Ninth General Assembly of the World Future Society,
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewing progress in the last decade towards the symbionic mind − − a sophisticated, direct, neural interface between the brain and the environment − − we speculate that in the future the symbionic mind will used to channel wireless, virtual reality information directly to the cortex, bypassing conventional sensory channels. The result will be participation in virtual reality experiences in cyberspace creating seamless, alternate realities indistinguishable from reality. Such eventualities will inevitably lead to innovative altered states, fresh conscious perceptions, new experiences of the sublime, and the possible merging of human realities into a single consciousness, necessitating a redefinition of individuality. More exciting is the possibility of real−time feedback from the cortex through the symbionic mind to constantly tailor virtual reality experiences. Might the functions of our existing nervous system eventually be superseded by the symbionic mind, changing what it means to be human and creating a virtual "guardian angel " to guide us though the new millennium? SECOND DECADE SYMBIONICS AND BEYOND At the First Global Conference on the Future held in Toronto in July, 1980 the idea of Symbionic Minds was first presented. In the original paper (Cartwright, 1980a) and in subsequent papers (Cartwright, 1980b; 1983a; 1988, 1989), intelligence amplifiers were visualized; connected to human brains, capable of independent, intelligent action and existing symbiotically with us.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.071 | 0.059 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".