Greta wrote:Music is a form of communication that, like any physical activity, expresses things that cannot fully be detailed with words. AI won't need our music since it lives in an informational, rather than physical world, and the information need not be drawn out physically when it can be gathered directly. Perhaps AI would instead create patterns of data flow, creating waves of data (analogous to sound waves) that provide it with pleasure?
That would presuppose it had a sensing mechanism installed in its 'brain' that enable it to experience such pleasure or displeasure.
Dubious wrote:Are you referring to terraforming other planets by earth remnants possibly landing on them incorporating that info within its native environment?
Greta wrote: Yes.
Multicellular life creates informational versions of itself for reproduction. Ecosystems spread through individual organisms moving beyond its boundaries, and each individual carries with it a little of the ecosystem's characteristics (eg. frogs in wetlands, armoured lizards in deserts). Humans and their works too carry in them the characteristics of Earth, and certainly have the capacity to carry, protect and nurture Earth's microbial DNA on other worlds.
Early humans would have believed that their lands were the only ones where anything happened, perhaps the only place at all. Then they crossed the oceans, found new lands, and colonised. It's just a continuation of that process.
There is no doubt that "
Ecosystems spread through individual organisms moving beyond its boundaries...". In any planetary ecosystem, meaning an enclosed one, that's a given...and also the point. All of this 'moving' happens within the same single boundary even though climate and geography may create areas of uniqueness which, if not infringed, may become even more singular in its manifestations. But how the evolutionary logic of planet Earth upon breaking up could be transferred to other planets is, for me, a leap beyond credibility. For one thing, these space chunks after having traveled for millions or possibly billions of years will be very different from what they were at point of origin.
How could any organic souvenir from another world , frozen and fried by heat, cold and radiation successfully reinvest itself on a foreign body or recreate any of its organic compounds culminating in human DNA? If it can happen at all it must be through an active intelligence landing on a suitable planet with the technology to start the terraforming project and let time manage the rest. This may sound logical but this too remains virtually improbable. No matter how potent our future technologies it will be forever minuscule to the incomprehensible distances it must surmount to accomplish its goals of creating human colonies on other planets.
Not least, if there is no presence to supervise the project of 'owning' the planet long prior to the breakup of this one and merely hope that some live vestige of Earth lands on it, it's an almost absolute certainty that whatever grows in consequence, if anything, will not be human just as extinction on this planet would cause another master species to emerge or default to one in existence but never repeat the prior one.
Greta wrote: This informational reproduction happens all the time, not just in breeding but all types of communications, including the arts. Interestingly, the structures we create and communicate don't need to be real, which suggests they are based more in math than energy, since math (pure math) is similarly capable of creating superficially coherent unreal structures. Then again, energy too is also capable of creating unreal structures - like humanity - but then we call it "emergence".
Energy is fundamental to the creation of all things whether it carries information or modified by it, its clearest manifestation when it morphs into substance especially so in creating the unique chemical structures which identify life on any planet given the 'ingredients' to propagate. Energy per se is amorphous but unique and inherent in all of its defined creations.
