>>11367493>What makes them so intelligent and how can one emulate them?Dunno if it's as simple as emulation. By now we understand there are genetic factors that limit the growth of the mind, even if we don't fully understand them. But what is the mind, on a fundamental, natural level? It's merely a cloud of electric energy sustained by our physiology and our environment.
But what limits the growth of the mind? Our environment and biology imposes an upward limit on the growth of land animals such as the elephant, or on birds of flight, because they can only grow so large before they crush themselves under their own weight. Likewise, a combination of our genetics and our planet's electric environment imposes an upward limit on the growth of our mind.
The military has been experimenting with a "thinking cap" of sorts. By running a DC current through the brain, scientists have been able to speed up the learning process. Meanwhile, researchers at Tufts University discovered that electric fields determine which proteins cells will make, at least on tadpoles. They observed tadpole embryos developing in a lab and an electric field in the shape of a face swept across an embryo and the embryo then grew into that face. The electric field strength determined which proteins that particular cell would make, which led to a cascade of events that led to the development of certain organ systems.
So what I'm saying is that the mind is like a tree. The memories are like the leaves, the connections between these memories are like the branches. Our physiology is one variable that determines how many branches and leaves our body will contain, and someone like John von Neumann might represent the upper limit for mankind in our planet's current environment. I also believe it might be possible to artificially raise our planet's ceiling on the growth of intelligence and allow the mind to grow beyond our body and environment's normal limits, and what would we become?
