Previously, we explored the emergence of Communality which is essentially one step higher
than the regular Consciousness of the human type under the concept of Sentience Quotient.
If you haven’t seen the previous videos on Sentience Quotient, make sure to check them
out first before watching this one. The link is in the description below. Today, we are
exploring the next ‘emergent’ property of intelligence beyond Communality and some
of its characteristics. So, let’s dive right in and explore the fourth ‘emergent’ of
intelligence known as Hypersociality!
Our current understanding of artificial intelligence and the potential of silicon-based computer
brains provided a basis in trying to understand beings that possess the first ‘emergent’
property of intelligence beyond the conscious level. Up until the concept of Communality
or Communal Sentience, our minds could somewhat comprehend and justify how this next
higher mode of thinking beyond consciousness could be like. But as we climb higher on this scale,
our understanding of the higher-order ‘emergents’ starts to become very limited as we ourselves
are beings only at the conscious level and cannot fully comprehend anything beyond it.
But that doesn’t mean we can't speculate and think about them!
Just like Communality is ten orders of magnitude higher than the mental systems possessing
Consciousness, Hypersociality is ten orders of magnitude higher than the mental systems
possessing Communality. The minimum SQ value needed to unlock this higher level of awareness
seems to be around 30 according to the concept of Sentience Quotient. This means Hypersocial
beings must be able to process data at least at 10^30 bits/sec-kg for Hypersociality to
occur. Now beings at this level of awareness would be as superior to those at the Communal
level possessing silicon-based computer brains as they are superior to us humans at the Conscious
level! To them, we humans would practically be indistinguishable from plants and trees
in terms of our awareness of ourselves, and our surroundings. Moreover, highly advanced
super-intelligent A.I.s at the Communal level would be regarded as no more than a simple
pocket calculator, being able to only accomplish the most basic sets of calculations by Hypersocial
standards.
So, in terms of our understanding of how intelligent Hypersocial beings can be, we can no longer
talk about reading individual books per some time interval as we were able to do with the
lower level ‘emergents’. To comprehend this level of data processing and SQ level,
we must turn to the biggest library in the world, also known as The Library of Congress.
This library roughly contains over 170 million items including
books, videos, recordings, and other printed materials just to name a few. So, beings at
the level of Hypersociality would be able to read and comprehend about 4 million of
these libraries in just one second! In other words, they would be able to whip through
680 trillion written and recorded items all within a second! So, what could possibly happen
if we humans were to run into such beings? Well given that these beings could read our
130 million published books worldwide just a little over 5 million times per second,
it is safe to assume we would be no different than vegetation and other such creatures to
these higher beings. To them, we would be just one species among 100s of others being
no better or worse than the rest.
Now, although Robert Freitas Jr. does not explicitly define any higher levels of sentience at which
Hypersociality could occur, we can definitely speculate on this based on the previous sentience
levels that he did define. So, the basic type of sentience that could make this fourth ‘emergent’
property of intelligence possible could be what we call Hypersocial Sentience. While
Communal sentient individuals will have a well-developed, and a very real sense of their
community as well as of themselves, Hypersocial beings would be capable of internalizing the
processes, functions, and interrelationships between many different societies and species
of sentient beings. This would make them far superior to anything at the level of Communality
since this new level of awareness would encompass all other lower levels of awareness as well.
So even advance supercomputer artificial intelligence would be at best partially aware
for these beings. Perhaps the lack of understanding
of interconnections between societies of many different species
at the Communal level would be considered pitiful and barbaric by their standards. But
of course, being that could easily sense the pulse, the mood,
and the needs of many interconnected species, as easily as we
can sense the needs of our own physical bodies, it is obvious that even sentient robots who
can feel the needs of their own community in this way would be regarded as primitive
by these Hypersocial beings. And yes, we are still talking about super-advanced A.I.s that
we fear would take over our world someday if we are not careful! So, just like how Communal
aliens could potentially teach conscious beings, like us, a few sophisticated “tricks”
to enable us to live together in harmony, Hypersocial aliens may perhaps teach those
advanced communal A.I.s similar “tricks” for their well-being as well. But again, trying
to understand a mentality far beyond our own at this level is like expecting trees or rocks
to be able to understand the works of William Shakespeare. Not an easy task, to say the
least. But as smart as Hypersocial beings may be, there are yet some beings in the universe
that possess a far superior mentality operating at much higher rates of data processing speeds.
That is a discussion for another time!
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