General talk about software patterns

["Mike Beedle" <beedlem AT e-architects.com>]

http://www.computing.co.uk/News/1143845

My votes go to:

        1) 1. IVIS: In Vivo <-> In Silico 
        (similar to some Feyerabend goals 
        in the past:
        http://www.dreamsongs.org/Feyerabend/BiologicalFramings.html
        Alife:
        http://www.alife.org
        *(Check out the latest proceedings at:
        http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/complex/alife8/)
        and of the Living Metaphor project:
        http://www.livingmetaphor.org

        2) 5. Architecture of Brain and Mind

        3) 7. Journeys in Non-Classical Computing
        (Similar to 1 but with the metaphor twist.)

- Mike

        "I self-organize therefore I am."

Side note:  Will that be you or something else?

Is you, your physical you? your mind? your consciousness? 
or your soul?  The likely answer is all of the above as far as 
we know today.

But within the next 10 years we will be able to save 
exact neural net replicas of our minds to persistence, and 
possibly within the next 30 years we might attain 
"artificial consciousness" through robotic extensions
for these images of our minds.

Will there be "you" in that?

Moreover, in the next 50-100 years we will be able to use 
gene treatment to manipulate the growth and characteristics 
of any human tissue, you could then simply "fix yourself 
through gene drugs and live almost forever", "enhance yourself 
through gene drugs" -- if you can afford it, or download 
an image of your mind to another physical or artificial 
brain or being, and _be_ there as an invited or uninvited 
guest.

But will there be some of "you" in that?

One day we will have the choice to answer:

     "What you do you want to be today?"

But I don't mean just "what saved or altered image of you 
do you want to run or be today?".

Even among all options above it makes sense to ask:

      "What you do you want to be today?"