Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future
An essay by Martin Rees, Edge, dated 2015. Edge page files the response under "2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?"; no day given.
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- Organic Intelligence Has No Long-Term Future Edge (edge.org), response to the 2015 Edge Question "What do you think about machines that think?" · published 2015 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 26dfac49b3f77165baa935db5c6285aac74a6980e0115285c52c103257cf6f13). Current Edge response page (response-detail/26160) under "2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?".
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- Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligenceRees's Edge response of 2015 states that, in a long-term evolutionary perspective, humans will be “a transient and primitive precursor” of a machine-dominated culture extending into the far future and beyond the Earth.2015 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence: propositions page →
- Superiority by many orders of magnitudeRees's Edge response of 2015 states that non-biological "brains" may develop insights as far beyond human imaginings as string theory is for a mouse, and that the development of silicon-based computers could be as dramatic as the evolution from single-celled organisms to humans.2015 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Superiority by many orders of magnitude: propositions page →
- Machine intelligence as a physical or cosmic processRees's Edge response of 2015 places the rise of machine intelligence in a long-term evolutionary perspective, as a stage after organic intelligence, and suggests that aliens on older worlds have likely already passed beyond the organic stage.2015 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machine intelligence as a physical or cosmic process: propositions page →
- Machine intelligence spreads beyond EarthRees's Edge response of 2015 states that a machine-dominated culture will spread far beyond the Earth, and that interplanetary and interstellar space will be the preferred arena for advanced AI.2015 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth: propositions page →
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