THE IDEAL BRAIN
First, imagine an immature human brain, a baby’s brain for example, that has been carefully and expertly extracted (for whatever reason) from the rest of the baby’s body and kept alive and operative in a laboratory, fed in such a way that it is also able to keep growing.
Next, imagine the brain is injected with self-reproducing nano particles, each of them a tiny quantum computer that can assimilate and transmit vast amounts of information to a massive central computer that the brain is wired to. Despite this immense gathering of information, the brain itself has no sensory input and the mind created by the brain is sensorially-speaking, completely ignorant to the reality in the space that surrounds it. Nevertheless, the mind does receive stimulation from the information transmitted by the nano particles that are self-producing in a certain, tiny section of the brain.
From this information the brain’s mind starts to gather its own perception of things and, one could say, it begins to live its own experience which would have been impossible without the input it receives from the nano particles inside it.
As the nano particles gather more and more information about their own physical environment (which is confined to the interior, organic mechanics of the brain itself) so does the brain develop its own picture, both in the real and the imagined sense of itself.
Much of this scrambled perception is retransmitted back to the individual nano particles in a scrambled way in the forms of dreams, which the artificial intelligence, used in the programming of the software embedded in the nano particles, usually has no trouble distinguishing from the physical reality of the environment that is being explored. Nevertheless, the dream experiences do influence in an incrementive way the creative capacity that is a necessary element in the programming of the nanos for the artificial intelligence of their software to work. And so, from these dreams, the artificial intelligence operating in the brain is able to imagine possibilities.
Gradually the artificial intelligence driving the interconnected nano probes learns how to use the physical resources of the brain it occupies. By doing this, it is able to tap into the brain’s own neural energy sources to develop the nano machines own technologies and build a comfortable environment, territorialising the tiny location they have in the brain. Along with this territorialisation process the nano particles, through their artificial intelligence minds, can begin to relate to their segment of the brain in a fashion not unlike what we would call being at home.
Eventually, however, the initial home space becomes crowded as the nano particles reproduce themselves at rapid rates, and the nano particles are able to reprogramme themselves in ways that allow them to explore and territorialise other regions of the brain, even coming into contact with other nano particles that had been injected into other parts of the brain in the initial days of the experiment.
With time, the artificial intelligence deduces that the world they inhabit will eventually deteriorate, become dysfunctional and perish, annihilating what the artificial intelligence of the nano particles understood to be the entire conglomerate of existence itself (for what could possible exist outside of this universe – the brain – that they inhabited).
By this time, the nano particles have become more and more individualistic and have started to disassociate their own intelligence from the central intelligence they all feed into and draw from. Because of this, the tremendous discovery that existence is ephemeral is able to spark debate between the individual particles. This discussion develops into philosophical conclusions and an evolution toward a collective belief in the moral necessity of existence itself as that which is all-good, as well as a cultural preoccupation with the problematic of non-existence, as that which is evil.
Likewise, the communities of individual nano particles find a new incentive and turn their artificial intelligence motors and creative abilities toward solving the problem of how to maintain the brain in a fully operative, healthy existence for eternity. This is the beginning of a new and truly fantastic era for the nano-particle civilisation as they realise the unlimited aspects of their potentials, both as individual particles and as a harmonious whole in tune with the desires of the greater intellect of the artificial intelligence software that was the basic force driving them all.
