Portia takeing over the world.

I was watching Discovery Channel last night and it was a documentary about spiders. And at the end they show a Portia. The Portia was trying to catch a smaller spider that was in it web. The problem was that the web was to thing to support the the weight of Portia. So the Portia started start tapping the web simulating a fly captured on the web. But the small spider realized that is not a fly and started shaking the web violently (this is a way to intimidate the predators). The Portia apparently give up and walk away. But... after a appear on the top of the net and start diving in to the small spider from above hanging from it's own string. In the final the mission was a success. He captured his prey. So as you can see this spider is very smart. It is to smart for the size of his brain. I think is even smarter than a mouse. When was the last time you seen a mouse make plans, except cartoons.
I was thinking that maybe we can make computers with spiders brain. I now it is inhuman but is for the good of the man kind.
So the idea is that if we will be able to tap in to the brain of a spider and connect him to a computer. Considering the fact that a brain is a adaptive neuronal network, we can make it resolve any problem with some training. This way will have a real biological neuronal network because a neuronal network is extremely hard to simulate on the computer. Connecting multiple cells like this based on spider brain we will create a supper cell that will be extremely smart. Maybe more smart then a human.
But the problem is that if we use spider brain for our computers, maybe at some moment the hunting instinct will kick back and we will get a big supercomputer that is wanting to hunt something. And guess what will be the most convenient prey ..... people !.

12 comments:

W said...

Hi, I've read an interesting article on Portias around two years ago in National Geographic. There were also some nice photos there...

david santos said...

Hello!
Very good article. Thank you
have a good day

David said...

Maybe Sheldrake is right. Intelligence is not located exclusively in the brain.

Unknown said...

Hi , 've enjoyed your idea and i like very uch the layout you've chosen, but remember other animals are not to be used by humans..
have a look to my photos if you like, my posts here are in portuguese, only the photos can be readed by all languages
cheers

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Unknown said...

Hi, i like your writing, but remember animals are not to make crual things with them.
have a look to my blog you might not understand portuguese but you can see the pictures !

cheers...

Unknown said...

I want to marry spider man..

Laurie said...

Peter Parker could have a field day with this. Are you afraid of spiders? Or just animals?

Monkey and banana said...

Really, this is in the making. If the Moore's law persists, in a decade we'll be able to do a small animal's brain, simply neuron by neuron simulated by a software, and that looks quite certain to be interesting. Human brain will come by the mid-century.

Don't be confused by what appears to be a high level of intelligence. This creature may simply have a few strategies or approaches nearly hard-wired into its brain. Just like the spider is 'smart' enough to make a web. Think of the bees- they have highly complicated behavior, but really are quite primitive. What they do is all they have - they don't come up with this behavior but simply have it hard-wired.

In fact, only few kinds of animals have been shown to posses actual self-awareness, so no threat from such computers yet - they simply will not be smart enough to realize they exist as an individual entity.

Even humans have tons of behavior wired from the old times. In fact we have a special piece of our brains for which the sole purpose is to trigger an unconditional panic attack if it recognizes a certain shape - including spiders, snakes etc. That's why fake rubber spiders still cause a funny reaction by some people :)

Dave Johnson said...

Interesting idea, reminded me of the time a spider crawled out of a cheeseburger I was eating.

DarkWing said...

ROFL....tooo funny

KA said...

Hey, very interesting read.

Thanks

Gledwood said...

Spiders are taking over the world anyhow!!!

I put you on my Best Blogs lists months ago and you never replied to me!! What's that about? If you're not careful I'll put the ants guy's blog in your place!!!!!!!

Gledwood
("Gledwood Vol 2")