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Re: Is civilization natural?

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Originally Posted by HydrogenBond View Post
Here is an analogy. Say we have a network of computers. It is fairly easy to get it all the computers to integrate using hardware and software. This is like the animals. If we need to use the entire network to render some HD media, such as herd mating, we can make use of all the resources for that single task.

Next, let us replace the animal analogy computers with human AI (artificial intelligence) computers for the network, each which has it own own autonomy. These AI computers are smart enough to disconnect from the network and/or spread into the network and reroute network resources. The original hardware and software is no longer effective, under these conditions. We will need to add additional hardware and software to help compensate.
Very nice.
Do you think nerual-network modelers could build models like this? Of civilization? It might give the study of civilization a fresh data set. Maybe a nice change from pottery shards.
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