UDC

141.2

Authors

Grigoriy S. Smirnov
Ivanovo State University; ul. Ermaka 39, Ivanovo, 153025, Russian Federation;
e-mail: gssmirnov@mail.ru
Aleksandr S. Nikiforov
Ivanovo State University; ul. Ermaka 39, Ivanovo, 153025, Russian Federation;
e-mail: stay88@yandex.ru

Abstract

This article analyses the development of digital technologies, formation of an integrated semiotic and information space, and fusion of the biological and technical media, indicating a coevolutionary trend in the theory and practice of global mind construction. The authors focused on the works by Raymond Kurzweil, one of the pioneers in the sphere of creating artificial intelligence. His practiceoriented theory of integration of organic and electronic intelligence into a single mind through the cloud is based on a mathematical correspondence between the organization of language and that of the brain, which substantiates the viability of the electronic model of the brain. Further, the paper studies the basic principles of organization of language, thinking and the brain, such as hierarchy and recursion. A critical evaluation is made of the possibility of creating a thinking machine connected to the global information space, in the future capable of transforming into a single thinking organism. It is pointed out that at the present stage mind modelling in its fundamentals and principles is primarily focused on language research. Moreover, the authors drew parallels between the modern Western tradition and Russian philosophical thought, both of which consider language to be one of the organizing and fundamental derivatives of mind. Further, the paper provides a definition of the concept of planetary cephalization and shows that its meaning is determined by the processes of coevolution of natural and artificial intelligence in the context of implementing the complementarity principle (wave–particle duality) and the correspondence principle (each subsequent theory, thus, also the form of being, includes the preceding one as a special case). The authors put forward a fundamental idea that the formation of artificial mind (artificial intelligence) is a continuation of the geological process of cephalization, which is argued in the works by V.I. Vernadsky in respect to the scientific thought as a planetary phenomenon. In addition, the paper substantiates that the ideas of forming a single semiotic universe are complementary to the aim of creating a global mind in its invariants.

Keywords

natural mind, electronic (artificial) mind, artificial intelligence, cephalization of the noosphere, planetary cephalization

References

1. Dubrovskiy D.I. Priroda cheloveka, massovoe soznanie i global’noe budushchee [Human Nature, Mass Consciousness and Global Future]. Dubrovskiy D.I., Klimova S.M. (eds.). Global’noe budushchee 2045: Antropologicheskiy krizis. Konvergentnye tekhnologii. Transgumanisticheskie proekty [Global Future 2045: Anthropological Crisis. Convergent Technologies. Transhumanist Projects]. Moscow, 2014, pp. 188–199. 
2. Vernadskiy V.I. Nauchnaya mysl’ kak planetnoe yavlenie [Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon]. Moscow, 1991. 271 p. 
3. Smirnov G.S. Tsefalizatsiya noosfery: evolyutsiya razumnogo veshchestva na rubezhe tysyacheletiy [Cephalization of the Noosphere: The Evolution of Reasonable Substance at the Turn of the Millennium]. Vestnik Ivanovskogo gosudarstvennogo. universiteta. Ser.: Gumanitarnye nauki, 2012, no. 2, pp. 17–30. 
4. Moiseev N.N. Sud’ba tsivilizatsii. Put’ razuma [The Fate of the Civilization. The Way of the Mind]. Moscow, 2000. 224 p. 
5. Kaku M. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. Doubleday, 2014 (Russ. ed.: Kaku M. Budushchee razuma. Moscow, 2015. 502 p.). 
6. Yashin A.A. Fenomenologiya noosfery: Predtecha noosfery. Ch. 2. Myshlenie i virtual’naya real’nost’ [Phenomenology of the Noosphere: The Forerunner of the Noosphere. Pt. 2. Thinking and Virtual Reality]. Moscow, 2015. 280 p. 
7. Kalinin P.E. Ontologiya tselostnogo soznaniya: prostranstvenno-vremennaya organizovannost’ global’noy soznanievoy i yazykovoy real’nosti [Ontology of Integral Consciousness: The Spatiotemporal Organization of Global Consciousness and Linguistic Reality]. Ivanovo, 2015. 264 p. 
8. Belyatskaya A.A., Borodin E.A., Dobrodum O.V., Zhul’kov M.V., Indrikov A.A., Kalinin P.E., Kuz’menkov V.A., Kulikova O.B., Lazarova E., Melikyan M.A., Obrezkov A.A., Paley E.V., Petryakov L.D., Portnov A.N., Prokhorov M.M., Smirnov G.S., Smirnov D.G., Smirnova I.N., Timoshchuk A.S. Yazyki global’nogo soznaniya [Languages of Global Consciousness]. Ivanovo, 2016. 516 p. 
9. Portnov A.N. Vzaimosvyaz’ yazyka i soznaniya v filosofii XIX–XX vekov: metodologicheskiy analiz osnovnykh napravleniy issledovaniya [Interrelation Between Language and Consciousness in the Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Methodological Analysis of the Key Lines of Research]. Ivanovo, 1998. 57 p. 
10. Ivanov Vyach. Vs. Pótom i opytom [By Perspiration and Experience]. Moscow, 2009. 352 p. 11. Bakhtin M.M. Problemy poetiki Dostoevskogo [Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics]. Moscow, 1972. 470 p.