Are Golems Real? PREVIEW
Alexander Ohnemus
(Originally published: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384113155_PREVIEW_GCG ).
PREVIEW: GCG
Golems for the Common Good
Table of Contents:
I) Survival Heuristics, Classics, Tradition, and Philosophy
II) Risk Analysis and Science
III) Skin in the Game and Engineering
I) Survival Heuristics, Classics, Tradition, and Philosophy
Outline: Golem tradition, philosophy, science, risk analysis, skin in the game and engineering.
The Lindy Effect greatly notes the validity of survival heuristics because past populations had to behave certain ways to reproduce into the current ones. Non-perishables with “longer pasts behind them to have longer futures ahead”(Ord 2023). Of course different categories of non-perishables exist. Categories of perishables, although they themselves to not perish being categorical, they represent groups that do. Abstract ideas of surviving groups may best exemplify the Lindy Effect. Golems are a very specific category of perishables that could eventually exist and arguably already do so, uncertainty is at the forefront.
Jews have survived as a people for many generations. And the Bible has guided the survival of almost all humans living today, directly or indirectly. A“golem, in Jewish folklore” is “an image endowed with life. The term is used in the Bible (Psalms 139:16) and in Talmudic literature to refer to an embryonic or incomplete substance”(Britannica 2024). Religion is of course sacred to a population, to the point of being rules of thumb for the people to live from generation-to-generation. Golems are not strictly made of a particular non-living material. A golem must be made of inanimate material. Golems may be precursors to robots. Perhaps previous envisions of golems serve as warnings for phenotypic revolutions. Various representations of Golem exist throughout culture such as “Pygmalion” and “Pinocchio.”
II) Risk Analysis and Science
Self-correction often educates the best. ““ We may lack the genotypes of dead people but we can replicate their phenotypes using artificial intelligence. We can then adjust their phenotypes by adding more progressive and recessive traits(like fertility). Then, we can use AI to create a corresponding genotype for the adjusted phenotype. Lastly, we can give the being(phenotype and genotype) life by making it reproduce”(Ohnemus 2024). Replicated phenotypes of the deceased may be imperfect, however, using public records, AI perhaps could deduce the most likely one. Recessive traits MUST derive from the corresponding genes or they wouldn’t express. Two recessive alleles express a recessive trait. A dominant allele and recessive one express a dominant trait. Two dominant alleles express the dominant trait. A recessive phenotype is more likely to represent a recessive genotype. Thus, by replicating a deceased person’s phenotype, deduced from public records, then making the traits more recessive, the corresponding genes are easier to deduce. Progressive traits, such as anti-racism, are needed for civilization. Technology can self-replicate. Thus, a perfect representation of the general human phenotype, upon reproducing, may become an actual modern homo-sapien.
Most technological progress results from boiling down to the most fundamentals thus, defining terms may assist this essay. Phenotypes are “traits”(National Human Genome Research Institute 2024) resulting from either the environment and or genes.
III) Skin in the Game and Engineering
“The xenobots can autonomously self-replicate in a way that is completely different from any other living organisms, and their progeny are functional”(Fang , Ying, et al). If xenobots can autonomously self-replicate, beginning as none living entities, then stem-cellss sequenced to match a designed phenotype can be 3D printed into the phenotype. Then, by having the 3D printed reproduce, it may become an actual human.
1)AI replicate a dead individual’s phenotype with software.
2)User change replicate phenotype to be both more progressive and recessive.
3)3D print phenotype with stem cells.
4)Allow 3D printed phenotype to reproduce itself.
5)Life created and repeat.
Works Cited
Ord, Toby . “The Lindy Effect.” ResearchGate.net, Oxford University , Aug. 2023, www.researchgate.net/publication/373245971_The_Lindy_Effect. Accessed 17 Sept. 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09045. “The Lindy effect is a statistical tendency for things with longer pasts behind them to have longer futures ahead. It has been experimentally confirmed to apply to some categories, but not others, raising questions about when it is applicable and why. I shed some light on these questions by examining the mathematical properties required for the effect and generating mechanisms that can produce them. While the Lindy effect is often thought to require a declining hazard rate, I show that it arises very naturally even in cases with constant (or increasing) hazard rates -- so long as there is a probability distribution over the size of that rate. One implication is that even things which are becoming less robust over time can display the Lindy effect.”
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "golem". Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Jul. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/golem-Jewish-folklore. Accessed 16 September 2024.
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Pfeiffer, Lee. "Pinocchio". Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Jun. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pinocchio-film-1940. Accessed 17 September 2024.
Ohnemus, Alexander . “Automated Reproduction for the Deceased.” ResearchGate.net , Ohnemus University , 17 Sept. 2024, www.researchgate.net/publication/384069633_Automated_Reproduction_for_the_Deceased. Accessed 17 Sept. 2024. “ We may lack the genotypes of dead people but we can replicate their phenotypes using artificial intelligence. We can then adjust their phenotypes by adding more progressive and recessive traits(like fertility). Then, we can use AI to create a corresponding genotype for the adjusted phenotype. Lastly, we can give the being(phenotype and genotype) life by making it reproduce.”
“PHENOTYPE.” Genome.gov, National Human Genome Research Institute , 16 Sept. 2024, www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Phenotype. Accessed 16 Sept. 2024. “Phenotype refers to an individual’s observable traits, such as height, eye color and blood type. A person’s phenotype is determined by both their genomic makeup (genotype) and environmental factors. ‘Phenotype’ simply refers to an observable trait. ‘Pheno’ simply means ‘observe’ and comes from the same root as the word ‘phenomenon’. And so it’s an observable type of an organism, and it can refer to anything from a common trait, such as height or hair color, to presence or absence of a disease.”
Ohnemus , Alexander . “Hazard Management: Differential Equations of Phenotypic Revolutions.” ResearchGate.net, Ohnemus University , 14 Sept. 2024, www.researchgate.net/publication/384046277_Hazard_Management_Differential_Equations_of_Phenotypic_Revolutions?channel=doi&linkId=66e66b02a438c86fdcced970&showFulltext=true. Accessed 16 Sept. 2024.
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24577.88168. “Phenotypic revolutions suggest against scientific materialism. Without at least partial free will on some level, humans couldn’t fundamentally choose to reason. Humans probably aren’t the only animals that make decisions, thus reason. Thus, if reproducing causes inanimate objects to become life and phenotypically revolt then, likely everything on some level is conscious even if not alive. Thus making the case for pan-dualism. Pan Dualism is, in short, everything is unique thus, either has a soul, or something else that marks an identity, forbidding contradictions.”
Frey, Lewis J. “Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Genotype⁻Phenotype Identification.” Genes vol. 10,1 18. 28 Dec. 2018, doi:10.3390/genes10010018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356893/. “The integration of phenotypes and genotypes is at an unprecedented level and offers new opportunities to establish deep phenotypes. There are a number of challenges to overcome, specifically, accelerated growth of data, data silos, incompleteness, inaccuracies, and heterogeneity within and across data sources. This perspective report discusses artificial intelligence (AI) approaches that hold promise in addressing these challenges by automating computable phenotypes and integrating them with genotypes. Collaborations between biomedical and AI researchers will be highlighted in order to describe initial successes with an eye toward the future.” “Over 60 years ago, Turing postulated that we would experience a change in perspective on how learning machines are perceived. Breakthrough AI approaches have brought this to pass and have expanded our ability to recognize drivers of phenotypes resulting from single nucleotide variations, valid protein function mechanisms in biological systems, cancer disease states and deep phenotypes automatically constructed from the EHR. Through combining and expanding on these approaches in a collaborative effort, the biomedical community will accelerate discovery and improve our understanding of mechanisms in the genomic and phenomic expression of disease.” “There's usually not a one-to-one correlation between a genotype and a phenotype.”
Fang , Ying, et al. “AI-Designed, Living Robots Can Self-Replicate.” Embs.org, IEEE EMBS, 12 Feb. 2022, www.embs.org/pulse/articles/ai-designed-living-robots-can-self-replicate/. Accessed 16 Sept. 2024. “ The xenobots can autonomously self-replicate in a way that is completely different from any other living organisms, and their progeny are functional.”