My last deliberations pointed me to something structural in Clique Space(TM) which has given me some pause for further reflection.
Most of my posts in this blog rest on my attempts to explain and justify the efficacy of my core Clique Space concept. This core concept comprises ideas including Cliques, Clique Spaces and an assortment of Elements, all of which I am now implementing in a Java SE environment. While implementing this concept, I am looking at what its potential implications (other than those given in the patent) are. My previous post where I deliberated the subject of the expression of an individual in synthetic media has been echoing in my head since.
One trivial matter I have decided to address is to change the name of the Axle Element. It is now going to be known as the Sovereign. The Axle is potentially a target of cynical heckling: I can see people having a good time at my expense with labels like Axle holder. And anyway, I like the term Sovereign because one possesses sovereignty less than one is a Sovereign individual. I named this Element the Account in the patent because I simply hadn't come up with a better term at that point.
A far less trivial matter revolves around the relevance of this Sovereign. My need to reflect was born of what I have felt for some time was the lack of a mechanism linking the collaboration of individuals to the exchange of state information between Agent Devices and between Agent Devices and other external devices. I think today's reflection has finally forged this link.
The Axle, being renamed the Sovereign also ties in with the main subject of today's deliberation: the Sovereign's Clique Space. The Sovereign's Clique Space represents the individual. The Sovereign's Clique Space is a Clique Space which contains, as its Clique Space's Clique, a Clique otherwise known as the Sovereign's Clique. The Sovereign's Clique contains Participants which represent the Agent Collaboration which manifest the Sovereign's Clique Space. To underscore the formal convenience of this structure, the Sovereign's
Clique Space and the Sovereign's Clique both have the same name; the
value of the Sovereign's Identifier.
If a sentient individual manifest in a medium incompatible to Clique Space (a human being as we are currently manifest) might want to gain a vicarious presence in a Clique Space aware medium, then one might fashion a Sovereign's Clique Space made up of Agent Devices which are insufficiently capable of self-awareness and use this Agent Collaboration as a kind of Clique Space skin, endowing the individual with much of the ability to participate in collaborations mediated through Clique Space.
I think that the Sovereign Clique's member Participants may come to be considered sacred information knowable only to the individual manifest through the Agent Collaboration concerned. This is because the individual will want (and should have) unfettered possession of the Agent Devices which make up that individual; no one very much so in their right mind would want to unwillingly expose the mechanics responsible for their mind's functioning to the possibility of exploitation by external intentions. I believe the Sovereign's Clique Space mechanism is fit for the purposes of upholding the individual's sovereign and sacred nature.
All of this came together on today's walk. It appears to me to be a level higher than the synaptic map, but lower than an Agent Collaboration's Clique Space that might represent an entity formed of some cooperative endeavour; an Agent Collaboration's Clique Space which might otherwise be known as an organisation's Clique Space. I felt that my picture of this Clique Space strata needed some mechanism which set the manifestation of an individual through a Clique Space apart from the manifestation of an organisation through a Clique Space.
I had worried that something like this was missing from my deliberations for some years, and that what was missing was a mechanism of such profundity as would underscore an individual's sovereign (uncapitalised because I'm referring to the phenomenon rather than the component of my concept designed to capture this phenomenon), sacred and pre-eminent distinction; something which would endow the manifestation of the individual some distinguishing feature through which inalienable and inviolable rights afforded to an individual can then be assigned. The Sovereign's Clique Space is this mechanism; it uses nothing more than the core concepts given in the patent. It qualifies the Agent Collaboration's Clique Space which was given in the patent. The organisation's Clique Space is a version of the Agent Collaboration's Clique Space in which the Clique Space Clique would not have a name which is associated with a Sovereign Element identifier's value. All Agent Device members of the organisation Clique Space's Clique Space Clique would be members by consent of the individuals who claimed Sovereign possession of these members because an organisation's Clique Space Clique lacks the necessary mechanism to claim sovereign possession.
The Sovereign's Clique Space is a necessary middle level joining the potential for activity between individuals possible through an organisation's Clique Space, to the exchanging of Elements and their properties between any two Agent Devices which is the purpose of the synaptic map and the logical synapse.
So, it can be said that there are three basic layers to Clique Space, and each of these layers is denoted by a particular flavour of Clique Space. The bottom layer is concerned with the creation and transfer of Elements and their properties, is comprised of two Clique Spaces: the "synaptic map" and the "synapse". The second layer is concerned with the manifestation of or at least the interface for sentient participants, and its Clique Space is called the Sovereign's Clique Space. The third layer is the organisation's Clique Space, and this is where business and government organisations are manifest. I believe the middle layer, where notions of general sentience are situated, will complete the specification for a general medium which will become to be known by everyone who uses it, and who is manifest in it, as Clique Space.
To have come full-circle; starting with the Sovereign as the core Element of a core concept, then using the remaining core Elements and structures defined with them to bring a focus back to underscore the primacy of the Sovereign, is one of those things one does that induces pride and beauty in the aesthetic qualities of function. Something I have spent my lifetime chasing.
... of course, this has to work too.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Immortality in a Clique Space(TM) world.
Clique Space(TM); a concept permitting the existence of immortal beings?
This question is a contemplation which I have been entertaining because, as technology continues to evolve, our "selves" and the devices through which we express this strange quality are becoming more interrelated. We are getting closer to our contraptions; our contraptions are getting closer to ourselves.
We intuitively understand that an individual is expressed through a hominid form (a head, two arms, two legs, a torso, etc). But this is merely the impression we have formed over the past 3 or so million years. In Clique Space, the form, the manifestation, and hence, at least one Clique Space Identity defined by an individual, is a collection of devices, or rather a collection of Clique Space Connections, and a collection of capacities to act, or rather a collection of Clique Space Affiliations.
A Clique Space manifesting an individual is known as that individual's "sovereign" Clique Space. If each cell of our bodies is a device, then each cell can be represented as a Connection; there is nothing to prevent our current hominid form from being expressed in a sovereign Clique Space. The question of Affiliation in a sovereign Clique Space is not a concern, unless any neurons (the Agent Devices) of that individual's Clique Space form synapses with Agent Devices belonging to the sovereign Clique Space of another individual.
Perhaps something like a Vulkan mind-meld isn't too fanciful so long as both individuals have Clique Space aware nervous systems comprised of Agent Devices which can engage (form synapses) over some shared medium. In fact, this is precisely what Clique Space is designed to permit, and I'll talk some more about this a little later below.
In one model of my theory, each cell of a hominid body might be genetically engineered to interface amongst themselves using a synthetically (a product of the intellect rather than merely of the random process of mutation subject to selection which describes evolution, but then, the intellect only came about because of this process, so saying anything is truly synthetic is moot) generated collaboration structure modelled specifically through the body's neurons around a sovereign Clique Space. This sovereign Clique Space would be manifest by the collective action of this body's neurons (the Clique Space's Agent Devices); this Clique Space would in turn manifest the individual and one's singular self-identity.
In this model, the Clique Space is wholly contained in a hominid form, and in this model, I contend that there won't be too much to change because I think we will discover that our nervous system is already organised into very similar notions that I have expressed in my Clique Space concept. It might indeed be that other reasonably complicated intracellular (endocrine) mechanisms may also exhibit these properties, and conclude that the biological neural synapse is a specialised endocrine mechanism evolved specifically to communicate these as yet undiscovered biological equivalents of Clique Space Elements and their properties for the purpose of supporting and maintaining the wonderfully real illusion of individual self-identity.
So, a genetically engineered human body would represent an individual as a collection of devices, all of which are probably connected to a single Clique Space which represents this individual's body. This wonderful illusion of individual reality, corralled within one's own Clique Space, is manifest in one's own body. Any 'synthetic' individual sufficiently endowed with capacities equal to or greater than those of a regular person would have every reason to defend their presence if it were challenged by anyone else who appeared prejudiced enough to conclude their synthetic presence were artificial. Maybe these roles might reverse if the endowments were in the synthetic presence's favour.
An individual, even in hominid form, manifest from a Clique Space, is manifest through a system in which their own cognitive function can be viewed or persisted in real-time, provided the individual allows a View/persistence mechanism (V/PM) device to be connected to one or more of their sovereign Agent Device instances. This opportunity provides such individuals with a most exquisite way to control the way they work both within themselves, and with others.
Clique Space affords an individual a wider scope of existential possibilities. So, what about individuals who may not exist in hominid forms?
I conceived Clique Space in 2004 primarily because I wanted to give myself and other people access to a system that communicated activity of connected devices (phones, computers, cars, email, etc.) of one individual to one or more others according to mutual affinity of preferences amongst all parties. If you were a Clique Space user interested in whether I was doing some activity that I was permitting you to know about, then you would be able to find out. I am, indeed, permitting the communication of a version of my "self" (an Identity) to you by the fact that I am a member of a Clique in which you are also a member, or at least have the ability to observe through a V/PM device..
My Identity becomes diffuse through the Clique Space neural aether. An Identity which I project to you is not bound by my hominid form. Maybe, my "self" (I think I have adequately offered the notion of the Sovereign to represent this quality) can also shed its mortal hominid coil and migrate away from my human form. The administration of my Sovereign is highly profound task of self-identification that I would not share with anyone else.
An individual's Sovereign is the most sacred Element of that individual. One may only offer their Sovereign's identifier to another only in the most intimate of relationships, because one is really offering a property of themselves that drives most closely to the notion of one's own sovereignty. The Sovereign encloses within it properties that, even in the most intimate of circumstances, one individual should never share with another, lest that individual's self-identity become subsumed by another's. Certain Agent Devices known only to the individual must be, by the fact that they contain sacred information, the absolute property of that individual.
However, the individual in Clique Space may find that their presence can migrate outside of one's sovereignty boundaries. Sovereignty boundaries can be delineated by Clique Space membership. Agent Devices which are members of a sovereign Clique Space boundary are Participants in the Clique Space's Clique; something that the individual, manifest by these Agent Devices, may wish also to keep to themselves.
The mechanics made possible through a neural network of autonomous Agent Device instances allow individuals to cohabit the aether formed through these Agent Device interconnections by projecting Clique Space Elements through Agent Device instances which are members of others' sovereign Clique Space boundaries. Clique Spaces can be formed which do not represent an individual; these Clique Spaces represent a coalition of individuals, and incorporate Agent Devices as members of the non-sovereign Clique Space's Clique from various individuals which offer their support to the existence of this Clique Space. I believe that non-sovereign Clique Spaces allow organisations and governments to represent themselves appropriately in a world where individual sovereignty is held in a society as being that which is valued most.
The individual may also consider other Elements and properties of other Elements to be sacred, and will likewise limit their disclosure amongst Agent Devices within the sovereign boundary; the Clique Space Clique and its member Participants are one such collection of properties. Yet still, the individual can project themselves through others by disclosing Identities, Connections, Affiliations, and Participants to other individuals' Agent Devices.
The definition of the self becomes far more formalised through Clique Space than it ever can be in the a world where the individual's sovereignty is limited by the physical boundaries currently imposed by one's current hominid form. These boundaries will break down in a Clique Space future, but yet again, they will become more recognisable.
Such an individual, free of existence within a human body, will exist in other media which would persist beyond a human body. An individual can acquire Agent Devices indefinitely. Provided a continuity of presence can be maintained, an individual can prolong their existence indefinitely by a process of gradual migration through a sovereign Clique Space. Agent Devices would become a very dear commodity to such individuals; more Agent Devices promise more complicated behaviour.
Hence, collections of Agent Devices, all of which are members of an individual's sovereign Clique Space boundary, would be guarded by the individual manifest by these Agent Devices. If the capability of an individual may be physically limited only by the number and synaptic configuration of the Agent Devices within their sovereign Clique Space boundary, then individuals may indeed covet the capabilities which the acquisition of these Agent Device instances would endow.
Imagine the following bizarre scenarios! While Clique Space would promise the individual release from a human form, this release might also deliver a greater urgency to guard against the possibility of insidious violations to one's own sacred self-identity. Ecosystems might form around coalitions to protect and to predate on a consistent self-identity. The breakdown of self-identity in a breach of Clique Space sovereignty would be the most subversively insidious thing that can happen to these individuals. It would be so destabilising to the victim that only the victim's friends and associates might pick out that something is amiss.
Maybe, even an economy could form where individuals allow the trade or even perhaps the "lease" of clusters of one's own sovereign Agent Device instances for gains elsewhere in their lives. In fact, Clique Space is designed for this very purpose. Even though an Agent Device can be a member of precisely one sovereign Clique Space (that Clique Space in which the Sovereign containing sacred properties belongs), an Agent Device can potentially federate with members of other Clique Spaces, even Clique Spaces that don't represent a single individual. Agent Devices do this by acquiring Elements for other Clique Spaces as the need dictates.
Clique Space is a very fluid environment. I believe that Clique Space is also a very stable environment. I believe that a Clique Space can but needn't exist to manifest individuals. However, individuals who are manifest purely as sovereign Clique Spaces have the potential to be immortal by the fact that the Agent Devices which are members of their sovereign Clique Space's Clique can be replaced indefinitely.
Individuals manifest in other forms than through a Clique Space (a human being, perhaps) would not want the cluster of Agent Devices that represent their sovereign Clique Space to acquire any great degree of autonomy from which a distinct self-awareness may emerge lest this Clique Space decides to "go it alone". It might therefore be a better idea perhaps to keep their sovereign cluster relatively small unless or until the individual can migrate one's self-identity through the physical boundary of their biological neural network into their sovereign Clique Space and too, become a sentience wholly expressed through a synthetic neural medium.
This question is a contemplation which I have been entertaining because, as technology continues to evolve, our "selves" and the devices through which we express this strange quality are becoming more interrelated. We are getting closer to our contraptions; our contraptions are getting closer to ourselves.
We intuitively understand that an individual is expressed through a hominid form (a head, two arms, two legs, a torso, etc). But this is merely the impression we have formed over the past 3 or so million years. In Clique Space, the form, the manifestation, and hence, at least one Clique Space Identity defined by an individual, is a collection of devices, or rather a collection of Clique Space Connections, and a collection of capacities to act, or rather a collection of Clique Space Affiliations.
A Clique Space manifesting an individual is known as that individual's "sovereign" Clique Space. If each cell of our bodies is a device, then each cell can be represented as a Connection; there is nothing to prevent our current hominid form from being expressed in a sovereign Clique Space. The question of Affiliation in a sovereign Clique Space is not a concern, unless any neurons (the Agent Devices) of that individual's Clique Space form synapses with Agent Devices belonging to the sovereign Clique Space of another individual.
Perhaps something like a Vulkan mind-meld isn't too fanciful so long as both individuals have Clique Space aware nervous systems comprised of Agent Devices which can engage (form synapses) over some shared medium. In fact, this is precisely what Clique Space is designed to permit, and I'll talk some more about this a little later below.
In one model of my theory, each cell of a hominid body might be genetically engineered to interface amongst themselves using a synthetically (a product of the intellect rather than merely of the random process of mutation subject to selection which describes evolution, but then, the intellect only came about because of this process, so saying anything is truly synthetic is moot) generated collaboration structure modelled specifically through the body's neurons around a sovereign Clique Space. This sovereign Clique Space would be manifest by the collective action of this body's neurons (the Clique Space's Agent Devices); this Clique Space would in turn manifest the individual and one's singular self-identity.
In this model, the Clique Space is wholly contained in a hominid form, and in this model, I contend that there won't be too much to change because I think we will discover that our nervous system is already organised into very similar notions that I have expressed in my Clique Space concept. It might indeed be that other reasonably complicated intracellular (endocrine) mechanisms may also exhibit these properties, and conclude that the biological neural synapse is a specialised endocrine mechanism evolved specifically to communicate these as yet undiscovered biological equivalents of Clique Space Elements and their properties for the purpose of supporting and maintaining the wonderfully real illusion of individual self-identity.
So, a genetically engineered human body would represent an individual as a collection of devices, all of which are probably connected to a single Clique Space which represents this individual's body. This wonderful illusion of individual reality, corralled within one's own Clique Space, is manifest in one's own body. Any 'synthetic' individual sufficiently endowed with capacities equal to or greater than those of a regular person would have every reason to defend their presence if it were challenged by anyone else who appeared prejudiced enough to conclude their synthetic presence were artificial. Maybe these roles might reverse if the endowments were in the synthetic presence's favour.
An individual, even in hominid form, manifest from a Clique Space, is manifest through a system in which their own cognitive function can be viewed or persisted in real-time, provided the individual allows a View/persistence mechanism (V/PM) device to be connected to one or more of their sovereign Agent Device instances. This opportunity provides such individuals with a most exquisite way to control the way they work both within themselves, and with others.
Clique Space affords an individual a wider scope of existential possibilities. So, what about individuals who may not exist in hominid forms?
I conceived Clique Space in 2004 primarily because I wanted to give myself and other people access to a system that communicated activity of connected devices (phones, computers, cars, email, etc.) of one individual to one or more others according to mutual affinity of preferences amongst all parties. If you were a Clique Space user interested in whether I was doing some activity that I was permitting you to know about, then you would be able to find out. I am, indeed, permitting the communication of a version of my "self" (an Identity) to you by the fact that I am a member of a Clique in which you are also a member, or at least have the ability to observe through a V/PM device..
My Identity becomes diffuse through the Clique Space neural aether. An Identity which I project to you is not bound by my hominid form. Maybe, my "self" (I think I have adequately offered the notion of the Sovereign to represent this quality) can also shed its mortal hominid coil and migrate away from my human form. The administration of my Sovereign is highly profound task of self-identification that I would not share with anyone else.
An individual's Sovereign is the most sacred Element of that individual. One may only offer their Sovereign's identifier to another only in the most intimate of relationships, because one is really offering a property of themselves that drives most closely to the notion of one's own sovereignty. The Sovereign encloses within it properties that, even in the most intimate of circumstances, one individual should never share with another, lest that individual's self-identity become subsumed by another's. Certain Agent Devices known only to the individual must be, by the fact that they contain sacred information, the absolute property of that individual.
However, the individual in Clique Space may find that their presence can migrate outside of one's sovereignty boundaries. Sovereignty boundaries can be delineated by Clique Space membership. Agent Devices which are members of a sovereign Clique Space boundary are Participants in the Clique Space's Clique; something that the individual, manifest by these Agent Devices, may wish also to keep to themselves.
The mechanics made possible through a neural network of autonomous Agent Device instances allow individuals to cohabit the aether formed through these Agent Device interconnections by projecting Clique Space Elements through Agent Device instances which are members of others' sovereign Clique Space boundaries. Clique Spaces can be formed which do not represent an individual; these Clique Spaces represent a coalition of individuals, and incorporate Agent Devices as members of the non-sovereign Clique Space's Clique from various individuals which offer their support to the existence of this Clique Space. I believe that non-sovereign Clique Spaces allow organisations and governments to represent themselves appropriately in a world where individual sovereignty is held in a society as being that which is valued most.
The individual may also consider other Elements and properties of other Elements to be sacred, and will likewise limit their disclosure amongst Agent Devices within the sovereign boundary; the Clique Space Clique and its member Participants are one such collection of properties. Yet still, the individual can project themselves through others by disclosing Identities, Connections, Affiliations, and Participants to other individuals' Agent Devices.
The definition of the self becomes far more formalised through Clique Space than it ever can be in the a world where the individual's sovereignty is limited by the physical boundaries currently imposed by one's current hominid form. These boundaries will break down in a Clique Space future, but yet again, they will become more recognisable.
Such an individual, free of existence within a human body, will exist in other media which would persist beyond a human body. An individual can acquire Agent Devices indefinitely. Provided a continuity of presence can be maintained, an individual can prolong their existence indefinitely by a process of gradual migration through a sovereign Clique Space. Agent Devices would become a very dear commodity to such individuals; more Agent Devices promise more complicated behaviour.
Hence, collections of Agent Devices, all of which are members of an individual's sovereign Clique Space boundary, would be guarded by the individual manifest by these Agent Devices. If the capability of an individual may be physically limited only by the number and synaptic configuration of the Agent Devices within their sovereign Clique Space boundary, then individuals may indeed covet the capabilities which the acquisition of these Agent Device instances would endow.
Imagine the following bizarre scenarios! While Clique Space would promise the individual release from a human form, this release might also deliver a greater urgency to guard against the possibility of insidious violations to one's own sacred self-identity. Ecosystems might form around coalitions to protect and to predate on a consistent self-identity. The breakdown of self-identity in a breach of Clique Space sovereignty would be the most subversively insidious thing that can happen to these individuals. It would be so destabilising to the victim that only the victim's friends and associates might pick out that something is amiss.
Maybe, even an economy could form where individuals allow the trade or even perhaps the "lease" of clusters of one's own sovereign Agent Device instances for gains elsewhere in their lives. In fact, Clique Space is designed for this very purpose. Even though an Agent Device can be a member of precisely one sovereign Clique Space (that Clique Space in which the Sovereign containing sacred properties belongs), an Agent Device can potentially federate with members of other Clique Spaces, even Clique Spaces that don't represent a single individual. Agent Devices do this by acquiring Elements for other Clique Spaces as the need dictates.
Clique Space is a very fluid environment. I believe that Clique Space is also a very stable environment. I believe that a Clique Space can but needn't exist to manifest individuals. However, individuals who are manifest purely as sovereign Clique Spaces have the potential to be immortal by the fact that the Agent Devices which are members of their sovereign Clique Space's Clique can be replaced indefinitely.
Individuals manifest in other forms than through a Clique Space (a human being, perhaps) would not want the cluster of Agent Devices that represent their sovereign Clique Space to acquire any great degree of autonomy from which a distinct self-awareness may emerge lest this Clique Space decides to "go it alone". It might therefore be a better idea perhaps to keep their sovereign cluster relatively small unless or until the individual can migrate one's self-identity through the physical boundary of their biological neural network into their sovereign Clique Space and too, become a sentience wholly expressed through a synthetic neural medium.
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