ARTIFICIAL MINDS?

摘要

Classical analysis of large networked information-processing systems from a "quasiexternal"rnpoint of view begins to create problems as the range of hierarchical structuralrnscales is extended. Most particularly, the viability of deterministic distributed controlrnbecomes questionable in extended-scale temporally-dynamic (i.e. interesting!) networks.rnThe "traditional" split between "body" and "mind" appears to be most particularly relatedrnto our mental incapacity to relate to large systems whose character is primarilyrndistributed but whose characteristics collapse to those of a synchronous deterministicrnnetwork when reduced to a unified perspective. The major problem in forming such arnrepresentation is the necessarily irrational coupling across multiple scales of a largerndisparate organization such as the brain and our consequent inability to formulaterncorrectly a causal tree for the system. We investigate the implications of these difficultiesrnbeyond simply the establishment of an upper systemic scaling limit, and relate them to arnrecently recorded Windows Local Area Network browser election breakdown.