Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Clique Space(TM) and topics on the "Self"

If Clique Space proves a concept as efficacious as my firming hope leads me to believe it will, there are three basic topics (garden paths) concerning the definition of "Self" that I think this system will play a central role in.

  1. The super-self, and an Emergent Social Sentience.

    A Clique Space system like I envisage the "Public" Clique Space to be would provide individual selves (you, me, and others) an environment in which our activity might collectively become so intertwined that the Public Clique Space itself might begin to display synergistic coordinated responses to stimuli that are based on the activity of individual users.

  2. Evolution of Synthetic Sentience.

    Clique Space systems might be designed to remain physically separate from others in such a way that an individual Clique Space may encompass its own level of autonomy. A Clique Space system might be employed in a manufactured article (some type of robot) to give it a degree of autonomy which would furnish it with a level of awareness.

  3. Definition of the Physical Self, and the Human Body as Just Another Client Device.

    A Clique Space user may consider devices they express themselves through as a means to an end for their own self-expression. The human body, being a physical artifact, would necessarily be expressed in a Clique Space system as a collection of one or more Client Devices. As all Client Devices use the common model through which they are expressed, the idea of the individual has a human form will begin to dissolve. Indeed, an individual on Clique Space may exist beyond their human form.
Very interesting subjects...

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