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March 28, 2015
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Melanie Swan
melanie@BlockchainStudies.org
www.BlockchainStudies.org
Blockchain Thinking
The Brain as a DAC(Decentralized Autonomous Corporation)
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About Melanie Swan
Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
Singularity University Instructor, EDGE Contributor IEET Affiliate Scholar, Blockchain Academic: Swan, M. Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly Media, 2015.
Swan, M. We Should Consider The Future World As One Of Multi-Species Intelligence. Response to The Edge Question 2015: What do you think about machines that think? John Brockman, Ed., 2015.
Swan, M. Cognitive Applications of the Brain as a DAC. Cognitive Science 2015: The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, Pasadena CA, July 2015. submitted.
Swan, M. Philosophy of Big Data: Expanding the Human-Data Relation with Big Data Science Services. IEEE BigDataService 2015, Redwood City CA, Mar 31-Apr 2, 2015. accepted.
Swan, M. Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation). Texas Bitcoin Conference, Austin TX, March 27-29, 2015. accepted.
Swan, M. Machine ethics interfaces: An ethics of perception of nanorobot-aided cognition. Journal of Responsible Innovation. submitted.
Traditional Markets Background New Markets Vision
Source: http://melanieswan.com/publications.htm
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What is the blockchain?
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A decentralized public transaction ledger
A currency, finance, economic, smart property system
An enabler of the M2M/IOT machine economy
A registry, listing, and management system for all of the
world’s assets, smart property, and itemizable quanta
A society’s public records repository and legal, health,
and governance system
A new form of information technology, a decentralized
system of checks and balances, an infrastructure, an
organizing system that is universal and of planetary-scale
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf
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Future of Diverse Thinking Entities
Autonomous
Car
Smart Contract
DAOs/DACs
Enhanced Human
IOT/M2M
Smartnetworks
Whole Brain
Emulations
Hybrid
Classic Human
Source: http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2015/01/blockchain-thinking-transition-to.html
Neocortical
Column Arrays
Deep-Learning
Clusters
Machine Learning
Algorithms
Simulated
Minds
High-frequency
Trading Networks
Real-time Bidding
Arrays
Brain-computer
Interfaces
Digital Mindfile
UploadsArtificial Life
Synthetic BiologyDesigned
Life
Cellular
Automata
Supercomputers AI
Agents
Expert SystemsAutonomic
Computing
Natural Language
Processors
Brain Scans
AnimalsPersonal
Robotics
Smarthome
Networks
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Top 4 Killer Apps: Brain as a DAC
Artificial Intelligence
1. Friendly AI
2. Blockchain Deep-Learners
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Instantiating thinking as a blockchain process:
input-processing-output
Human Enhancement
3. Blockchain Advocates
4. Digital Mindfile Services
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf
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App #1: Friendly AI
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Artificial Intelligence
Digital intelligences running on
consensus-managed
smartnetworks
Good reputational standing
required to conduct operations
Resource access, fund-raising,
services, contracts
Consensus only validates and
records bonafide transactions
from ‘good’ agents
Sources: http://cointelegraph.com/news/113368/blockchain-ai-5-top-reasons-the-blockchain-will-deliver-friendly-ai,
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swan20141117
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App #2: Blockchain Deep-Learners
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Artificial Intelligence
Crucial moment for AI: large data
corpora and ‘simple’ machine
learning algorithms
Narrow AI: Google News, Translate,
Image Recognition
Broad AI: Genomes, Connectomes
Large databases of personal
connectomes reveal brain structure
Blockchain EMR, genome,
connectome file sharing
Sources: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/35179.pdf,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6209
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App #3: Blockchain Advocates
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Human Enhancement
Smart contracts: independent
third-party advocate in
uncertain future time frames
Sustainability plan
Wikipedia of the future:
blockchain-based oracle
lookup services
“You are running on the current
standard, Windows 36 on a Quantum
Itanium 3” - smart contract valet
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf
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App #4: Digital Mindfile Services
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Human Enhancement
Digital Mindfile Uploads
‘Digital you’ services: LifeNaut, CyBeRev
Brain scan, personal connectome
Instantiate your mindfile as a DAC
Personal Thinking Chains
Life-logging, QS biometric datastore
Chain-based Memory, Ideas, Identity
Mindsim chains
Like digital health sims (Entelos)
Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf
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Thinking: Input-Processing-Output
Critical blockchain functionality
Tracking, universal real-time on-demand
access, data quality validation, historical
ledger, network effect, dynamic optimization
Memory: modular and manipulable
Neural Turing Machines: memory as machine
learning network add-on
Neuroscience: accentuation and blocking
Storage
Distributed, on-chain pointers, swappable
File-Serving Github/IPFS serving, versioning, soft-hashing
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Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf
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Thinking: Input-Processing-Output
Self-Mining Ecologies
Smarthome IOT networks, DAC brains
Administrative reciprocal mining
Proof of Intelligence
Consensus mechanism for smartnetwork
operations not transaction recording
Demonstrate proof of ability to participate
Ideacoin, Mindcoin
Demurrage Redistribution
Potentiation and Ideas as currency
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Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf
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Thinking: Input-Processing-Output
Actions, ideas, feedback loops, utility
functions, subjectivation possibilities
Programmable Utility Functions
Complexity math (Eigen values, nearest
neighbors, coefficients) to instantiate the
qualitative and the quantitative
Literacy Chains, Maslow Contracts,
Actualization Chains
Extend our capacity to become ‘more’ of
who we are and can be more quickly
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Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf
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Conclusions
Blockchains are a new form of
information technology that might have
many important future applications
Thinking as a blockchain process
AI: Friendly AI, Blockchain Deep-Learners
Human Enhancement: Blockchain
Advocates, Digital Mindfile Services
Blockchain thinking applications for the
immediate progress of intelligence and
longer-term transition to digital societies
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Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf