Topic: Using the blockchain to create/power sentient robotic life - page 3. (Read 2699 times)

The blockchain *might* be a good fit because of it's decentralization. Our body, how our brain reacts with the various parts(via spinal cord) could be compared to a decentralized network in some ways. Most, if not all, our memories are stored in the brain, the blockchain stores transactions on a permanent ledger, mining "powers" the blockchain and allows for changes to happen via consensus, the brain "powers" the body and allows at least for voluntary changes(There are things we do that are involuntary, such as breathing etc), etc and etc.

I am afraid we can't even emulate really simple brains of rodents this way. They are still too complicated. And I have a question? Why do you want use blockchain for that? Do you really think it is the best to create artificial AI?

We haven't even "decoded" the human brain yet-it has around 100billion neurons. So yea a rat's would be much more plausible atm.

Nice find, another interesting read... But i also agree, i think a rats brain is much more likely/possible. then maybe with more development we could get to the level of a chimpanzee or something, but i think the human brain would take a long time. 

I just found something a bit similar to this(https://bitcointa.lk/threads/putting-a-person-on-a-block-chain.338246/), though it speaks about the concept of placing human "consciousness" on the blockchain(I think something simpler than a human brain) like a rat's, would be more feasible, if possible at all.

I've thought about this generally(Without any specific details on how it could work)for a quite a while but never bothered to "put it out there". Hopefully someone else has also thought of something similar to this and is actually working on it.

Well this is a very clever and interesting thought... sounds really sci-fi too. I think it sounds possible

I know this may sound a bit, well "crazy" to some. But basically Bitcoin is decentralized, the human body in a way of sorts, is also decentralized. The brain itself may be compared to mining pools where they allow things to happen according to consensus, so such a system would have to be similar to mining(Maybe not as secure nor "decentralized"-solo mining, and it would need to be in a "loop" or functioning on it's own without need for a external source(mining?), or not, maybe this "external source" would be similar to a biological organism needing food and water to "live").

Has anyone else thought of this, using Bitcoin's blockchain to create a sort of sentient artificial intelligence/body? I'm not talking about a highly advanced robot like in The Terminator/Matrix movies or anything, just something simple or comparable to maybe a small multi celled organism like a rodent.

Maybe the brain could use one, central blockchain, and the other major organs or what ought to represent them, use other lesser blockchains that relay information back and forth, things like colored coins could come into play representing various cells found throughout biological bodies like red/white blood cells etc, mining could rely information back and forth or a process similar. Instead of relaying transactions and inputs/outputs or what forms "coins", maybe a substitute for information such as "thoughts", "emotions"(more specifically the hormones that are responsible for such emotions) could be transacted back and forth instead, there would need to be physical hardware built such as heat sensors, touch, etc for "thoughts" or reactions based upon the "senses" even become feasible, and there'd need to be a way to store memories similar to the cerebrum, hippocampus and other areas responsible for memory in the brain.  Aargh, but that's just the little that I could come up with for the moment.

EDIT: The above talks about hardware based AGI(Artifical General Intelligence), most of that could probably be cut for a software based AGI.