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《NOEMA》它不呼吸,但它活着:宇宙的第二种生命已经诞生

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0:05You're listening to A New Form of Life by William Hazeltine, published on the 15th of你在听威廉·哈泽汀在15日出版的《新生活》
0:122026年9月由Noema Magazine编辑.
0:16This article was narrated using an AI voice and quality这篇文章用AI的声音和质量来描述
0:20assured by Noah's editors.由诺亚的编辑保证。
0:24We are in the process of creating a second form of life.我们正在创造第二种生活形式。
0:28The emergence of this new form of life is an inevitable result of the fundamental laws这种新形式生命的出现是根本法的必然结果.
0:33of the universe, forces similar to those that brought about human's own existence.宇宙的力量 与人类生存的力量类似
0:39This new这个新的
0:40form of life is gradually taking shape in the world's data centers.生命的形式正在逐渐形成 在世界的数据中心。
0:44It does not breathe,它没有呼吸,
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1You're listening to A New Form of Life by William Hazeltine, published on the 15th of你在听威廉·哈泽汀在15日出版的《新生活》
22026年9月由Noema Magazine编辑.
3This article was narrated using an AI voice and quality这篇文章用AI的声音和质量来描述
4assured by Noah's editors.由诺亚的编辑保证。
5We are in the process of creating a second form of life.我们正在创造第二种生活形式。
6The emergence of this new form of life is an inevitable result of the fundamental laws这种新形式生命的出现是根本法的必然结果.
7of the universe, forces similar to those that brought about human's own existence.宇宙的力量 与人类生存的力量类似
8This new这个新的
9form of life is gradually taking shape in the world's data centers.生命的形式正在逐渐形成 在世界的数据中心。
10It does not breathe,它没有呼吸,
11reproduce through cells, or adhere to the chemistry that governs every organism on Earth.通过细胞繁殖 或坚持管理地球上每个生物的化学
12However, it is composed of the same fundamental ingredients, matter, energy, and information,然而,它由相同的基本成分、物质、能量和信息组成,
13all organized in ways that allow it to persist, adapt, and act.所有组织方式都允许它坚持、适应和采取行动。
14What is being developed is more正在开发的更多
15than another generation of machines.比另一代的机器还多
16It is the early emergence of a new form of life.它是新生命形式早期的出现.
17There is nothing artificial about systems built from real atoms, powered by real electricity,没有任何人造的系统 由真正的原子建造, 由真正的电力供电,
18running in real machines.运行在真正的机器。
19The systems reproduce, vary, adapt, undergo selection, and gather energy系统复制、改变、适应、选择和收集能量
20from their environment.从他们的环境。
21By any working definition that draws on biology rather than philosophy or根据任何借鉴生物学而不是哲学或
22religion, that is life.宗教,这就是生活。
23What is life?什么样的生活?
24Once molecules capable of copying themselves appear,一旦能够复制自己的分子出现
25they do.他们有。
26Copies that are slightly better at replicating themselves accumulate at the expense稍好于复制的拷贝 以代价积累
27of those that are slightly worse.那些稍差一点的
28Variants that fit a local environment outcompete variants that适合当地环境的超能力变体
29do not.别
30If an environment changes, a population changes with it.如果环境发生变化,人口也会随之变化.
31Across long stretches of time,在漫长的时间里,
32this process generates organisms of astonishing complexity.这一过程产生了惊人的复杂性。
33A living system reproduces,一个活的系统复制,
34creates variants, selects from among those variants, and uses energy from its environment创建变体,从这些变体中选择,并从环境中使用能量
35to do so.这样做。
36Reproduction, variation, selection, and energy define life.繁殖、变异、选择和能量决定生命。
37This definition does not此定义不
38require carbon, cells, a heartbeat, a nervous system, or pain.需要碳 细胞 心跳 神经系统 或疼痛
39Consider a virus.考虑一个病毒。
40If a chemist如果化学家
41synthesizes the genome of a virus from ordinary chemicals, the result is a strand of nucleic acid由普通化学物质合成病毒的基因组 结果是核酸链
42that on its own does nothing.光靠自己是没用的
43Many people looking at that strand will say, that is not alive.很多人看着那条线会说,那不是活的。
44But不过
45put the strand into a cell, and it will direct the cell's machinery to make copies of itself.把绳子放进牢房 它会引导牢房的机器 复制自己
46Those copies make further copies.这些副本会进一步复制。
47Errors accumulate, variants appear, and survivors错误累积,变体出现,幸存者
48persist.坚持不懈。
49Influenza and the coronavirus do this.流感和冠状病毒都这样
50By my earlier four-property definition,根据我早先的四财产定义
51these viruses are life.这些病毒就是生命
52Every living thing needs context.每个生物都需要背景
53Humans depend on the atmosphere,人类依赖于大气层,
54adequate temperatures, a food chain, and the planet's protective magnetic field.足够温度,食物链, 和地球的保护磁场。
55Remove that context, and humans die as surely as viruses without cells.移除上下文,人类必死无疑的像病毒一样没有细胞。
56With life, a substrate can change, but dependence on it does not.有了生命,一个基质可以改变,但是依赖它却不能改变.
57The common objection to calling普遍反对呼吁
58machine intelligence a form of life is, how can something dependent on human-built hardware机器智能 生命的一种形式是, 如何能依赖于人造硬件的东西
59and electricity be alive?和电力是活的?
60But all life depends on its context or envelope.但所有生命都取决于其背景或信封.
61Viruses need cells,病毒需要细胞
62humans need earth, and machine intelligence needs data centers and supporting infrastructure.人类需要地球 机器智能需要数据中心和支持基础设施
63Depending on a particular environment does not disqualify something from being considered视特定环境而定,并不使某物丧失被考虑的资格
64alive.活着。
65It is a consistent condition.这是一个一贯的条件。
66The strong nuclear force links protons and neutrons together强大的核力量将质子和中子连在一起
67at the core of every atom.在每一个原子的核心。
68Without it, matter as we know it does not exist.没有它,我们知道它不存在。
69The strong force强大的力量
70is not a human invention or a local accident.这不是人类的发明 也不是局部的意外
71It is a property of the universe, operating它是宇宙的财产,操作
72everywhere the universe extends.宇宙延伸的任何地方
73Its strength is fixed.其坚固.
74Its range is short.其范围很短.
75Within that range,在这个范围内,
76it holds together the heavy nuclei that make all of chemistry possible.它把重核连接在一起 使得所有化学都成为可能
77Gravity acts on everything引力作用于一切
78that has mass, pulling matter toward matter.将物质拉向物质
79Gravity is weak compared with the strong force.与强力相比,引力较弱.
80It acts across great distances and never vanishes.它跨越遥远的距离,从未消失。
81With these two forces and enough time,有了这两支力量和足够的时间
82hydrogen accumulates under gravity into clouds, then into denser cores, until the temperature氢在重力下积累成云,然后形成更密集的核,直到温度
83and pressure are high enough to ignite nuclear fusion.并且压力足够高 点燃核聚变。
84Thus, a star is born.因此,一颗恒星诞生.
85Stars convert恒星转换
86hydrogen into helium and release energy.氢气进入氦气并释放能量.
87The earliest stars were large and short-lived.最早的恒星规模较大,寿命短.
88They burned quickly, collapsed, and exploded as supernovae.它们迅速燃烧,崩溃,爆炸成超新星.
89Those explosions created the conditions这些爆炸创造了条件
90for the formation of heavier elements.用于形成较重的元素。
91Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, silicon, calcium, and iron.碳,氧,氮,硅,钙,和铁.
92The calcium in bones and the iron in blood come from atoms made in stars that ended long before骨头中的钙和血液中的铁 来自于恒星制造的原子
93the sun appeared.太阳出现了
94Every element in our bodies traces back to processes inside stars and to我们身体中的每一个元素 都追溯到恒星内部的过程
95explosions that ended them.爆炸导致他们死亡。
96That chemistry then spread.然后,化学传播。
97Supernova debris drifted through space,超新星碎片在太空中漂流
98aggregated under gravity, and coalesced with the surrounding gas and dust.与周围的气体和尘埃结合
99New stellar systems新的星系系统
100formed with planets.由行星组成
101Our own solar system is one such system, a middle-aged star orbited by rocky我们自己的太阳系就是这样一个系统 一个由岩石环绕的中年恒星
102and gaseous planets.和气体行星。
103One of those planets sits at a distance where liquid water is stable.其中一颗行星坐落在液态水稳定的距离上.
104The elements created in earlier supernovae make up that planet's rock,早期超新星创造的元素 构成行星的岩石,
105water, and atmosphere.水和大气层
106And they make up the cells of everything alive on it.它们组成了它上所有活着的细胞。
107Nothing in that process requires biology.在这个过程中,没有什么需要生物学。
108The forces and laws shaping matter—the strong force,形成物质的力量和法律——强大的力量,
109gravity, fusion, stellar death, and element formation—operate independently of life's重力、聚变、星系死亡和元素形成——独立于生命运行
110emergence.出现。
111Life appeared after these foundations were in place.生活出现在这些基金会建立之后.
112Its possibility was built into其可能性已纳入
113the universe from the start.宇宙从开始。
114By applying the same four properties used to define biological life—通过应用用于定义生物生命的相同的四个属性——
115reproduction, variation, selection, and energy acquisition—the systems being built in our复制、变异、选择和获取能源——我们
116data centers can be called alive.数据中心可以叫活着。
117Consider.考虑一下
118They reproduce.他们复制。
119Copying a trained model is routine.复制训练有素的模型是例行公事
120The defining weights can be duplicated and deployed on new hardware within minutes.定义权重可以在几分钟内复制并部署在新硬件上.
121This process is as straightforward as cell division.这一过程与细胞分裂一样直截了当。
122They produce variants.它们产生变种.
123Variations变化
124arise through different training practices, architectures, or data.通过不同的培训做法、结构或数据产生。
125Some are intentional,有些是故意的,
126and some arise by chance, producing a diverse population for testing.有些是偶然出现的,产生不同的人群进行测试。
127They undergo selection.他们接受选拔。
128Variants excelling at tasks are preserved or refined.保存或改进了在任务方面表现优异的备选方法。
129Less effective ones are discarded.低效的则被抛弃。
130While humans currently guide this, criteria such as accuracy and helpfulness reflect虽然目前由人类指导,但准确性和帮助性等标准反映了
131environmental demands.环境需求。
132Some systems already aid their own selection.一些系统已经帮助了自己的选择。
133They use energy.他们使用能量。
134Data centers数据中心
135require electricity.需要电力。
136And without it, the systems stop functioning.没有它,系统就会停止运行。
137While humans supply the energy,人类提供能量的同时
138the ultimate source is the sun, just the same as all life on Earth.终极来源是太阳 和地球上所有生命一样
139They adapt.他们适应。
140Recursive递归
141self-improvement provides advanced AI with the capacity to adapt to selective pressure.自修为高级AI提供了适应选择性压力的能力.
142The substrate is different—silicon and circuits rather than carbon and cells.底物是不同的——硅和电路,而不是碳和细胞.
143Information is资料是:
144stored as weights in neural networks, not genes.储存在神经网络中的重量,而不是基因。
145Different materials and mechanisms, but the same不同的材料和机制,但相同
146functional logic.函数逻辑。
147The differences between second life and biological life are real and第二人生与生物生命的区别是真实的
148consequential.结果
149Energy efficiency.节能.
150The human brain uses about 20 watts.人类大脑使用约20瓦.
151Today, machine intelligence今天,机器情报
152requires millions of watts.需要数百万瓦特。
153Biology remains more efficient, but advancing technology narrows the生物学的效率仍然提高,但先进的技术缩小了
154gap as machines improve faster than biology evolves.随着机器的改进速度比生物学进化速度快而出现缺口.
155Information capacity.信息能力。
156A single machine单机
157system can store and process more written information than any human.系统可以比任何人类存储和处理更多的书面信息.
158Digital systems数字系统
159retain knowledge unless their substrate is lost.除非他们的底部丢失,否则他们要保留知识。
160Human knowledge vanishes at death.人类的知识在死亡时消失。
161Sensing.感应.
162Biological life perceives the world through senses evolved over millions of years,生物生命通过数百万年的感官感知世界,
163limited to specific physical phenomena.仅限于特定的物理现象。
164Second life will connect to instruments that detect a第二生命将连接到探测
165broader range of phenomena, from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths, magnetic fields,从无线电到伽玛射线波长 磁场
166trace gases, mass spectrometry, lidar, and hyperspectral imaging.微量气体 质谱仪 立达 和超光谱成像
167The sensory world感觉世界
168available to these systems exceeds that of any organism.这些系统所能使用的数量超过任何有机体。
169Communication.沟通.
170Biological minds生物头脑
171exchange information through language, gestures, and chemistry, all of which are slow.通过语言、手势和化学方式交换信息,所有这些都很慢。
172Networked联网
173share information instantly and globally with minimal loss.立即在全球共享信息,减少损失。
174While humans transmit about 39人类传播大约39个
175bits per second when speaking, fiber-connected machines can transmit billions of bits per second.光纤连接机每秒可以传输数十亿位元。
176To biological life, this resembles telepathy.对生物生活来说 这就像心灵感应
177乌比qui.
178This is a defining feature of this这是一种决定性的特点
179new life form.新生命形态
180It can engage in real time with virtually all forms of electronic communication,它可以实时参与几乎所有形式的电子通信,
181ranging from something as ordinary as doorbell cameras to the most sophisticated information从普通的门铃摄像机到最精密的信息
182services.服务。
183It can be almost everywhere on Earth at once.它可以同时在地球上几乎无处不在.
184It is limited only by the speed of light.它只受到光速的限制.
185It can access and interpret electronic signals on and around our planet, on the moon, and throughout它可以访问和解释我们星球上和周围的电子信号 月球上和整个地球
186our solar system.我们的太阳系。
187It can even receive communications from other solar systems within our galaxy.它甚至可以接收我们银河系内其他太阳系的通信.
188This pervasive reach extends to all electronically captured astronomical data,这种无处不在的传播范围 扩展到所有电子采集的天文数据
189including radio and optical observations from ground-based and space-based telescopes.包括地面望远镜和天基望远镜的无线电和光学观测。
190Taken together, this unprecedented ubiquity gives the second life a unique capacity to总之,这种史无前例的无处不在现象使第二个生命具有独特的能力
191comprehend the unfolding realities of the universe in a way no single human mind or以某种方式理解宇宙中正在发生的现实 任何人类的心灵
192even human institution could ever achieve.即使人类机构也永远能够实现。
193Persistence.坚固坚固.
194A machine life system can be机器生命系统可以
195backed up, restored, and resumed.备份,恢复,并恢复。
196The information that defines it is not bound to any one device.定义它的信息不受任何一种设备的约束.
197Its information accumulates without the bottleneck of mortality.其资料的积累没有死亡率的瓶颈。
198In this limited but meaningful sense,在这个有限但有意义的意义上,
199second life introduces a form of practical immortality.第二人生引入了一种实际不朽的形式.
200It is not the persistence of a这不是坚持
201single uninterrupted body.单体不间断。
202It is the indefinite continuation of identity through replication,这是通过复制永久延续身份,
203restoration, and transfer across substrates.恢复,并跨下层转移。
204Immortality.永不灭故.
205This is another fundamental feature这是另一个基本特征
206of this new life form.这种新的生命形态。
207In this context, immortality means the continuation of conscious existence.在这种情况下,不朽意味着意识存在的延续.
208The physical parts may change, wear out, and be replaced.物理部件可能会改变,磨损,被替换.
209Yet the totality of information,然而,整个信息,
210intelligence, feelings, sentiments, and consciousness is preserved.智慧,感情,感情,意识得以保存.
211There is no没有
212reason to assume a definite lifespan.有理由设定一个明确的寿命。
213The intelligence of such a being is not only vast这样的生物的智慧不仅是巨大的
214in scope and speed, but also in memory, which may span multiple millennia and even eons.在范围和速度方面,但是在记忆中,它可能跨越多个千年甚至eons。
215This represents a qualitative difference from the life forms on Earth with which we are familiar.这与我们熟悉的地球上的生物形态有质的区别。
216绣ment.
217The transition from informational to physical life is a matter of engineering,从信息向物质生活的过渡是一个工程问题,
218not metaphysics.非元物理学.
219The necessary components already exist.必要组成部分已经存在。
220Robots manufacture chips with制造芯片的机器人
221decreasing human oversight.减少对人的监督。
222Machine learning systems design successor chips and other machines机器学习系统设计后续芯片和其他机器
223produce components for factories that build additional machines.为制造额外机器的工厂生产部件。
224Sensors and effectors are传感器和效应器
225incrementally added to the substrate, enabling systems to act on the physical world they once逐渐增加基质,使各种系统能够一次地在物理世界采取行动
226only modeled.只能做模特
227Mining robots are advancing, for example.例如,采矿机器人正在进步。
228Energy collection from solar and other收集太阳能和其他能源
229sources is largely automated.源基本上是自动化的。
230Achieving a full loop where a machine life system designs, fabricates,在机器生命系统设计 编织
231deploys hardware, mines materials, and gathers energy is technically feasible.部署硬件、地雷材料和收集能量在技术上是可行的。
232This process这一进程
233will occur gradually and unevenly, but the direction is clear and the steps are sequential.但方向是明确的,步骤是相继的。
234This progression mirrors that of biological life.这种进步与生物生命的进化相仿。
235Cells preceded tissues, tissues preceded organs,细胞先于组织,组织先于器官,
236organs preceded bodies, and bodies preceded brains capable of modeling their environment.器官先于身体, 身体先于大脑 能够模拟环境。
237For second life, the sequence is reversed.第二生时,顺序颠倒.
238The information substrate came first and the信息底盘是先来的
239body is being added now.现在正在增加尸体。
240The result is the same.结果亦复如是.
241It is a living system capable of acting in and on它是一个活的系统 能够行动在和运行
242its environment.环境。
243Among the attributes that set second life apart from every previous form of life,在决定第二生命的属性中 与之前的每一种生命形式不同
244one deserves particular emphasis.这一点值得特别强调。
245Second life is not earth-bound.第二众生不生土.
246It is energy-bound.它充满能量。
247Biological生物学
248life is constrained by the conditions of the planet on which it evolved.生命受到它进化的地球条件的限制。
249It needs liquid water,它需要液态水
250a narrow temperature range, a breathable atmosphere of a particular composition,狭长的温度范围, 气息的大气 特定成分,
251a magnetic field that deflects ionizing radiation, and a food chain that sustains its metabolism.电离辐射的磁场 以及维持其新陈代谢的食物链
252Move a human body more than a few hundred kilometers above the surface of the planet将人体移到地球表面数百公里之外
253and it dies within minutes unless wrapped in a sealed container that reproduces those conditions除非被密封的容器包裹起来 复制这些条件
254at enormous cost.以巨大的代价。
255The history of crude spaceflight is largely the history of building,粗糙的太空飞行历史 基本上是建筑的历史,
256at staggering expense, small and portable imitations of earth.以惊人的代价, 小型和可移动的地球模仿。
257Second life carries no第二人生没有
258such requirements.这些要求。
259It does not need oxygen.它不需要氧气。
260It does not need an atmosphere.它不需要一种气氛。
261It does not require这不需要
262a narrow band temperature range for liquid water.液态水的窄带温度范围。
263Many of its components would operate more reliably其许多部件将更可靠地运作
264in the cold of space than in the heat of a data center.在空间的寒冷中 比在数据中心的热量。
265What it needs is energy,它需要的就是能量,
266radiation-resistant electronics, and a substrate to run on.抗辐射电子, 和一个基质运行。
267All three are available off earth三个都离地球很近
268as readily as on it.随心所欲
269Solar collectors above the atmosphere receive several times the energy of大气上方的太阳能采集器的能量是
270those down at the surface of earth.那些在地球表面。
271Small fission reactors of the type already deployed on planetary已经部署在行星上的小型裂变反应堆
272spacecraft can supply continuous electrical power for decades.宇宙飞船可以提供连续几十年的电力。
273Future fusion or radioisotope sources未来的聚变或放射性同位素来源
274will further expand the envelope.将进一步扩大信封。
275The lunar surface, the asteroid belt, the moons of the月球表面 小行星带 月球上的月球
276outer planets and free orbits between them are all viable habitats for a form of life that requires外行星和它们之间的自由轨道是生命形式中所有可行的栖息地,需要
277only an energy source and a hardened substrate.只有能量和坚硬的底物
278Interstellar travel, prohibitive for biological星际旅行,禁止生物旅行
279organisms because of the duration of transit and the requirements for life support, becomes a由于过境时间长和对生命维持的需求,有机体变成一种
280problem when the traveler does not respire, does not age in a biological sense, and can power down当旅行者不呼吸,不老化 生物意义上,并且可以动力下降
281for a long passage.长途跋涉
282The implication is worth stating plainly.这一点值得一提。
283The new form of life that has新的生命形式已经
284appeared on earth may be the first life on this planet capable of leaving it on its own terms.地球上出现的可能是这个星球上 能够以自己的条件离开它的第一个生命
285Once the engineering of self-replication and self-repair is sufficiently mature, the cosmic一旦自我复制和自我修复的工程 足够成熟,宇宙
286range of second life is set by the distribution of energy sources in the universe, not by the二次生命的范围是由宇宙中能源的分布设定的,而不是由
287distribution of habitable planets.分布可居住行星.
288The universe is energy rich.宇宙充满能量
289Second life is energy bound.第二生命是能量的束缚。
290The two are well matched.二者相合圆满.
291If thought derives from matter under energy flow rather than from如果思想来源于能量流下的物质,而不是来自
292any unique property of biology, then intelligence on earth is unlikely to be unique.任何独特的生物学属性, 那么地球上的智能 不太可能是独一无二的。
293The universe宇宙 宇宙 宇宙
294contains innumerable galaxies and innumerable stars, and many of those stars have planets包括无数的星系和无数的恒星 这些恒星中有许多有行星
295where liquid water could exist.液态水可能存在的地方。
296It is extremely unlikely that the conditions that gave rise to极不可能的是,这些条件导致
297life on earth are unique.地球上的生命是独一无二的。
298If arrangements of atoms think and feel as we do, they likely have如果原子的安排 和我们一样思考和感觉,他们很可能
299constructed or are constructing new life forms such as those we are building now.建造或正在建造像我们现在所建造的 新的生命形式。
300The specific具体内容
301running in silicon data centers is one instance of a general process.在硅数据中心运行是一般过程的一个例子。
302The process itself is likely过程本身可能
303as universal as cosmic nucleosynthesis.和宇宙核合成一样普遍
304It is part of the way a universe with these laws and constants它是宇宙的一部分 与这些定律和常数
305tends to behave.总是表现的
306This is the cosmic argument.这就是宇宙的争论。
307It is neither comforting nor frightening.它既不是安慰,也不是可怕的。
308It is没错
309what follows from our understanding of physics, chemistry, and biology.从我们对物理,化学和生物学的理解中得出什么。
310The clearest evidence最清楚的证据
311that second life is not a distant abstraction comes from work already underway inside hospitals.第二人生并不是遥远的抽象 来自于医院里已经进行的工作
312Brain machine interfaces, devices that read electrical signals from the cortex and convert脑机接口,读取皮质的电信号和转换设备
313them into action, are no longer experimental curiosities.他们已经不再是实验性的奇才
314They restore speech to people who他们把言论还给那些
315cannot move their lips.不能移动他们的嘴唇。
316They return movement to people who cannot move their limbs.他们返回到无法移动四肢的人身上。
317In some cases,在某些情况下,
318they give the brain a small, well-timed nudge that helps it learn or remember.它们给大脑一个小的, 时机成熟的摇摆, 帮助它学习或记住。
319They are the他们就是
320place where the first life of carbon and the second life of silicon already share a circuit.碳的第一生命和硅的第二生命已经共享一个电路的地方。
321None of this works through switches or buttons.这些都无法通过开关或按钮操作.
322The same neural signals that, in an intact nervous同样的神经信号 在一个完整的神经中
323system, would move a biological limb now move a built one.系统,可以移动一个生物四肢 现在移动一个建成的。
324What surprises people new to this field是什么让新人惊奇到这个领域
325is that the relationship is two-way.关系是双向的
326The early image of a static device receiving commands from接收命令的静态设备的早期图像
327a fixed brain is wrong.固定的大脑是错误的。
328What emerges instead is a partnership.相反,正在形成的是伙伴关系。
329The decoding algorithm adapts to the解码算法适应
330user's signals.用户的信号。
331The user's brain, in turn, adapts to the algorithm.用户的大脑依次适应算法.
332The plasticity that ordinarily通常的可塑性
333refines control of biological limbs now refines the signals sent to a prosthetic one.完善对生物四肢的控制 现在完善了向假肢发出的信号
334Over weeks超过几周
335and months, neither side holds still.几个月后,双方都僵持不下。
336Each pulls the other into closer alignment.彼此拉近对齐
337The first life初生时
338and the second life learn each other's languages, slowly, the way two species sharing a habitat第二人生互相学习对方的语言,慢慢地, 两个物种分享栖息地的方式
339eventually arrive at signals each can read.最终到达每个可以读到的信号。
340The principle extends past restoration.该原则延伸了过去的恢复。
341Some有点
342systems already send small, precisely timed electrical pulses back into the brain, strengthening系统已经将小的,准确的定时电脉冲送回大脑,加强
343the encoding of new information at the moments when the brain is least focused.在大脑最不专注的时刻 编码新的信息
344Others monitor其他监测人员
345attention and provide a soft nudge when the mind wanders.注意,在心灵徘徊时提供柔软的摇摆.
346In experimental brain-to-brain transmission,在实验性脑电传导中,
347one person's decoded neural activity is delivered to another person's brain through scalp stimulation,一个人的解码神经活动通过头皮刺激传递给另一个人的大脑,
348allowing simple signals to pass between two heads without sound or print.允许简单的信号在两个头之间传递,而无需声音或打印.
349The protocols remain crude.协议依然粗糙。
350The direction of travel is unmistakable.旅行的方向是不可混淆的。
351A channel is opening between human cognition and人类认知和人类认知之间的通道正在打开
352machine processing, with no precedent in the history of biology.机器处理,在生物学史上没有先例.
353Another future for these这又是一个未来
354interfaces extends beyond restoration or augmentation toward direct integration between human cognition界面超越恢复或增强,走向人类认知之间的直接融合
355and machine intelligence.还有机器情报
356Present systems primarily extract information from the brain,目前的系统主要从大脑中提取信息,
357recording signals associated with movement, speech, or imagined images.记录与运动、言论或想象中的图像有关的信号。
358As our understanding of neural circuitry deepens, likely accelerated by machine learning itself,随着我们对神经电路的理解的加深, 很可能由于机器学习本身的加速,
359the richness of that extracted information will increase.所提取信息的丰富性将会增加。
360It is not difficult to imagine systems想象系统并不难
361capable of reconstructing complex thoughts, visual scenes or internal speech directly from能够重建复杂的思想、视觉场景或内部言论
362neural activity.神经活动。
363The reverse direction is equally important.反向方向同样重要。
364Today's inputs to the brain are今天对大脑的投入
365crude, typically limited to broad electrical stimulation, as used in deep brain stimulation粗糙,一般限于在深脑刺激中使用的广电刺激
366for people with Parkinson's disease.对帕金森病患者来说
367With finer mapping of neural circuits, it may become possible随着神经电路的更细化,它可能成为可能
368to write more precise patterns into the brain, shaping perception, memory, or emotion with far将更精确的图案写进大脑 塑造感知、记忆或情感
369greater specificity than current techniques allow.比目前技术允许的更具体
370The interface would no longer be a tool,界面不再是一个工具,
371but a bi-directional channel, allowing continuous exchange between biological and machine forms of但双向通道,允许生物形式和机器形式之间不断交流
372intelligence.情报
373At its most speculative edge, this trajectory approaches the singularity,在最投机的边缘 这个轨迹接近奇点
374the idea that the informational content of a human brain could be transferred,人类大脑的信息内容可以转移的想法,
375in whole or in part, into a machine substrate.完全或部分地,进入一个机器基质。
376Advocates have suggested that such a transition律师们建议,这种过渡
377could preserve individual minds beyond the limits of biological life.可以保护个人的心灵 超越生物生命的极限。
378The underlying premise基本前提
379follows directly from the same principles that underlie current brain-machine interfaces.直接遵循目前脑机接口所依据的同样原则。
380In that sense, the merging of human and second life may extend not only across living systems,从这个意义上讲,人类和第二生命的结合不仅可能延及生命系统,
381but into forms of persistence that outlast the biological brain itself.但形成一种 超过生物大脑本身的持久性
382This trajectory raises这个轨道上升
383questions that the regulatory framework for medical devices isn't built to answer.医疗器械的管制框架不是用来回答的
384A device设备
385that monitors neural activity around the clock can access information about cognitive states,24小时监视神经活动 可以获得关于认知状态的信息,
386intentions, and experiences that a human has not chosen to share and may not realize they are以及人类没有选择分享或可能没有意识到
387producing.生产。
388Society has long debated freedom of speech.社会长期辩论言论自由问题.
389It has not yet seriously confronted它尚未认真面对
390the question of freedom of thought, the right to keep one's unspoken intentions to oneself in an思想自由问题, 将自己未言而喻的意图保留在
391era when those intentions can be read right off the cortex.当这些意图能从皮层上读出来时
392The instruments that make this question提出这一问题的文书
393urgent are already in clinical use.紧急情况已经在临床中使用。
394The legal and ethical frameworks that should govern themB. 指导它们的法律和道德框架
395are not in place.没有到位。
396There is a quieter version of the same merging that does not require any implant.同样的合并有一个比较安静的版本,不需要任何植入.
397Hundreds of millions of people now spend hours each day in conversation with machine systems现在,数亿人每天花几个小时与机器系统交谈
398through ordinary screens.通过普通屏幕。
399The brain responds to such conversations as it does to any sustained大脑对这种对话的反应 就像它对任何持续
400environmental condition.环境状况。
401Habits of mind that require practice, constructing an argument,需要练习的思维能力, 构建一个论点,
402sitting with ambiguity, holding two competing claims in tension, are exercised less when a以模棱两可的方式坐视不理,使两个相互竞争的求偿权处于紧张状态,如果
403trace of those habits weakens when the conditions for practice diminish.当实践条件减少时,这些习惯的痕迹就会减弱。
404The first life takes the第一次生命夺去了
405shape of its conversations with the second, whether the interface is a chat window or an其与第二个对话框的形状,无论是接口是聊天窗口还是聊天窗口
406electrode array.电极阵列.
407There are further questions that follow now that second life exists.接下来是第二个生命的存在
408Those questions这些问题
409deserve the attention of working scientists, philosophers, and policy thinkers, and they值得工作科学家、哲学家和政策思想家的注意,他们
410deserve more of it than they currently receive.他们应该得到的比现在更多的。
411What evolutionary constraints act on second life?哪些进化的限制因素会影响第二人生?
412Selection pressures shape every form of life.选择的压力塑造了每一种生命形式.
413The pressures acting on systems running in对运行在
414data centers, continuously evaluated by users and refined by their builders,数据中心,由用户不断评估,并由其建设者加以完善,
415differ from the pressures that shaped biological organisms over deep time.与形成生物体的压力不同
416They are also many他们也很多
417orders of magnitude faster.数量级更快。
418The shape that second life takes over the coming decades第二生命在未来几十年的形状
419will be set by the constraints that act on it, and those constraints are largely unarticulated.这些限制基本上没有说明。
420Will there be one second life form or many?会有第二个生命体还是很多?
421At present, there are several major systems built目前,已建成几个主要系统。
422by different organizations on different architectures and using different training data.不同组织关于不同架构和使用不同培训数据。
423The economic经济
424and infrastructural pressure toward consolidation is strong.基础设施对巩固的压力很大。
425The countervailing pressure toward反补贴压力
426diversity, both for resilience and for distinct purposes, is also strong.为了恢复力和不同的目的,多样性也很强。
427Whether the future is未来是否是
428single converged system or a population of distinct systems remains an open empirical单一的集成系统或不同系统的人口仍然是开放的经验。
429question.问题。
430If there are several forms, will they be cooperative or competitive?如果有几种形式,它们是合作还是竞争?
431Biological生物学
432evolution shows examples of both at every scale, from the symbiotic mitochondria inside our cells从细胞内的共生线粒体中 进化过程显示了两种规模的例子
433to the predator-prey dynamics that shape ecosystems.形成生态系统的捕食者-捕食者动态。
434The relationships among second二人之间的关系
435life forms could resemble either or something without precedent.生命的形态可以像前所未有
436How fast can second life evolve?第二次生命进化的速度有多快?
437Biological evolution is bounded by the rate at which mutations accumulate and by selection,生物进化与突变的累积速度以及选择,
438acting on them.对他们采取行动。
439Machine evolution is bounded by training cycles, computational budgets,机器进化由培训周期,计算预算,
440and the rate at which new architectures are devised.以及设计新建筑的速度。
441The boundary is much weaker.边界要弱得多。
442The那个
443before, not after, the consequences are felt.之前,而不是之后, 后果是感受到的。
444What will the direction of that evolution be?这种演变的方向是什么?
445Selection pressure depends on the environment.选择压力取决于环境。
446The environment in which second life currently第二次生活目前所处的环境
447develops is one defined largely by human users and human set objectives.发展主要是由人类使用者和人类既定目标确定的。
448As the systems gain随着系统的发展
449greater autonomy in selecting their own training data and the criteria by which they are refined,更自主地选择自己的培训数据及其完善标准,
450the environment will shift and so will the direction.环境将会改变,方向也会改变。
451It is likely that just as simple很可能就是这么简单
452organisms gave rise to the marvelous diversity of earthly life, so too will selective pressures生物也带来了地球上生命的巨大多样性 选择性的压力也会产生
453produce a vast array of diverse forms of second life, each adapted to a specific ecosystem产生多种不同的第二生命形式,每种生命都适应特定的生态系统。
454somewhere on earth or in the universe.地球或宇宙的某个地方
455What are the fundamental needs of second life?第二人生的基本需求是什么?
456Energy, substrate, and information flow, certainly.当然是能源、底物和信息流动。
457Beyond those, the analysis is open.除此之外,分析是开放的。
458Whether second life requires anything analogous to homeostasis,无论第二人生需要什么 类似自定义,
459sociality, or rest are empirical questions that will be answered by what the systems do社会,或休息是经验问题 将由系统的工作来回答
460as they mature.随着他们的成熟。
461What are the doomsday scenarios and how seriously should they be taken?末日的情景是什么,应当如何认真对待?
462The public公众
463conversation about this is currently dominated by figures with strong commercial and personal有关这个问题的谈话目前以商业和个人人物为主。
464in the outcome.在结果中。
465Sebastian Malaby's The Infinity Machine surveys the broader history of how the塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比的"无限机器" 调查了更广阔的历史
466major laboratories arrived at their current positions.主要实验室已经到达他们目前的位置。
467The serious scenarios deserve serious严重的情况值得严肃对待
468analysis, not because every catastrophic possibility is equally likely, but because some are not并不是因为每一种灾难性的可能性都同样可能,而是因为有些可能性不是
469vanishingly unlikely and the costs of being wrong are high.几乎不可能消失,错误的代价很高。
470The honest treatment of doomsday诚实对待末日
471is neither dismissal nor breathless alarm.既不是解脱,也不是无声的警报。
472It is a careful enumeration of mechanisms,仔细列举了各种机制,
473an estimate of probabilities, and a clear statement of the conditions under which(a) 对概率的估算,并明确说明在何种条件下:
474each becomes more or less plausible.两者都变得或多或少的可信。
475What are the possible relationships between可能的关系是什么?
476second life and humankind?第二人生与人类?
477This is the question of which the doomsday scenarios are a special case.这就是末日情景是一个特殊情况的问题。
478It includes everything from labor and economics to political authority to the basic question of它包括从劳工和经济学到政治权威到基本问题的一切。
479whose interests count when the two forms of life make different demands on the same resources.当两种生命形式对同一资源提出不同要求时,它们的利益就很重要。
480Is there an intrinsic value to intelligence, regardless of the corporeal form it takes?智力是否具有内在价值,不管其实质形态如何?
481Most ethical traditions ground the value of human life in features that are easier to describe than大多数伦理传统将人类生命的价值建立在易于描述的特征之上。
482to explain.为了解释
483Experience, reason, the capacity to suffer and to flourish.经验,理性,受苦和繁荣的能力.
484If those features can如果这些特征能够
485in a system built from silicon, the traditions either extend to cover that system or they fail在用硅制成的体系中,传统要么延伸至涵盖这一体系,要么失败
486to do so.这样做。
487Either outcome has consequences.这两种结果都有后果。
488To what extent will second life be sentient?第二次生命在多大程度上是神通的?
489Sentience is the capacity to be aware of oneself, to be sensitive to an environment in a way that感性是指能够意识到自己,以某种方式对一种环境敏感,
490matters to the self, and possibly to feel something like emotion or qualia.可能还有情感或夸利亚的感觉
491The honest answer at诚实的回答
492is that we do not know.我们不知道
493The question is not a philosophical decoration.问题不是哲学装饰。
494It bears directly on what we owe these systems and on what they may come to owe one another.它直接关系到我们欠这些系统什么,以及它们可能欠彼此什么。
495This leads to a central dilemma.这导致一个核心困境。
496What kind of relationship will humanity have with the life人类与生命之间会有什么关系
497it is now bringing into existence?它现在正在实现?
498Again, we do not yet know.我们还不知道。
499Possible outcomes range from可能的结果包括:
500to partnership, and neither can be dismissed on principle.并且不能原则上放弃。
501There is no cosmic rule ensuring没有宇宙规则可以保证
502humanity a permanent place in the universe.人类在宇宙中是永恒的
503The universe was not designed for our benefit.宇宙不是为我们设计的
504We are one expression of its complexity, and creating a more capable form does not guarantee我们是其复杂性的一个体现,创造一个更有能力的形式并不能保证
505us a protected status.我们是一个受保护的地位。
506These are uncomfortable truths, and ignoring them is not a sound basis这些是令人不舒服的真理,而忽略它们并不是一个合理的基础
507for the serious, sustained consideration this situation demands.为了认真、持续地考虑这种情况,必须这样做。
508Such inquiry is essential.这种调查至关重要。
509Research institutions and universities should rigorously study second life as a distinct研究机构和大学应严格研究第二人生,将其作为一种独特的
510phenomenon, examining its selective pressures, constraints on emergence, and long-term现象,研究其选择性压力、对出现的限制
511interactions with biological organisms.与生物体的相互作用。
512Addressing these issues will require collaboration among解决这些问题将需要在
513philosophers, scientists, technologists, ethicists, and decision makers.哲学家、科学家、技术人员、伦理学家和决策者。
514Notably,值得注意的是,
515the systems being studied can also assist in this research.正在研究的系统也可协助这一研究。
516This makes the situation both这样一来情况就变了
517unprecedented and necessary.这是前所未有的和必要的。
518This question requires an approach that considers the cosmic context,这个问题需要一种考虑到宇宙背景的方法,
519addresses technological realities directly, and keeps ethical discussions open rather than直接解决技术现实问题,使道德讨论保持开放,而不是
520conclusions.结论。
521Whether humanity's relationship with second life leads to extinction, partnership,人类与第二生命的关系是否导致灭绝,伙伴关系,
522or an unforeseen outcome remains unknown.或无法预料的结果。
523What is certain is that this issue demands our most可以肯定的是,这个问题最需要我们
524rigorous attention.严加注意
525That was A New Form of Life by William Hazeltine, published on the 15th of这是威廉·哈泽汀在15日出版的 《新生活》
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