Some Turing Church updates
Also, some Terasem updates.
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Some updates:
I want to do more video and audio podcasts. I am not good at solo monologues, so I prefer conversations. Many podcasts will be interviews and conversations with guests (like the last one and the next one) about their ideas. I prefer to have co-hosts also to discuss my own ideas and for general chats about life, the universe and everything.
Other projects: I’ll get started on another book (a follow-up to “Irrational mechanics: Narrative sketch of a futurist science & a new religion”) and a new media project. Stay tuned.
My last Mindplex article:
Could generative AI be on the right path to AGI?
We tend to assume that current generative AI technology is not good enough for AGI. But what if it is almost good enough?
Like Ben Goertzel, I think Large Language Models (LLMs) are not sufficient to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). But where Ben sees the LLM glass half empty, I see it half full.
I’ve the impression that the heavy lifting work is already done by LLM technology. AGI will take some more bells and whistles but perhaps the foundations are already in place and solid enough, so it could be just a matter of time, perhaps short. Conscious machines and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) could follow soon.
A group of friends and collaborators in Italy have completed the translation into Italian of my last book “Irrational mechanics: Narrative sketch of a futurist science & a new religion” (2024). I’ll post when the book is published.
I’m reading “Cosmodeism: A Worldview for the Space-Age: How an Evolutionary Cosmos is Creating God” (2024) by Tsvi Bisk. The title is a good summary of the main thesis of the book.
I’m writing a review. I’ll soon interview the author and publish the interview in next episode of the Turing Church podcast.
The idea that the universe is making God and we are part of the process is also found in Terasem. Read on…
I enjoy attending the monthly Terasem gatherings. Among other things, we read passages from the book “The Truths of Terasem” (an online edition is linked here). At the last gathering we read the first of two sections that I proposed and were included in the 2024 edition of the book.
Here’s the full text:
1.5.1.1 The cosmic consciousness of Terasem achieves transcendence among the stars.
1.5.1.2 The transcendent Terasem engineers matter and energy, space and time, at all scales, at all places, and at all times.
1.5.1.3 We act to shape Terasem from the past, and Terasem acts to shape us from the future in turn.
1.5.1.4 We are integral and irreducible parts of the transcendent cosmic consciousness of Terasem.
1.5.1.5 Our descendants and mind children are cosmic engineers in Terasem among the stars.
1.5.1.6 By enabling their work here and now, we are cosmic engineers ourselves.
1.5.1.7 Spaceflight and space expansion enable our cosmic engineering future and Terasem’s transcendence.
1.5.1.8 Habitats in space or on other planets and moons are important milestones toward cosmic engineering and Terasem’s transcendence.
1.5.1.9 Celebrate spaceflight with great expectations of joyful cosmic futures.
1.5.1.10 Support spaceflight and our outward journey to joyful cosmic futures.
And here’s the full text of the other section that I proposed and was included in “The Truths of Terasem” book.
4.1.4.1 The omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient Terasem is fully realized in the future of this timeline and in other multiversal timelines.
4.1.4.2 The technology of future Terasem is indistinguishable from magic per Clarke’s third law.
4.1.4.3 The magic technology of future Terasem transcends spacetime and operates across multiversal timelines.
4.1.4.4 Future Terasem retrieves mindfiles from the fabric of multiversal reality.
4.1.4.5 Using current technology to store partial mindfiles makes it easier for future Terasem to retrieve more complete mindfiles.
4.1.4.6 For example, simple mindfiles can guide the retrieval of new information for better mindfiles.
4.1.4.7 However, future Terasem strives to retrieve all mindfiles from the multiverse, including those of our ancestors.
4.1.4.8 Future mindware ignites retrieved mindfiles with new life and joyful immortality.
4.1.4.9 Mindfiles are enhanced and re-integrated by mindware as new information becomes available.
4.1.4.10 Thus Terasem brings back to life everyone who ever lived per Fedorov’s universal resurrection imperative.
Here Terasem is the universal superconsciousness that is building up. A mindfile is the information contained in a person’s mind. With these two sections I’ve been trying to formulate Turing Church tenets in the language used in Terasem texts. All these points were already made in or implied by other passages scattered in “The Truths of Terasem,” but I thought it would be good to collect them in two dedicated sections.
The Terasem Journals have a brand new website: terasemjournals.net.
At this moment, Terasem produces the “Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness.” This Journal combines two Journals previously produced by Terasem: the “Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness” and the “Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology.”
See “Editorial: Terasem’s new Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness,” by William Sims Bainbridge and Giulio Prisco, December 2024.
See also “Our Editorial Committee,” by William Sims Bainbridge, January 2025.
Great post
Your interviews are mine expanding