I really like Ian Banks’s depiction of Culture Minds (ships and habitats), and their ability to carve off temporarily-independent pieces of themselves for various purposes. This, along with ability to simulate fairly complex systems like smaller intelligences, may end up vaguely similar to our own blend of habits and heuristics somewhat distinct from reasoned action.
But only vaguely. Not least because the two-system description doesn’t fit humans all that well, compared to a 20-system model with different kinds of reactions, habits, willpower, and choices.
I really like Ian Banks’s depiction of Culture Minds (ships and habitats), and their ability to carve off temporarily-independent pieces of themselves for various purposes. This, along with ability to simulate fairly complex systems like smaller intelligences, may end up vaguely similar to our own blend of habits and heuristics somewhat distinct from reasoned action.
But only vaguely. Not least because the two-system description doesn’t fit humans all that well, compared to a 20-system model with different kinds of reactions, habits, willpower, and choices.