Blog Organization
This blog is a series of posts outlining the building blocks necessary for nature to build its own computer without any biological help. It will posit scenarios that could have developed over millions of years in multiple locations on earth and other galaxies. The mechanisms presented are only guesses but the physical sequence of events could occur and are much easier to justify than life forms spontaneously appearing in the primordial soup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
Each step in forming a functioning digital computer using limited resources will obviously be speculation. Unlike biological evolution which requires each generation of organisms to survive, computer parts could lie dormant for thousands of years and be reactivated when linked to another computer. The first few chapters deal with the implementation of logic gates in natural sites such as layers of silicon produced by thousands of volcanoes. The reader does not need to understand all of the steps, but merely be aware that it is “possible” for logical “gates” to exist in nature and that the earth had 3,000,000,000 years to develop it.
Specifically, the elements to create a thinking, cognisant machine are
- Perception of surroundings
- Analyze those perceptions using digital or analog logic devices
- Regulating sequencing of algorithms using a clocking mechanism
- Storing information for analysis and decision making
- Communicating with other computing devices
- Detecting faulty hardware to minimize malfunctions
- Develop a sequential processing environment using clock control
- Develop a supervisory state to oversee operational routines
- Develop agency to manipulate matter and create novel objects
- Non-organic manipulators
- Simple biological machines
- Develop the DNA model for organism design and construction
- Play Dough Lab
- Creation of man in God’s Image
Interaction with the reader
I initially created citations pointing to original sources but changed as many as I could to Wikipedia articles for many reasons.
- You can hover over the link (some browsers may require you to click to get the preview) and get the first few sentences of the article
- You can go to the article and go down “the rabbit hole” are far as you need to go to get the point
- Textbook article entries give a summary of the book when full access is not available. The bibliography usually provides other articles or books by the author.
- Many of my direct links would point to restricted publications that I have access to thru my research for my Pathologist wife.
- Wikipedia does a pretty good job keeping links current
- Wikipedia is an excellent example of a “stream of consciousness” abduction
