Saturday, September 27, 2008

Levels Of Thinking

Levels of Thinking
1. When your environment is unfavorable, you spend most of your time thinking about the basic needs for survival: food, water, air.

2. When you have food, water and air, you think about other things that make life easier: Electricity, Technology, Science, Mathematics

Suppose that that goal has been achieved as well, and somehow, everyday-life was made as easy as it possibly could be. Let's say, we have robots that cook for us, clean for us, farm for us ect. We won't have to do anything ourselves.
3. This will lead us to a new level of thinking that'll bring forth a new era in Human History. I'm not sure what that will be though.

But, will we want to be just idle humans?? Will we want to waste our lives consuming without producing? I believe that Boredom makes us human. We are not satisfied by what we have. We feel that we are endowed with a higher purpose to do something else. Always, something else. So it just may be that we humans will never reach that 3rd level of thinking. But an Artificial Intelligent program, with no needs, goals or desires, might be able to...

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