Brain

A Brain is a sophisticated Bright Age Information Technology computer without a significant personality.

• Example/s: Ship's Computer, Traffic Net Controller, Parallel Research Network, etc.

Library Data Referral Tree

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Information Technology

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• I: Information Technology (Info-)
  • Brain
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer
  • Computer Software
  • Computronium
  • Data Repository
  • Datanet
  • Electronics
  • Machine Life
  • Personality
  • Ship's Computer
  • Skillset
  • Wafer

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• C: Cognitive Science / Cybertechnology (Cogno-)
  • Android
  • Augment
  • Cybernetics
  • Cyborg
  • Pseudobiological Robot
  • Robot
  • Total-Integration Process
  • Wafertech

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• E: Education in Charted Space
  • Educational Technologies
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computers
    • Computer Software
    • Cyberware
    • Skillsets
    • Wafers
  • Institutions of Learning
    • Data Repository
    • Educational Institutes
    • Psionics Institutes

Description (Specifications)

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Brains, Minds & Personalities

Very advanced computers begin to develop various types of autonomous programming and are referred to with other specialized terms:

Brains, Minds & Personalities
Term	Remarks
Brain	A Brain is a sophisticated Bright Age Information Technology computer without a significant personality. Example/s: Ship's Computer, Traffic Net Controller, Parallel Research Network, etc.
Mind	A Mind is a sophisticated Bright Age Information Technology computer with a significant personality. Example/s: City Brain, Ship Brain, many robots, etc.
Personality	A Personality is a Bright to Brilliant Age feature of sophisticated computers capable of high levels of autonomous thought and independent decision-making. Example/s: City Mind, Ship Mind, sophisticated sophontoid robots, etc.

NOTES: the differences between a brain and a mind are very negligible. There is significant overlap between the definitions, both formally and informally. As a generality, brains are lower performance and minds are higher performance. Brains were first operated with personalities. Later models began to include lower quality personalities. All minds are designed from the onset to include high quality personalities.

History & Background (Dossier)

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Expected Artificial Intelligence Development Sequence

MACRO LEVEL:

• Automaton (Mechanistic Machine) → Brain (Calculating Machine) → Mind (Thinking Machine) → True Artificial Intelligence (Feeling Machine) → Jupiter Brain (Hyper-calculational Machine) → Omni-Heursitic Mind (Machine Life)

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