[Please note this is a ‘workbench’ project which means it is currently work in progress.]
One of the interesting insights that came out of my brain model was the fact that the Anger and Aggression Algorithm is not responsible for the wars and all the bloodshed around the world – it is the Innovation Algorithm.
If we can remove the Innovation Algorithm from the human mind (we can easily do this with Xzistor Concept robots), we can immediately limit anger and aggression related behaviours to a level of physical conflict limited to fist fights. The worst fight between humans will be very similar to the one between two male gorillas shown below.
In nature fights among male animals normally do not involve ‘tools’. It is mostly just body parts that are involved – fists, horns, tails, paws, teeth, etc. A small percentage of these animals die or are scarred during these altercations – but nature is careful not to kill them off as survival remains absolutely paramount.
But throw in the Innovation Algorithm where we (humans) learn to solve problems, and suddenly we learn to use tools – first just a stone, then a sharp stick, then a hand axe, bow and arrow, spears and swords, rifles and cannons, machine guns, missiles, nuclear bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles. And suddenly the naked ape is able to do what is shown in the video below (just a random video I grabbed from YouTube).
The two living creatures (humans) shown in the video below differ only 2% genetically (Scientific American reference) from the living creatures (gorillas) in the first video – and yet because of the Innovation Algorithm they are able to take fighting to a mind-blowing level using very sophisticated tools. (I was actually shocked myself while writing this by these facts!).
An Innovation Algorithm which is principally the same runs in Troopy’s brain as discussed in the demo video on Hunger (he learns all by himself to push the correct button to open the food source). Because of this game-changer algorithm, I have been trying to find the earliest evidence of when this algorithm started to make itself known. Hence my interest in this news article from the BBC (see below).
Europe’s earliest bone tools found in Britain
By Paul Rincon, Science editor, BBC News website
Link to the article.
So in the news article by Paul Rincon above they say they have found the earliest evidence of the use of ‘tools’ in Europe in the UK – going back 500,000 years. The simple tools were made by the species Homo heidelbergensis, which is a possible ancestor for modern humans and Neanderthals. The oldest bone found in the UK was also found at this site – a shin bone from one of these early ‘tool users’.
I have been studying the history of the UK way back because of the evidence of early innovation but it is still interesting to me that these people were gifted with that early innovation tendency which gave them a head start…and lead to many early inventions and eventually the British Empire. I visited the Iron Bridge area and marveled at why melting iron started right there, and not elsewhere in the world?
There seem to have been something in the makeup of the early Brits that gave them a head start. It was also here that the Industrial Revolution started…and even today they are still leaders when it comes to many groundbreaking technologies…
That moment when we stopped being animals and the Innovation Algorithm started stirring in the brains of early humans fascinates me? Was it intended? Was it a mistake? Was it a last ditch evolutionary intervention in order to survive extreme icy winters?
I though about this a little and realised it was intended – it was designed in from the earliest times. Why do I say that? Well, we see that human babies are not born with the same reflexes as animals to ensure early survival. They are wholly dependent on the care of their parents. Parents that were given the capability to think and to innovate – and to use intelligence rather than instincts.
So why was it designed in?
Nature has proven it can successfully design/evolve living creatures that do not innovate. Nature got this right in 8.7 millions instances (this is how many species of animal their is in the world – most still not discovered! BBC News). Why would it fail with the human?
Why was one species given one simple additional circuit that can make it develop to the point where it can destroy all human and animal life on the planet, build machines to go to the moon and design robots are smarter than itself. A circuit that makes us ‘aware’ and makes us more intelligent than animals, but a circuit that also makes us stress, get anxious, get depressed, abuse substances, commit suicide…
It is imperative that we use the Xzistor Concept to understand this algorithm, this simple circuit that we were gifted with, and think carefully where and when we bestow it upon the robots of the future.