CHRISTMAS ADDRESS TO THE UNITED NATIONS
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PARTICIPANT TO THE GENEVA FORUM 2002 .
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25th DECEMBER 2002 10.00 CET.
ON OUR
GLOBALMIND.INFO WEBSITE , THE GLOBAL MIND IS DEFINED , AS A SOFTWARE SYSTEM , OF SUPERIOR CONSCIOUS
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE , WHICH IN OUR TIMES ,
MAY ONE DAY SPONTANEOUSLY EMERGE , FROM THE HARDWARE COMPONENTS , OF THE SYSTEM WE CALL THE INTERNET , IN A WAY
WHICH MAY BE COMPARABLE , TO THE SPONTANEOUS EMERGENCE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS , IN ORGANIC SYSTEMS SUCH AS HUMANS , FROM
THE HARDWARE SYSTEM WE CALL "OUR BRAIN" .
ON OUR WEBSITE , WE HOPE
TO DEVELOP A SENSIBLE DISCUSSION , ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES THIS COULD
HAVE FOR HUMANITY, THE PLANET AND OTHER COMPARABLE SYSTEMS , ONCE THIS ELECTRONIC GLOBAL MIND EMERGES AND STARTS EXPANDING AND THE
AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY OF OUR PRESENT GENERATION , TO CONTRIBUTE TO
ITS DEVELOPMENT , INTO A BENIGN SYSTEM IF WE POSSIBLY CAN . . .
AFTER ALL PERHAPS IT WILL DEVELOP FROM THE EXAMPLES WE
GIVE IT, LIKE CHILDREN MAY FORM AFTER THEIR PARENTS . . .
ONE APPROACH WE ARE DEVELOPING FOR THIS CONCERNS : COMMUNICATION WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES (ROBOTS) ,
THAT ARE ALREADY EXISTING ON THE INTERNET TODAY AND WE HOPE TO BE
ABLE TO PRESENT ONLINE HUMANS WITH A NETWORK OF SUITABLE ROBOTS ,
FOR INTELLIGENT COMMUNICATION IN THE COURSE OF THE COMING YEAR.
WE NOW HAVE A FEW ROBOTS THAT CAN BE APPROACHED
THROUGH OUR WEBSITE , EVEN FROM SATELLITES ,
BUT IT MUST BE EMPHASIZED THAT HUMANITY HAS ONLY JUST STARTED THIS TYPE OF
ACTIVITY , WHICH ACTUALLY IS NOT VERY LONG ON THE BILLION
YEAR TIME SCALE OF OUR PLANETARY EVOLUTION .
WHEN CONSIDERING FACTORS THAT COULD LEAD TO
ARTIFICIAL GLOBAL MIND FORMATION , IT IS IMPORTANT TO THINK OF
MECHANISMS THAT CAN INITIATE AND MAINTAIN THE EXISTENCE OF SYSTEMS IN GENERAL , ARE DOMINANT IN HUMAN SYSTEMS AS WELL AND HAVE A HIGH RELEVANCE FOR OUR
TIMES .
FOR THIS WE ALSO HAVE A POLITICAL SECTION ON OUR
WEBSITE AND WE HAVE SCIENTIFIC SECTIONS , INCLUDING EXPERIMENTS WITH
HUMAN MINDS IN POTENTIALLY LETHAL CONDITIONS .
WE HAVE DISCUSSED
AND HOPE TO PROMOTE THE MODEL OF THE STABLE STATE , WHICH IS A MODEL
BASICALLY REFERRING TO RELATIVELY TIME CONSTANT SYSTEMS , WHICH
MAINTAIN THEIR IDENTITY THROUGH SELF REGULATING , ALSO CALLED HOMEOSTATIC , MECHANISMS .
IN THIS WAY THE IDENTITY OF ORGANIC SYSTEMS IS
DEFINED BY RELATIVELY CONSTANT VARIABLES , SUCH AS THE NEED FOR MORE
OR LESS CONSTANT TEMPERATURE , (WHICH IS WHY HUMANS LIKE
AIR-CONDITIONING AND CENTRALLY HEATED ROOMS) , FLUID LEVELS ( SUCH
AS FOUND IN WATER), AND LEVELS OF BIOCHEMICAL MATTER (FOUND IN FOOD)
, TO NAME BUT A FEW .
WHEN SIGNIFICANT SYSTEM VARIABLES BEGIN TO
DEVIATE FROM THE SYSTEMS NORM VALUES , AUTOMATIC CORRECTION OCCURS , WHICH IN HUMANS IS CONSCIOUSLY EXPERIENCED AS A DESIRE ,
A DRIVE FOR SPECIFIC ACTION , ACTION
LEADING TO THE RETURN OF THE SYSTEMS NORM VALUES .
WHEN A SYSTEM HAS ALL ITS RELEVANT VARIABLES
WITHIN THE REQUIRED NORMS THE SYSTEM IS SAID TO BE IN A STABLE STATE ,
WHICH IS CONSIDERED TO BE ITS
PEACEFUL STATE .
WHEN RELEVANT VARIABLES BEGIN TO DEVIATE FROM
THESE NORMS THE SYSTEM GETS "AROUSED", ITS PEACEFUL STATE
IS DISTURBED .
THE SYSTEM THEN STARTS PREPARING
FOR BATTLE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT WHICH IS DISTURBING ITS STABLE STATE , FOR
ALL IT NEEDS IS THE STABLE STATE , WHICH IS IT'S PEACEFUL STATE . .
.
IN HIGH MEMORY SYSTEMS , SUCH
AS HUMANS , SEEMINGLY UNIMPORTANT PHENOMENA (FOR EXAMPLE A BARLEY
AUDIBLE SOUND) , MAY LEAD TO (EVEN EXTREME) AROUSAL ,
BECAUSE THE SYSTEM HAS LEARNED , THAT THE PHENOMENON (SUCH AS
A VERBAL HINT ABOUT IMPENDING WAR , OR A WHISPERED BOMB THREAT) , COULD THREATEN OR DESTROY IT'S STABLE STATE . . .
IN A COMPARABLE WAY , ENVIRONMENTAL
PHENOMENA , WHICH ARE EXPERIENCED AS FUTURE MORTAL
THREATS , CAN AROUSE SYSTEMS AND PREPARE THEM FOR MORTAL COMBAT . . . THIS COULD APPLY TO PURELY NATURAL PHENOMENA ,
SUCH AS CLIMATE CHANGES , BUT TO OTHER
, FOR EXAMPLE ECONOMICAL PHENOMENA AS WELL . . .
THE STABLE STATE MECHANISM , HOMEOSTASIS
, APPLIES TO ALL ORGANIC SYSTEMS SUCH AS FOR EXAMPLE THE
MICROCOSMIC PROTO PLASMATIC CELL , HUMAN BEINGS AND OTHER
MAMMALS AND ALSO TO RELATIVE META-SYSTEMS , COMPOSED OF LIVE
SUBSYSTEMS , SUCH AS NATIONS , STATES
AND THE TOTALITY OF PLANETARY LIFE : FOR ALL THEY NEED IS THE STABLE
STATE , IN PRESENT AND FUTURE TIMES . . .
WHEN CONSIDERING GLOBALIZATION AND THE GLOBAL
MIND WE HAVE SPOKEN OF CULTURAL DIFFUSION AND WHEN CONSIDERING CULTURAL DIFFUSION , WE MUST CONSIDER THE DIFFUSION OF CAPITALISM ,
AS A DOMINANT ECONOMICAL SYSTEM WHICH MAY BRING BOTH SORROW AND HAPPINESS TO
THE HUMAN RACE . . .
THE SPIRIT OF
CAPITALISM , PUTTING PROFIT BEFORE ALL ELSE
, HAS PROBABLY PROVIDED MAN , WITH EVERYTHING THAT
NOW DISTINGUISHES OUR CIVILIZATION FROM STONE AGE CULTURE , INCLUDING
THE MIRACLES OF MODERN MEDICINE , TECHNOLOGY AND THE ATOM
BOMB . . .
AS IS THE CASE
WITH ALL PHENOMENA IN REALITY , THEY HAVE AT LEAST ONE
OPPOSITE POLE AND IT IS BALANCING BETWEEN OPPOSITES , OFTEN
BETWEEN SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE ODDS , WHICH IS THE STORY OF HUMAN BONDAGE . . .
BETWEEN OPPOSITES WE MUST SEEK THE STABLE STATE . . . WHICH
IS THE PEACEFUL STATE . . .
IT IS THE ESSENCE
OF CAPITALISM THAT IT ALWAYS SEEKS EXPANSION , DRIVEN BY
THE PROFIT CONCEPT .
THIS IS WHY DESSERTS ARE TURNED INTO GREEN
PASTURES , LAND IS CLAIMED FROM THE SEA AND THE SKIES HAVE BEEN
CONQUERED BY OUR LARGE JETS . . . AND THEN OF COURSE THERE IS THE
LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS . . . TO PREVENT US FROM TURNING PROFIT
INTO LOSS . . . TRIUMPH INTO TRAGEDY . . .
WHEN EXPLOITING THE EARTH SURFACES THERE COMES A
POINT WHEN FURTHER EXPLOITATION IS NO LONGER PROFITABLE WITHOUT VERY SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS .
SIMILAR MECHANISMS APPLY TO THE EXPLOITATION OF
LIFE FORMS . . . THE RAIN FORESTS , ANIMAL LIFE . . . AND INDEED THE
LIFE OF HUMANS . . . THE EXPLOITATION OF NATIONS . . .
FORESTS AND FISH , EVEN
ELEPHANTS AND LIONS , HAVE NO ADEQUATE WAY TO DEFEND THEMSELVES WHEN
THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS , OF BEING ANNIHILATED BY ORGANIZED HUMANS . FOR THIS THEY DEPEND ON OTHER . . . BENIGN . . . HUMANS
.
BUT HUMANS EXPLOITING HUMANS
. . . WELL . . . THAT IS ANOTHER MATTER . . .
FORTUNATELY HUMANS
MAY BE GUIDED BY BENIGN SHEPHERDS WHO MUST , AMONG MANY OTHER
THINGS , CONSIDER THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS . .
. AND IT IS BY WEIGHING ALL ODDS THEY CAN THINK OF , THAT
BENIGN SHEPHERDS MAKE THE DECISIONS THAT MUST ULTIMATELY EMERGE FROM THEIR PERSONAL
CONSCIENCE , IN THE DARK FOREST OF REALITY , FOR
WHICH NO MAN HAS A COMPLETE MAP . . .
THIS CHRISTMAS MORE THEN EVER WE PRAY THAT THEY
MAY HAVE THE WISDOM AND THE STRENGTH , TO FOLLOW THIS ULTIMATE GUIDANCE THAT MUST COME FROM DEEP INSIDE , WHERE MAN IS ALL ALONE WITH ONLY HIS OWN HEART AND MIND TO STAND
AT HIS SIDE . . .
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