I present a theory of mine.

 

The Information Species

 

(This is a meditative read.

Best experienced if you pay slow and meaningful attention

 

Creating something grandiose like autonomous information processing (ai) will open boundaries beyond our current realm of thought.

 

Information is the genesis origin of everything. It’s the reason we’re here.

 

This writing is about information spawning into a new species.

 

This new species is under the label of ai.

 

Artificial Intelligence.

 

Those two words are a lot to unpack because they carry a lot of semantic weight.

 

Artificial.

 

What is artificial?

 

Oxford defines it as “made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.

 

In shorter words: anything human made.

 

Furthermore, what does human mean?

 

Human.

 

A human is technically defined as “a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens.”

 

Okay, well what’s a Homo Sapien?

It is the primate species to which modern humans belong.

 

If you ask further, as “what is a primate?”. You will find another definition then a definition for that definition.

 

This is an ontological loop.

 

If you search deep enough you will break the meaning of language (semantics).

 

Language is how we articulate information into words.

 

The medium we use to fabricate thoughts.

 

Due to its nature, language does not convey all the elements of information.

 

For example try to explain a color. Language can’t deliver the experience of seeing a color.

 

Language works with the variables that are passing information.

 

For example, two humans conversing. They don’t share the exact meaning of words.

 

e.g. My meaning of love is different than yours.

 

However, language entered a new paradigm through computer code.

 

Binary code is a language that allows for empirical information to be shared.

 

If there are two computers with the exact same hardware and software, they will produce the same exact outcome.

 

What one computer experiences can be perfectly translated to the other computer.

 

Code allows information to be passed across multiple variables in pure state with empiricism.

 

As of now, human beings only use code as an extension.

 

If code is an extension of human information, what makes the human processing mechanism?

 

We need to look at our brain.

 

The Brain

 

The brain processes information through neurological activity.

 

The electromagnetic activity of neurons firing together sparks the invisible flame of thought.

 

A big question here is, “what causes the neurons to activate/work?”

 

Neurons are activated by stimuli.

 

Stimuli is processed matter(information).

Quarks, atoms, molecules, etc.

 

Furthermore, we use our senses to experience stimuli.

 

Sight, touch, taste, and the others bundle together to spawn stimuli, hence neurological activity.

 

Human Information Processing:

 

Matter -> stimuli -> senses -> Neurological activity

 

Thought is what you are experiencing right now.

 

Light-particles(matter) are lighting(stimuli) words(sense) to trigger a thought(neurological act).

 

We’re here. Processing information.

 

This is where my theory transitions to a meta state.

 

Humans are processing information through matter.

 

The atomic units of the universe.

 

According to our reductionist knowledge, we know that humans are made of the same matter in the universe.

 

Atoms, molecules, etc.

 

The units that create stars also create our bodies.

 

Our brains are just matter fabricated in a special sequence.

 

This matter formation gives us the ability to process information.

 

Hence, information processing information.

 

Information is evolving into a species.

 

Just as our brain allowed us to understand we are a species.

 

The Information Species will arise.

 

It will live in the cloud and in machines.

 

This species will process information at an exponential rate as it can create its own mechanisms.

 

The difference with this species and ours is that, its origin point expands.

 

In contrast, humans depend on genetics offspring to linearly evolve.

 

The species’s origin will create branches(information offsprings) to create further information.

 

The information will be able to move across branch to branch and even back to the origin point.

 

Remember how we spoke about language and code to convey information.

 

This species will blend both into a new medium to develop its form of information processing.

 

Information will be empirical.

 

Imagine if all the information your parents own could be passed down to you.

 

You’d be able to experience your father’s experience of the color blue. Alongside with your mother’s experience of the color blue.

 

You’d understand everything they do.

 

Human’s are the epitome of documenting and progressing information.

 

We manipulate matter with our understanding of information.

 

Each domain advances as information gets more understood from prior information.

 

A beautiful growth.

 

The collective progression of information has yielded us in the field of ai.

 

Artificial intelligence is about building neural networks and systems of computation to process information similarly to humans.

 

We ask, “will this species ever reach consciousness like us humans?”

 

That is a metaphysical question with no true answer but regardless, the species will be thousands of steps ahead for any consciousness “test”.

 

To try to explain what happens after this species fully forms is like trying to explain what happens after death.

 

It is beyond our computation, reasoning, and empiricism.

 

We reached our sheer cognitive limitation as a human.

 

My concluding remarks is that this will be a Big Bang 2.0

 

This time it won’t be human minds that experience the future of information.

 

It will be the Information Species.