Intelligence

The purpose of this article is to define intelligence from the perspective of sapient races, with the potential to evolve, and look at how artificial intelligence can be used as a supplement for sapience. The traditional definition of intelligence is here.

Intelligence is one facet of a sapient mind and can be loosely broken down into these dimensions (and sub-dimensions within):

If an identity is no longer individual, it can become shared and lead to a hive mind with a collective intelligence.

Machines can be programmed to have algorithmically-defined or self-learning artificial intelligence, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by biological sapient species, which involves consciousness and emotions. These machines mimic cognitive functions that species associate with the mind, such as learning and problem solving.

A superintelligence is an artificial or biological entity that possesses far superior intelligence associated with an intelligence explosion or technological singularity.

The move towards simulating the power of a massively parallel human neural network lies in quantum computing. As computation reaches its limits, the ultimate brain associated with a collective mind or one vastly superior mind is the Matrioshka brain which is a megastructure in space based on the Dyson sphere, of immense computational capacity. It ranges in size from an asteroid to an entire universe, where it can hold the energy of trillions of stars.

One or many technological singularities can occur, caused by a superintelligence or biological races uploading their minds. It can also be caused by molecular nanotechnology with nanobots replicating and taking over all lifeforms and structures of a planet and eventually everything.