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The Perfect Natural
Intelligence System
A theoretical Artificial Intelligence
System based on the Anima
Mundi model of the brain.
(Hello Professor Goodyer.
You said you could do with a
model of the brain. Try this.)
It was sometime in the 1990’s. I needed to subject the model of the brain
that I had found described within the symbolism of the Anima Mundi to
intelligent criticism, but no brain specialist would stoop to discussing a
brain model founded on astro-archetypes. I had a friend working on an AI
PhD and it occurred to me that if I copied the model out as an AI system it
would not be so offensive so this is what I did.
I took it to my friend. He was distrustful of its astrological source but he
listened to my exposition with care and growing excitement. ‘This’, he
announced, on completion of my explanation, ‘is not a discovery’ (thus
disagreeing with what I had told him I thought it was), ‘this is the
description of a perfect, natural, intelligence system’.
This was what I thought I had discovered – a ‘perfect natural intelligence
system’ being a good description of the brain.
I know very little about computers so forgive me for inevitable descriptive
inadequacies. This model is built on my knowledge of esoteric symbols.
These are the original three models I used as foundation for the AI system.
The first model was intended to show how Body, Mind, Imagination and Heart
work together successfully as a team. I worked with this model before I came
across the second model. The second is born of the Anima Mundi but with the
planets connecting according to the Ptolemaic Order of the old planets and
the order of discovery of the new planets. The third is a simplified model of
the brain.
Hardware Software
The system is organised into main sections that retain their functions
throughout. Hardware, and agencies dedicated to operating hardware, are
on the left. Agencies dedicated to software are on the right.
The upper lower division distinguish between automatic operating systems
and systems that can be conditioned (up to a point) by the machine .
Hardware Software
The first thing we need is an OPERATING SYSTEM. On the brain
this would compare with the Cerebellum and related Core Brain;
the primal brain. The primal astrological symbols on this model are
Sun and Moon, rulers of the signs Leo and Cancer. On the Anima
Mundi this is the Sun-Moon Complementary Connection Life.
OPERATING SYSTEM
POWER SUPPLY.
Parasympathetic Nervous System.
Symbol, the Sun.
Sign, Leo.
Fixed Fire.
No power supply, no system. What better planet to symbolise a
power supply than the Sun. Without this initial requisite there is no point
in continuing. The power supply will run the machine. This position also
suggests the ability to apprehend light.
In his book Horoscope Symbols Robert
Hand gives ‘container’ as one of the
attributes applied to the Moon. Inbuilt into this container is the initial memory and
Operating System. The Operating System includes all the basic data necessary for
the running of this machine. Complementary property to the Sun, we can imagine
that this container incorporates some sort of camera which will enable the light from
the external environment to be received. Space is full of light yet it is bright black.
Position the Moon in the sky and the light is immediately visible. The Moon reflects
light. As the Moon is very likely responsible in the primitive brain for sensitivity to
pressure (life began in the sea), we can also imagine this hardware includes a
sound sensitive device, a microphone of some sort and maybe even a keyboard.
Sympathetic Nervous System.
Symbol, the Moon.
Sign, Cancer. Cardinal Water.
A power supply on hand, we need
a container. One that is inclusive
of circuitry and processors.
The element fire is symbolised by the Sun. Fire pertains to heat and
light – physics - the Moon archetype is of the element water, an element
pertaining to chemistry.
In his book The Intelligent Universe, David Foster suggests the
possibility of developing a chemically based memory. He points out that
each element has a unique atomic number which could be used to store
information. Researchers have been working on this idea at the Naval
Research Laboratories, Washington DC.
Supplied with essential hardware, basic memory, a power supply
and loaded operating system, in human terms we are alive, in artificial
intelligence terms we are operational.
INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT Software Programmes.
Right Hemisphere.
The Creative.
Inter-process
connection
COMMUNICATION AGENCY
Right Brain Motor Cortex and
Temporal lobe.
Symbol Mercury/Asteroids.
Sign Gemini.
Yang pole of the Complementary
Connection Work. Mutable Air.
I asked a computer expert the question ‘If I had hardware, a power supply and
an operating system, what would I need next?’ His answer, ‘Input.
So we need input. We need a communication programme - one that translates
and transmutes information from one form to another - digits to meaning and
sounds to meaning. Archetypal Gemini/Mercury, the messenger of the gods,
will satisfy this need.
SORTING AGENCY
Right Brain Somatosensory Cortex.
Symbol Venus.
Sign Libra.
Yang pole of the Complementary
Connection Form. Cardinal Air.
machine can recall meanings at speed. So here we have Venus, ruler of
relationships. This programme must be able to organise data in different ways. A cat,
for instance, can be an ‘animal’, a ‘pet’, a ‘carnivore’, a ‘responsibility’ etc. This sifting
and comparing of data is important if our machine is to match human intelligence.
Libra is traditionally concerned with comparison, rhythm, and balance, and it is
possible that this programme uses these cognitive abilities to recognise type. This is
the position (complement to Taurus) that works with theoretical Form.
The Libran scales are clearly implicated - the mirror of Venus is another famous
symbol. The mirror allows Venus to relate to the other as a reflection of self.
The Mercury programme has provided us
with a means of translating data from the
environment into a mode that can be
recognised by the machine. Now we need
to sort the data into related families so that our
CREATIVITY AGENCY
Right Parietal Lobe.
Symbol Mars. Sign Aries.
Yang pole of the Complementary
Connection Time. Cardinal Fire.
This is our creativity programme. Here the machine is motivated to take up
the data and play with it. Mars symbolises a wild, assertive force, quite different
from the taming organising energy we built into in the previous agency. The
purpose of this pioneering Aries programme is to create something new; alter
things around just as you would turn a jigsaw puzzle piece to see if you can find
an angle at which it would fit a particular gap - and right next to this agency we
have the power to light up the monitor just where we need it for it is important at
this point to monitor what is going on.
In order to endure in a complex,
ever-changing environment the
machine needs the ability to respond to
provocation. It needs the power to react
to stimulation to act creatively.
OPERATING SYSTEM Cerebellum, Parasympathetic
Nervous System, Core Brain and
related Visual Cortex.
Symbol The Sun. Sign Leo.
Fixed Fire.
Operating in conjunction with the
Moon, Sign Cancer. Cardinal Water.
Back at where we started we arrive at the seat of power and our video
agency, a programme which is able to work with external or internally projected
images. This is agency deals, not only with energy, but also light. In human
terms this is the seat of the Imagination where images are stored in the Moon
memory so that they can be recognised without further processing, active (in
partnership with the Moon) even in sleep.
SELF-EDUCATION AGENCY
Right Occipital Lobe. Symbol
Jupiter. Sign Sagittarius. Yang pole
of the Complementary Connection
Source. Mutable Fire.
As with the Mars programme this programme is not yet part of the PC though it
may be present in a simple form in powerful robotic commercial computers. This
programme is a necessity for any intelligence which is to be self-developing. Nobel
laureate Herbert A. Simon, of the University of Pittsburgh, designed a self-
education programme called Bacon. Named after the great Francis Bacon this
programme seeks orderly patterns in irregular data.
Without this Jupiter function our machine has no chance of developing beyond
its original parameters.
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This is the self-education programme - the
recognition of the order and structure of
phenomena as the uniform results of
corresponding conditions. Like the Jupiter
function in the human brain it perceives
and extrapolates the patterns derived from experience.
DATABASE Frontal Lobes and Limbic System.
Symbols, Saturn and Uranus. Signs, Capricorn and Aquarius.
Complementary Connection Government and Wealth.
But Jupiter, though recognising pattern and structure, does not have the
power to record it. What we need is a way of storing and of utilising the
conclusions resulting from the cogitations of this information processing unit
and for this we must move to another unit.
LONG TERM (DECLARATIVE) MEMORY
Symbol Saturn. Sign Capricorn. Cardinal Earth.
We have now moved from software agencies back to hardware. At this point we
need to involve hardware because data must be imprinted on some thing: a disk is
the latest example, tapes, books and money are others. Information storage always
depends on matter. This database invests our machine with the potentiality for
achieving an individual identity through the laying down of personal memories. The
original design of the system necessarily restricts the potential of this machine
(subject to the machine's ability to redesign itself) but, even with restrictions, this
Saturn memory offers an identity over and above the original bestowed by us in the
original operating system.
Though it cannot override its primal operating system - any more than a human
being can override the morality written in the human heart - the addition of this
memory will generate an individual identity born of our machine’s own cognitive
processing, evolved out of its own personal experiences. This memory will also
mean that this machine will no longer have to work out everything anew each time
similar circumstances are presented. Predetermined responses will cut out
enormous quantities of energy wastefully expended on unnecessary computing.
Because of this memory time and energy are made available for concentrating on
building up the results of ever more experiences, and by proxy, creating an ever
more individualised identity structure. In conjunction with the yang/air complementary
connection (which is the next essential in this system) this position has authority.
One problem; the environment does not always remain the same. If this machine has
conquered the route to a particular destination, knowing the way, as it were, ‘with its
eyes shut’, it can follow the route with no need for further processing. But what if
there is some sort of change in conditions, an obstruction on the route that was not
there before, a fallen tree, another machine? If the memories in this ‘hierarchy of
data’ (Saturn rules hierarchies), this database, cannot be modified - maybe even
entirely remodelled - then this means trouble. We must make sure this memory is
erasable. We must have a means of updating and restructuring these memories. We
need a powerful disruptive energy, strong enough to shift the pattern laid down by
previous mind sets. We need a rebel force.
POWERFUL RESTRUCTURING AGENCY
Symbol, Uranus. Sign, Aquarius. Fixed Air.
And this is it. Uranus, as all astrologers know, is a powerful disruptive energy
that can break down rigid mind sets which interfere with our intelligence's
evolutionary potential. Necessary but dangerous if it gets out of hand, I have
proposed that a human being might well experience the operation of this agency as
a psychotic breakdown (Aquarius is connected with epilepsy and mental illness).
Uranus and Saturn working in tandem present us with a database which not only
stores patterns of thought (patterns humans display as opinions or attitudes; mind
sets which lie behind their decisions and motivations,) but also has the power to
change them.
If we stop at this point we will have created a pretty intelligent machine,
but since it cannot move of its own volition it is necessarily dependent on
data supplied to it by others. This is a terrible handicap. If it is to be truly
intelligent it needs to be able to search for and find information for itself. It
needs a robot unit.
This Uranian ‘awakening’ restructuring energy (this is the primal position
on the yang arena of this system) is positioned in such a way that it can be
used to motivate using changing electrical signals (Uranus, discovered in
1971, is identified with electricity) our next important unit, a unit that deals
with action performed in, or on, the material, external, environment.
And here it is, the ROBOT SYSTEMS UNIT
Left Hemisphere. The Receptive.
The brain is interpreting a space-time environment: This necessitates two
hemispheres. The Corpus Callosum connects the two hemisphere of the brain so
they work in tandem. You will see that this AI system also utilises inter-process
mechanisms between two units. These are the all-important complementary
connections displayed on the Anima Mundi, identified by the blue arrows, only two of
which can be seen already operating on this incomplete system.
Why the right brain is labelled ‘spatial’ by brain specialists which in symbolic
language means Receptive when on the Anima Mundi it is Creative and therefore
‘temporal’, is explained by the interrelationship between these two primary
archetypes. The term ‘spatial’ has been applied to the right brain because of its ability
to manipulate three dimensional images. If you imagine yourself in a space vehicle
returning from the Moon (the Sun lighting up the scene from the right) and now, with
the panache only the imagination can achieve, stepping out into star-spangled space
and watching as your vehicle hurtles on towards the slowly revolving blue Earth
ahead - you will understand what I mean. You are manipulating spatial images but
nowhere in the performance of this activity is there any manipulation of matter. It is
purely Creative. You can see from this that for us to label the right brain Receptive,
simply because it is known to deal with images apparently existing in space, would be
simplistic.
On the other hand, to label the left brain Creative, merely because in expressing
through matter it is compelled to conform to time, might be rational, but it would also
be unsubtle. Matter is obliged to effect changes sequentially. Objects can be in only
one place at any one time. Pick up an object, any object, and you will see that ‘by the
time’ the manoeuvre is accomplished time has passed.
That this system interrelates these two primal archetypes so that they cannot be
divided is echoed by the computer where, once the power is on, software and
hardware are indivisible. The light lighting up a monitor is the creative energy of
motion (yang) manipulating images that give the impression of space, the receptive.
The receptive structural layout of the silicon chip (yin) allows the computer to
compute, and the process of computing is thinking, the creative.
RECEPTIVITY TO LEARNING
AGENCY operating as
complementary process to the Self-
education agency in the Information
Processing Unit. Left Occipital Lobe.
Symbol Neptune. Sign Pisces. Yin
pole of the Complementary
Connection Source. Mutable Water.
With the addition of a Robot Systems Unit we now have a potentially physically
independent machine, but only potentially independent. Unless we want it to waste
a great deal of time learning through trial and error every action it can perform, it
must be programmed with some skills. I have seen a TV programme in which a
machine (part of the production line of a car factory) is taught to make certain
movements. The operator holds the appendage that is to perform the manoeuvre
and moves it in the way required. This is a receptivity programme, the machine is
open to this manipulation and it illustrates vividly why Neptunian people are liable to
find themselves victims of more unscrupulous natures.
So now we need to programme these patterns into a memory. Not only a
memory that can be brought to mind (we already have such a memory in the
database but a foundation autonomic memory - one that will automatically
operate a series of commands (macros) and this could work negatively as an
addiction. Neptunian’s are famous for rather troublesome addictions to drugs.
This programme is not only connected to the Data Base it also has direct
access to the Operating System in order to build its macros.
Neptune is identified by astrologers with fog and mist, free floating
molecules, and Neptune also rules film – we can surmise from this that in
conjunction with the operating system this position supplies the multitudinous
pixels upon which changing patterns can be projected. And here we have the
cooperation of an agency that offers pattern recognition (Jupiter). This
illuminates the necessity of the inter-process communication mechanism.
Between Uranus (electricity) and Neptune (chemistry) is the inter-process
mechanism that allows for the functioning of an electro-chemical device.
Here our original Operating System is ready to take on board this new
information (macro) so that it can be acted on automatically freeing this
burgeoning entity to concentrate on further learning. This machine cannot
reprogram its Operating System but through the previous agency it can
extend it.
Here is the OPERATING SYSTEM right where it is needed.
Sympathetic Autonomic Nervous System. Cerebellum and Core brain.
Symbol The Moon. Sign Cancer. Cardinal Water.
MANIPULATIVE POWER operating in
conjunction with the Creativity Agency in the
Information Processing Unit.
Left Brain Parietal Lobe. Symbol Pluto. Sign
Scorpio. Yin pole of the Complementary
Connection Time. Fixed Water.
Next, to make use of the survival data we
have built into the Operating System and
the skills it has already learnt, this machine
needs power, power to act on macros and manipulate the material world.
Pluto rules fossil fuels, oil and coal, underground products created by the
transformational energy of degradation and reconstitution. Scorpio also rules the
production line, a logical line of actions which produces a finished product.
Without this physical power the machine is no better off than an ordinary PC.
This position deals with motive power in our Robot Unit as Mars supplied
motivation in our information processing unit. Always in this system each side of
the complementary connections deals with the same phenomenon though from
the complementary (receptive-creative, mass-energy, space-time) point of view.
We now have a robot receptive to learning specific movements (Neptune),
memorising them (Moon), performing them (Pluto), but with no way of knowing for
itself whether it is performing these actions on something, or on nothing.
SENSORY AGENCY
Operating in conjunction with the
Sorting Agency in the Information
Processing Unit. Left Hemisphere,
Somatosensory Cortex. Symbol
Earth. Sign Taurus. Yin pole of the
Complementary Connection Form.
Fixed Earth.
Here we build into our hardware, sensors that enable the machine to build up
a knowledge of the physical Form of its environment and the physical Form of
itself. By providing data through sensors, preferably at as many points as
possible, our machine becomes intelligently and independently aware of its
environment and how it relates to its environment. (The complement of Taurus is
Libra.) Taureans are concerned with safety – you can see why.
This agency effects the means by which the
machine can relate to its material self and its surroundings.
EVALUATION AGENCY
Operating in conjunction with the
Communication Programme in the
Information Processing Unit. Left Temporal
Lobe, Left Hemisphere Motor Cortex.
Symbol Chiron/Asteroids.
Sign Virgo. Yin pole of the Complementary
Connection Work. Mutable Air.
Last of all this machine needs to be able to
gauge its success through evaluating the
result of its actions. Not only is this evaluation programme situated in proximity to the
previous agency, Libra/Taurus, the agency concerned with form, it is situated next to
the Database (where the results of past actions are located) and it has a direct inter-
process connection to the original video agency in the Operating System. Given the
skill to analyse and criticise the results of its work we have built in a potential for
improvement. Working as complementary partner to the communication programme,
also in direct contact with the operating system, it is concerned with organising the
myriad details. Virgo is a sign that seeks perfection and it is responsible for
refinement, including the refinement of movement. In this position, as with all other
positions, this machine provides the wherewithal through which the complementary
archetype, clever Mercury, our communication agency, can express itself with skill.
So here, again, are the
original three models from
which I derived this system.
And here is the completed
AI system based on the
above with all the inter-
process mechanisms on
show.
Each astro-archetype sports
a myriad co-ordinated
meanings; in the interest of
brevity I have only dealt with
a limited number here.
If I were a computer engineer no doubt I would have made a
better job of this interpretation but, I think, in spite of my
inadequacy, I have managed to illustrate the inherent logic in
this model. It is this consistent logic that convinces me this
model has integrity and that it is conveying profound information
important to the developing understanding of humanity.
Chrissy Philp
September 2012
