In an interview with the producers of “Monolith”, a planned documentary adaptation in tribute to Stanley Kubrick and the legendary film by Arthur C. Clark, 2001: Space OdysseyI suggested that perhaps extraterrestrials visited Earth a few million years ago and installed a monolith, speaking metaphorically. During this visit, some chimpanzees were endowed with consciousness and became a human species. “In this case,” I suggested, “the monolith is just before our eyes, but we do not recognize his extraterrestrial origin in the mirror.”
A few million years later we are people able to create artificial intelligence (AI) from silicon tokens. But these AI systems employ gigawatts and require nuclear reactors to power them, while for comparable performance, the natural intelligence of the human brain only consumes 20 wattsOne hundred million times less power. In addition, biological brains are run by bodies that reproduce and are powered by copious materials from their environment. Silicon is copious, but semiconductor chips are not able to reproduce themselves.
In fact, the production of silicon tiles for semiconductors requires a precise design and wide labor in a distant vacuum environment. This suggests that biological infrastructure surrounding natural intelligence is much more proficient and sophisticated than current AI technologies. When we find out how the human brain works, we can be able to feed artificial intelligence with car batteries instead of nuclear reactors.
In this future, we can also be able to equip the brains of primitive animals with a higher level of intelligence and awareness by an appropriate medical procedure. Achieving this feat will show the possibility that a similar operation could have been achieved by interstellar guests.
In this hypothetical scenario, the answer to the question of Enrico Fermi: “Where is everyone?“It's” here “. The interstellar gardener covered the land with advanced intelligence and awareness and evidence can be seen when we look at the mirror. “A breakthrough In Nature magazine last month he announced that the complete sequences of monkey genome show 14% to 14.9% Total genetic difference between people and chimpanzees.
One of the paths to interstellar archeology is to examine these differences and search for parts that could be manipulated by interstellar guests. The explorers of such traces were reminded of the descendants of Genghis -khan, considering that they divide his genetic material.
Of course, the dominant scientific view is that human intelligence has evolved naturally within the earth without any interference of interstellar guests. In this case, consciousness is an emerging phenomenon that caused accident and can be restored on exoplanets in similar circumstances, in accordance with the same principles of organizational biology.
Indeed, there are coincidences that reflect the basic principle. For example, the surface temperature of the sun, 5780 degrees Kelvin, is comparable to the temperature at which the cosmic microwave background was emitted, 3000 degrees Kelvin, despite the fact that the density of gas emitting is significantly different in both cases.
The reason for the similarity of the emission temperature is that below this special temperature, free electrons are stored by protons to produce hydrogen atoms, which significantly reduce gas opacity to radiation and allows us to see radiation through transparent gas. The hydrogen fraction depends on the temperature, thanks to which the emission temperature depends only logarithmically on other photos of photosfer, such as gas density.
If natural evolution is the key to human intelligence, AI systems can offer people to develop consciousness. If AI shows similar cognitive features when the number of parameters in an artificial neural network reaches the number of parameters in the natural neural network of the human brain, we would know that consciousness emerges from the threshold of complexity in any essence of thinking.
In this case, consciousness can be replaced by higher cognitive states, which are implemented in neural networks with more free parameters than in the human brain. The complexity of the human brain was limited by energy consumption, reaching about 20% of the metabolic load of the human body. But AI systems or foreign interview may not respect the same limit. In this case, they could achieve superhuman levels and represent the implementation of the concept of “übermensch” by Friedrich Nietzsche, which in conventional religions was received by God.
Type 1:27 of state: “So God created humanity in his own image.” The basic question is whether superhuman intelligence from interstellar space has created people on its image or people were created by natural evolution on earth, but will create superhuman artificial intelligence into their image. In one way or another, people will no longer be able to apply for the top of the food chain. If there is a superhuman intelligence of strangers, perhaps people have never been at the top of the interstellar food chain, because most of the stars were billions of years before the sun. Obtaining this sense of humility will be another Copernicus Revolution.
The Film 2001: A Space Odyssey appeared Waltz Johann Strauss II “By the Beautiful Blue Dunube” because he showed a fictitious spacecraft with a space station against the background of land and distant stars. On May 31, 2025, this musical work will be transferred to the stars by a radio antenna in Spain served by the European Space Agency (ESA), on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the creation of ESA, as well as 200 years from the birth of Strauss.
There is no doubt that human intelligence is capable of great achievements, but interstellar space can offer even more talented systems. We are honored to find out if we are not following the primitive focus of our ancestor on Earth.
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