A Taxonomy of Minds

  • Super fast human mind.
  • Mind with operational access to its source code.
  • Any mind capable of general intelligence and self-awareness.
  • General intelligence without self-awareness.
  • Self-awareness without general intelligence.
  • Super logic machine without emotion.
  • Mind capable of imagining greater mind.
  • Mind capable of creating greater mind. (M2)
  • Self-aware mind incapable of creating a greater mind.
  • Mind capable of creating greater mind which creates greater mind. etc. (M3, and Mn)
  • Mind requiring protector while it develops.
  • Very slow “invisible” mind over large physical distance.
  • Mind capable of cloning itself and remaining in unity with clones.
  • Mind capable of immortality.
  • Rapid dynamic mind able to change its mind-space-type sectors (think different)
  • Global mind — large supercritical mind mind of subcritical brains.
  • Hive mind — large super critical mind made of smaller minds each of which is supercritical.
  • Low count hive mind with few critical minds making it up.
  • Borg — supercritical mind of smaller minds supercritical but not self-aware
  • Nano mind — smallest (size and energy profile) possible super critical mind.
  • Storebit — Mind based primarily on vast storage and memory.
  • Anticipators — Minds specializing in scenario and prediction making.
  • Guardian angels — Minds trained and dedicated to enhancing your mind, useless to anyone else.
  • Mind with communication access to all known “facts.” (F1)
  • Mind which retains all known “facts,” never erasing. (F2)
  • Symbiont, half machine half animal mind.
  • Cyborg, half human half machine mind.
  • Q-mind, using quantum computing
  • Vast mind employing faster-than-light communications

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