Friday, April 29, 2016

The Ten Cardinal Laws of Robotics


1. The mind contains no information at birth.

Some people believe that at the time humans and animals are born, their minds already contain some type of information; instinctive by nature. This cache is believed to contain inborn information that will help them to live and survive in the chaotic world. However this notion is false and can be proven to be wrong (eg. a newborn kitten drowning survives due to its cylindrical body structure and not by instinct). A thought experiment called the Caveman in the Box provides evidence that information has to be acquired first, learned, understood and processed before it becomes intelligence or consciousness. Like information in a hard drive,  its data is useless unless it is read and processed. Its algorithmic procedure is useless unless it is logically executed. Its repetitive execution is nonsense unless its concrete objective is systematically delivered. Thus, information must be engraved (written) first, stored next, and read afterwards. A newborn's mind has no capacity and capability to do all these tasks.

2. Information flows from the outside world into the inner mind

A concept of an apple is nothing but a piece of information. It is an abstract idea without any meaning at all. It stays abstract inside the mind. However when the idea is associated with something, like with the real fruit, it becomes physical, an object with dimensions, with meaning. It becomes real, with physical attributes, and governed by natural laws. The idea of the apple, which is associated with a physical fruit, becomes real and now exist. The abstract concept becomes a physical reality (or is it so?) (Information Materialization)

3. Information originates from Nature

Before humans and the mind have evolved, Mother Nature has already in existence. The sun, moon, light, sea, sands, trees, animals and the universe as a whole has already existed before us. They are the inherent, intrinsic, physical objects that came before us (Originemology). They are the early pieces of information that fed our ancestors minds. Trough our biological senses, we mimic some animal behaviors, copy their habits and even perform their social ways in our own restrictive manners just like they are restricted. As we develop our brains and understand our surroundings, we learn to create new ideas. As necessity comes, we begin to invent. We make new things totally different from the inherent world. We add a new world - an accidental, casual, and extrinsic world - parallel but totally different from the inherent world.

4. Information can only be acquired in two ways.

But, whatever information Nature provides us, information can only be acquired in two and only two ways: by Choice or by Chance (The Algorithmic Queue). The process of acquisition is a linear progression; the key that will turn our robots from mechanical to biological. And perhaps eventually to another level of evolving maturity - Artificial Consciousness (ACO).

5. Information comes in and comes out as information.

However, the inherent world is a physical world. It is made up of concrete objects. These objects are basically classified as solid, liquid and gas. These pieces of information in general are called as Physicals. They are real that can be sensed. They are governed by natural laws. They evolve through the process of "this" or "that". (The Law of Second Option)

6. Ideas are not physicals, they are always abstracts.

On the other hand, Ideas are the product of these physical world. Without the physical world,  Ideas will not exist. Ideas are not real but a mirror, a replication of the outside world. Ideas, or subjects, are called as the Abstracts. They are not concrete, solid, or exact. They are subjective. They are all just assumptions created by ones mind. Because of this restriction or difficulty humans can't create a man made fruit exactly like an apple, a man made aircraft that performs like a real bird, a man made boat that swims like a real fish. Nature doesn't permit these type of transcreation.  (The Zizo Effect)

7. Man can't think of something without associating his thought with an object.

The mind can't think of something without associating it with a physical object. This is called the Codexation Dilemma.

8. Information doesn't jump from abstract to physical.

The gap between physicals and abstracts are totally immaterial. Physicals are totally different from Abstracts. Physicals beget Physicals and Abstracts beget Abstracts. They can't both interchange. Physicals don't flow to Abstracts and vice-versa.  Even the Zizo Effect will not permit this type of transconversion. (The Scription Jump)

9. All ideas created by humans are just assumptions.

The mind can only conceptualize but it can't exactly duplicate the objects of the inherent world. It can build an airplane but it can't build a bird. It can build a submarine but it can't build a fish. It can build a car but it cant build an Impala.Thus humans inventions are all but assumptions, circumstantial, guesses. They are not even close to reality of the inherent world. Likewise, Humans cannot create what Nature can create and Nature cannot create what Humans can create. (The Guesswork Predicament).

10. Information creates Existence through Inscription by Design .

Physical and Abstracts are made up of Space and Shape. Objects are made up of space and shapes. Ideas are made up of space and shapes. Both seems to exist but their existence are created by shapes and spaces. Shapes will not exist without spaces. Spaces will not exist without shapes. Both must exist to create something out from nothing. (The iParticle Paradox).

Excerpt: The Silver Species by Joey Lawsin

The 10 Cardinal Laws of Robotics, known as Codex, are based from the study on Information Realization. Humans and Robots are similar in many ways but short in one attribute; Consciousness. However, there are some animals or organisms that are conscious but lack the physical brains or minds. Plants are considered  alive or with life, and some of them are aware of their environment as claimed by some scientists. If this is true where are the brains of these plants and animals? These examples take us to wonder is the brain really necessary to be a conscious being? Or, is consciousness all but electro-mechanical? A Cause and Effect? Stimulus and Response? Or it is nothing but Information Materialization?


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"Without the physical world,  Ideas will not exist."  ~ Joey Lawsin
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