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= What it means to be human = | = What it means to be human = | ||
== Being living matter == | == Being living matter == | ||
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=== Self replicating molecules === | === Self replicating molecules === | ||
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Catalization of self-replication | Catalization of self-replication | ||
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Competition for basic building blocks | Competition for basic building blocks | ||
== Being an animal, not a plant == | == Being an animal, not a plant == | ||
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=== How a plant finds its building materials === | === How a plant finds its building materials === | ||
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=== How an animal finds its building materials === | === How an animal finds its building materials === | ||
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movement; the trick to change place | movement; the trick to change place | ||
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perception of the environment | perception of the environment | ||
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emotions and motivation | emotions and motivation | ||
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Proximate and Ultimate purposes of behaviour (basics of how behaviours evolve) | Proximate and Ultimate purposes of behaviour (basics of how behaviours evolve) | ||
== Being a "group"-animal == | == Being a "group"-animal == | ||
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Emotions to seek company | Emotions to seek company | ||
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Emotions to seek own family or group | Emotions to seek own family or group | ||
== Being intelligent == | == Being intelligent == | ||
| − | What is intelligence ? | + | |
| − | "Free" capacity for information processing | + | === What is intelligence ? === |
| − | Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity | + | |
| + | === "Free" capacity for information processing === | ||
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| + | === Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity === | ||
== Being the most intelligent species on earth == | == Being the most intelligent species on earth == | ||
| − | Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence | + | |
| − | Hardware and software | + | === Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence === |
| − | Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge | + | |
| + | === Hardware and software === | ||
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| + | === Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge === | ||
== Living in slavery == | == 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 | ||
== Losing our ignorance == | == 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 | ||
== Surpassing point Omega == | == 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
Contents
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]]]
