and software ===
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=== Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge ===
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== Living in slavery ==
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Software evolution taking over the lead
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Speed of evolution for hardware and for software
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Evolutionary jet-lag in Homo sapiens
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Human beings as carriers of two types of information, DNA, genes, and Culture, memes
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Blind spots / Self-Blindness / Cultural smoke curtains
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== Losing our ignorance ==
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When intelligence finally understands its own nature
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Freeing unsuspected quantities of energy and intelligence
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== Surpassing point Omega ==
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Unavoidable, automatic, unexpectedly fast and sudden
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Runaway characteristics; positive feed back loops (technically)
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Relax, enjoy the ride
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[[https://wiki.omega-research.org/Directives_for_after_Point_Omega|For suggestions about how to make best use of the situation after Point Omega, see [[[[here]]]]]]

Latest revision as of 00:58, 28 January 2020

Concept / schedule

What it means to be human

Being living matter

Self replicating molecules

Catalization of self-replication

Competition for basic building blocks

Being an animal, not a plant

How a plant finds its building materials

How an animal finds its building materials

movement; the trick to change place

perception of the environment

emotions and motivation

Proximate and Ultimate purposes of behaviour (basics of how behaviours evolve)

Being a "group"-animal

Emotions to seek company

Emotions to seek own family or group

Being intelligent

What is intelligence ?

"Free" capacity for information processing

Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity

Being the most intelligent species on earth

Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence

Hardware and software

Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge

Living in slavery

Software evolution taking over the lead

Speed of evolution for hardware and for software

Evolutionary jet-lag in Homo sapiens

Human beings as carriers of two types of information, DNA, genes, and Culture, memes

Blind spots / Self-Blindness / Cultural smoke curtains

Losing our ignorance

When intelligence finally understands its own nature

Freeing unsuspected quantities of energy and intelligence

Surpassing point Omega

Unavoidable, automatic, unexpectedly fast and sudden

Runaway characteristics; positive feed back loops (technically)

Relax, enjoy the ride

[suggestions about how to make best use of the situation after Point Omega, see [[here]]]