Robots, cyborgs, and consciousness.

Robot insects are opening new visions for military and scientific purposes. But there is one thing that we always forget. Microchip-controlled spiders can be used to create the spider silk fabric. The cyborg spider can act as the shuttle. And those cyborg spiders can operate with robot looms. And they can make the spider silk fabric a real thing. 

What consciousness serves? Or what is the purpose of consciousness? This is one of the questions about AI and evolution research. Consciousness means that the organism is aware of its environment. And have conscious ability to interact with the environment. The thing is that. The creature interacts with the environment and also defends itself against threats. The consciousness advanced. When the creature needed it. The bacteria-type organisms. Are not conscious in the sense. As we know it. 

But otherwise, bacteria also react to threats. When bacteria face a threat. They start to form toxins to defend themselves. But that toxin release begins. When some other bacteria die and send transmitters. To bacteria that are the same species. Sometimes those transmitters are released when the shell proteins are broken. That is the warning sign to the rest of the bacterial population. 

Some insects, like wasps and bees, attack a threat. Which threats. Their population. Because some of them release pheromones under attack. When something tries to hurt a bee or wasp. Those insects put their poison into the victim. During that attack, those insects sent pheromones. That activates other insects to attack. But any of those insects is conscious in the sense that we know that thing. Those insects sometimes sacrifice themselves for their community. 

The cyborg insect’s structure. 

Consciousness is not reflexive. We know that a robot can react to things. Like pushing people away, which damages it. The reaction that robots introduce. Depends on how they are programmed. The program determines the robot’s behavior. 

When we think about computers that refuse to shut themselves down. The thing that makes this thing possible is programming. The system refuses to shut it down because it “thinks” that command is somehow unauthorized. Another thing that we must realize is that computers, even the most complicated computers. Don’t think like humans. 

There are things. That the system sees or otherwise detects. The system compiles that data with its databases. And if there is a match with the thing. When the system detects. And its database, that thing acts as a trigger to action, or an action series. If that action is connected with that database. But the computer doesn’t actually think. It connects certain things with certain actions. 

The computer that doesn’t think like humans might be the default. But the thing is that the biological neural computers might be different. There has been at least theoretical research. About the possibility of using things like bees or some other collective insects as neural computers. The system connects the computer to the bee's neural systems. That means the system can offer the base to those bees. Then they connect their nervous system together using microchips. 

This causes an interesting idea. The bee swarm can be connected together using microchips. These are used to turn insects into cyborgs. Cyborg insects are tools that were created for scientific purposes. The same systems can be used to connect those insects under one command. The microchips can allow mutual communication between swarm members. 

In some models, the biological neural computer could be three layers of a honeycomb. And the bees are connected to the computer. Those three layers play the same roles as the hindbrain, midbrain, and cerebral cortex do in human brains. There is a possibility. To share insects in three groups. And those things play the same role in the 3D swarm. Those possibilities are open in modern technology. 

The thing is that those systems are one of the things. That makes us think about consciousness. The brain in the vat. It is only a thin experiment. Or, is it? Modern biotechnology makes it possible. To clone neurons. Those cloned neurons can be used as computers. Today, or maybe quite soon. It is possible to create a clone of the human brain. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat