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The Perfect Natural
Intelligence System
An Artificial Intelligence System based
on the Anima Mundi – a model of the
brain. (See presentation Anima Mundi.)
Hello Professor Goodyer.
You said you needed a model of
the brain. Try this.
Introduction.
It was sometime early in the 1990’s. I needed to subject the model of the
brain that I had found hidden in the symbolism of the Anima Mundi to
intelligent criticism but no brain specialist would stoop to discussing a brain
model founded on astro-archetypes. I had a friend working on an AI PhD and
it occurred to me that if I translated the model into an AI system it would not
be so offensive, so this is what I did.
I took it to my friend. He was distrustful of my model’s astrological source but
he listened to my exposition with care and growing excitement. ‘This’, he
announced, on completion of my explanation, ‘is not a discovery’ (thus
disagreeing with what I had told him I thought it was) ‘this is the description of
a perfect, natural, intelligence system’.
‘A perfect natural intelligence system’ was an excellent description of what I
thought I had discovered.
I know very little about computers so please forgive inevitable descriptive
inadequacies. This model is built on my knowledge of esoteric symbols.
These are the original three models I used as foundation for the AI system.
The first model was designed to illustrate the way Body, Mind, Imagination
and Heart work together successfully as a team. I worked with this model
before I came across the second model. Had I not understood model 1, I
would have been unable to recognise model 2. Model 2 is born of the Anima
Mundi but with the planets connecting according to the Ptolemaic Order and
the order of discovery of the new planets. 3 is a simplified model of the brain.
The system is organised into main sections that retain their functions
throughout. Hardware, and agencies dedicated to operating hardware, are
on the left. Agencies dedicated to software are on the right.
The upper/lower division distinguish between automatic agencies and
systems that can be conditioned by the machine itself.
Hardware
Software
First we need an OPERATING SYSTEM. The primal astrological
symbols on this model are Sun and Moon, rulers of the signs Leo and
Cancer. On the Anima Mundi this marks the Sun-Moon
Complementary Connection Life.
Hardware
Software
OPERATING
SYSTEM
No power supply, no system. What better planet to symbolise a
power supply than the Sun. Without this initial requisite there is no
point in continuing. The power supply will run the machine.
POWER SUPPLY.
Symbol, the Sun.
Sign, Leo.
Fixed Fire.
A power supply on hand, we need
a container inclusive of circuitry
and processors.
Symbol, the Moon.
Sign, Cancer. Cardinal Water.
In his book Horoscope Symbols Robert
Hand lists ‘container’ as an attribute
carried by the symbol Moon.
Space is full of light yet it is bright black. The Moon symbolises matter’s
ability to reflect light. Matter not only reflects light it can also store information.
So this Operating System supplies the basics necessary for the running of
this machine. We can imagine that this container incorporates a lense which will
enable the light from the external environment to be received. As the Moon is
very likely responsible in the primitive brain for sensitivity to pressure (life began
in the sea) we can also imagine this hardware includes a sound sensitive device,
a microphone of some sort and maybe even a keyboard.
In esoteric language the Sun is symbolised by the element fire - heat
and light – physics. The Moon is symbolised by the element water, an
element pertaining to chemistry. Water stores heat.
In his book The Intelligent Universe, David Foster suggests the
possibility of developing a chemically based memory. He points out that
each element has a unique atomic number which could be used to store
information. When I originally described this system researchers were
working on this idea at the Naval Research Laboratories, Washington
DC. I have not checked the results of their research.
Supplied with essential hardware, basic memory, a power supply
and loaded operating system, in human terms we are alive, in artificial
intelligence terms we are operational.
Now we add some sophistication by applying another unit, the
Information Processing Unit, and we need to connect it to the
Operating System hence the inter-process connection.
INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT
Inter-process
connection
Software Programmes.
Right Hemisphere.
The Creative.
I asked a computer expert the question, ‘If I had hardware, a power supply
and an operating system, what would I need next?’ His answer: ‘Input.
So we need input. We need a communication programme - one that
translates and transmutes information from one form to another - digits to
meaning and sounds to meaning. Archetypal Gemini/Mercury, the messenger
of the gods, will satisfy this need.
COMMUNICATION AGENCY
Symbol Mercury/Asteroids.
Sign Gemini.
Yang pole of the Complementary
Connection Work. Mutable Air.
SORTING AGENCY
Symbol Venus.
Sign Libra.
Yang/Complementary Connection
Form. Cardinal Air.
The Mercury programme has provided us
with a means of translating data from the
environment into a mode that can be
recognised by the machine. Now we need
to sort the data into related families so
that our machine can recall meanings at speed. Here we have Venus, ruler of
relationships. This programme must be able to organise data in different ways. A cat,
for instance, can be an ‘animal’, a ‘pet’, a ‘carnivore’, a ‘responsibility’ etc. This sifting
and comparing of data is important if our machine is to match human intelligence.
Libra is traditionally concerned with comparison, rhythm, harmony and balance. This
position works with Form, not physical form, but form as a theoretical construct, form
as ideas.
The mirror of Venus is another famous symbol. The mirror allows Venus to relate
to the other as a reflection of self.
CREATIVITY AGENCY
Symbol Mars. Sign Aries.
Yang pole of the Complementary
Connection Time. Cardinal Fire.
In order to endure in a complex,
ever-changing environment the
machine needs the ability to respond to
provocation. It needs the power to react
to stimulation to act creatively.
This is our creativity programme. Here the machine is motivated to take up
the data and play with it. Mars symbolises a wild, assertive force, quite different
from the taming organising energy we built into in the previous agency. The
purpose of this pioneering Aries programme is to create something new; alter
things around just as you would turn a jigsaw puzzle piece to see if you can find
an angle at which it would fit a particular gap - and right next to this agency we
have the power to light up the monitor just where we need it for it is important at
this point for the machine to monitor what is going in both the external and
internal environment.
OPERATING SYSTEM
Symbol The Sun. Sign Leo.
Fixed Fire.
Operating in conjunction with the
Moon, Sign Cancer. Cardinal Water.
Back at where we started we arrive at the operating system and our video
agency, a programme which is able to work with external or internally projected
images. This is agency not only provides energy, this energy can be expressed
as light.
In human terms this is the seat of the Imagination where images are stored
in the Moon memory so that they can be recognised without further processing,
active (in partnership with the Moon) even in sleep.
SELF-EDUCATION AGENCY
Symbol Jupiter. Sign Sagittarius.
Yang pole of the Complementary
Connection Source. Mutable Fire.
This is the self-education programme - the
recognition of the order and structure of
phenomena as the uniform results of
corresponding conditions. Jupiter
perceives and extrapolates patterns
derived from experience.
As with the Mars programme this programme is not yet part of the PC though it
may be present in a simple form in powerful robotic commercial computers. This
programme is a necessity for any intelligence which is to be self-developing. Nobel
laureate Herbert A. Simon, of the University of Pittsburgh, designed a selfeducation programme called Bacon. Named after the great Francis Bacon his
programme seeks orderly patterns in irregular data.
Without this Jupiter function our machine has no chance of developing beyond
its original parameters.
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But Jupiter, though recognising pattern and structure, does not have the
power to record it. What we need is a way of storing and of utilising the
conclusions resulting from the cogitations of this information processing unit
and for this we must move to another unit.
DATABASE
Symbols, Saturn and Uranus. Signs, Capricorn and Aquarius.
Complementary Connection Government and Wealth.
LONG TERM (DECLARATIVE) MEMORY
Symbol Saturn. Sign Capricorn. Cardinal Earth.
At this point we need to involve hardware because data must be imprinted on
some thing: a disk is the latest example, tapes, books and money are others.
Information storage always depends on matter (remember the Moon). This
sophisticated database invests our machine with the potentiality for achieving an
individual identity through the laying down of personal memories. The original
design of the system necessarily restricts the potential of this machine (subject to
the machine's ability to redesign itself) but, even with restrictions, this memory
offers an identity over and above the original bestowed by us in the original
operating system.
It cannot override its primal operating system - any more than a human being
can override the human heart – but the addition of this memory will generate an
individual identity born of this machines ‘own’ personal experiences. This
memory will also mean that this machine will no longer have to work out
everything anew each time similar circumstances are presented: predetermined
responses will cut out enormous quantities of energy wastefully expended on
unnecessary computing, time and energy are made available for concentrating
on building up the results of ever more experiences, and by proxy, creating an
ever more individualised identity structure. In conjunction with the yang/air
complementary connection (which is the next essential in this system) this
position has authority. One problem; the environment does not always remain
the same. If this machine has conquered the route to a particular destination,
knowing the way, as it were, ‘with its eyes shut’, it can follow the route with no
need for further processing. But what if there is some sort of change in
conditions, an obstruction on the route that was not there before, a fallen tree,
another machine? If the memories in this ‘hierarchy of data’ (Saturn rules
hierarchies), this database, cannot be modified - maybe even entirely
remodelled - then this means trouble. We must make sure this memory is
erasable. We must have a means of updating and restructuring these memories.
We need a powerful disruptive energy, strong enough to shift the pattern laid
down by previous mind sets. We need a rebel force.
POWERFUL RESTRUCTURING AGENCY
Symbol, Uranus. Sign, Aquarius. Fixed Air.
And this is it. Uranus, as all astrologers know, is a powerful disruptive energy
that can break down rigid mind sets which interfere with our intelligence's
evolutionary potential. Necessary but dangerous if it gets out of hand, I have
proposed that a human being might well experience the operation of this agency
as a psychotic breakdown (Aquarius is connected with epilepsy and mental
illness and Saturn with depression). Uranus and Saturn working in tandem
present us with a database which not only stores patterns of thought (patterns
humans display as opinions or attitudes; mind sets which lie behind their
decisions and motivations) it also has the power to change them.
If we stop at this point we will have created a pretty intelligent machine,
but since it cannot move of its own volition it is necessarily dependent on
data supplied to it by others. This is a terrible handicap. If it is to be truly
intelligent it needs to be able to search for and find information for itself. It
needs a robot unit.
This Uranian ‘awakening’ restructuring energy (this is the primal position
on the yang arena of this system) is positioned in such a way that it can be
used to motivate using changing electrical signals (Uranus, discovered in
1971, is identified with electricity) our next important unit, a unit that deals
with action performed in, or on, the material, external, environment.
Here it is, the ROBOT SYSTEMS UNIT
Left Hemisphere. The Receptive.
You will see as we built up the agencies according to the model that this AI
system utilises inter-process mechanisms between the information processing
unit and the robot system unit. These are the all-important complementary
connections displayed on the Anima Mundi, identified by the blue arrows, two
of which can be seen on this incomplete system, those in the operating system
and data base.
NOTE.
Why the right brain is labelled ‘spatial’ by brain specialists, which in symbolic
language means Receptive, when on the Anima Mundi it is Creative and therefore
‘temporal’, is explained by the interrelationship between these two primary
archetypes. The term ‘spatial’ has been applied to the right brain because of its
ability to manipulate three dimensional images. If you imagine yourself in a space
vehicle returning from the Moon and now, with the panache only the imagination
can achieve, stepping out into space and watching as your vehicle hurtles on
towards the slowly revolving blue Earth ahead - you will understand what I mean.
You are manipulating spatial images but nowhere in the performance of this activity
is there any manipulation of matter. It is purely Creative. You can see that labelling
the right brain Receptive simply because it is known to deal with images apparently
existing in space, would be simplistic. Conversely, to label the left brain Creative
merely because in expressing through matter it is compelled to conform to time
would also be unsubtle. Matter is obliged to effect changes sequentially. Objects
can be in only one place at any one time. Pick up an object, any object, and you will
see that ‘by the time’ the manoeuvre is accomplished time has passed.
That this system interrelates these two primal archetypes so that they cannot be
divided is echoed by the computer where, once the power is on, software and
hardware are indivisible. The light lighting up a monitor is the creative energy of
motion (yang) manipulating images that give the impression of space. The
receptive structural layout of the silicon chip (yin) allows the computer to compute,
and the process of computing is thinking, the creative.
RECEPTIVITY TO LEARNING
AGENCY operating as
complementary process to the Selfeducation agency in the Information
Processing Unit. Symbol Neptune.
Sign Pisces. Yin pole of the
Complementary Connection
Source. Mutable Water.
With the addition of a Robot Systems Unit we now have a potentially
physically independent machine, but only potentially independent. Unless we
want it to waste a great deal of time it must be programmed with some skills. I
have seen a film on TV in which a machine (part of the production line of a car
factory) is taught to make certain movements. The operator holds the appendage
that is to perform the manoeuvre and moves it in the way required. This is a
receptivity programme, the machine is open to this manipulation and it illustrates
vividly why Neptunian people are liable to find themselves victims of more
unscrupulous natures.
The inter-process mechanism operating here allows for the cooperation of
an agency that offers pattern recognition, Jupiter. (This illuminates the
necessity of the inter-process communication mechanism.)
Now we need to programme these patterns into a memory. Not a memory
that can be brought to mind (the database) but a foundation autonomic
memory - one that will automatically operate a series of commands (macros).
You can see that this programme is not only connected to the Data Base, it
also has direct access to the Operating System.
Neptune is blamed astrologically for troublesome addictions. You can see
why?
Neptune is also identified by astrologers with fog and mist, free floating
molecules, and this planetary archetype also rules film – we can surmise
from this that in conjunction with the operating system the multitudinous pixels
upon which changing patterns can be projected are supplied by this program.
Between Uranus (electricity) and Neptune (chemistry) is an inter-process
mechanism. This is an electro-chemical device.
OPERATING SYSTEM
Here our original Operating System is ready to take on board this
new information (macro) so that it can be acted on automatically freeing
this burgeoning entity to concentrate on further learning. This machine
cannot reprogram its Operating System but through the previous
agency it can extend it.
MANIPULATIVE POWER operating in
conjunction with the Creativity Agency in the
Information Processing Unit.
Symbol Pluto. Sign Scorpio. Yin pole of the
Complementary Connection Time.
Fixed Water.
Next, to make use of the data we have
built into the Operating System and the
skills it has already learnt, this machine
needs physical power, power to act on
and manipulate the material world.
Without this power the machine is no better off than an ordinary PC.
This position deals with motive power in our Robot Unit as Mars supplied
motivation in our information processing unit. Always in this system each side of
the complementary connections deals with the same phenomenon though from
the complementary (receptive-creative, mass-energy, space-time) approach.
Pluto rules fossil fuels, oil and coal, underground products created by the
transformational energy of degradation and reconstitution. Scorpio rules the
production line, a logical line of actions which produces a finished product.
We now have a robot receptive to learning specific movements (Neptune),
memorising them (Moon), performing them (Pluto), but with no way of knowing for
itself whether it is performing these actions on something, or on nothing.
SENSORY AGENCY
Operating in conjunction with the
Sorting Agency in the Information
Processing Unit. Symbol Earth.
Sign Taurus. Yin pole of the
Complementary Connection Form.
Fixed Earth.
This agency effects the means by which
the machine can relate to its material self
and its external environment.
Here we build into our hardware, sensors that enable the robot to relate to the
physical Form of its external environment and the physical Form of itself. By
providing data through sensors, preferably at as many points as possible, our
machine becomes intelligently and independently aware. Remember the
complement of Taurus is Libra, relationship. Taureans are concerned with safety –
you can see why.
EVALUATION AGENCY
Operating in conjunction with the
Communication Programme in the
Information Processing Unit.
Symbol Chiron/Asteroids.
Sign Virgo. Yin pole of the
Complementary Connection Work.
Mutable Air.
Last of all this machine needs to be able to
gauge its success through evaluating the
result of its actions. Not only is this
programme situated in proximity to the
previous agency, the agency concerned with Form, it is near the Database (where
the results of past actions are located) and it has a direct inter-process connection to
the original video agency in the Operating System. Working as complementary
partner to the communication programme (which is also in direct contact with the
operating system). It is concerned with a myriad details of meaning, skilled at
applying memorised images to words. Virgo is a sign that seeks perfection and it is
responsible for refinement, including dexterity in movement. Given the skill to
analyse and criticise the results of its work we have built in a potential for
improvement. In this position, as with all other positions, this machine provides the
wherewithal through which the complementary archetype, clever Mercury, our
communication agency, can express itself with skill.
So here, again, are the
original three models from
which I derived this system.
And here is the completed
AI system based on the
above with the inter-process
mechanisms clearly
marked.
Each astro-archetype sports
a myriad corresponding
meanings: in the interest of
simplicity I have only utilised
a limited number here.
If I were a computer engineer no doubt I would have made a
better job of this interpretation but, I think, in spite of my
inadequacy, I have managed to illustrate the inherent logic in
this model. It is this consistent logic that convinces me this
model has integrity and that it is conveying profound
information important to the developing understanding of
humanity.
Chrissy Philp
September 2012