To find the weakness, vulnerabilities, and inconsistencies in that code, to open source it, and to start rewriting it, so that we can have something a bit more useful that’s part of our everyday behavior.
#Nodus hacks software#
The first step is to use the hacking ethos to analyze the software we already run as the human beings: our beliefs, behavioral patterns, ideologies. Step 1: Hacking the OS, or Entering the “Monitor Mode” Bringing back the natural into the artificial and vice versa (by way of mutations), reactivating the life-long relation between the nature and art.Ī Solution: Embodied Understanding of Complex Systemsĭuring the workshops at 35C3 we proposed a framework that we developed in Nodus Labs: ∞OS operating system - a kind of software for the human beings. This gap between the body and technology should be addressed and we have to establish a feedback loop between body practices, embodied understanding, technology, and intelligence. It’s very likely that if we don’t do anything about regaining them back, natural selection will take care of it (and of us). The reason this happens is that, on the one side, we delegated all those properties to technology and, on the other side, these skills are not necessary for bare survival (although they do increase our chances). In fact, we are born with all those principles ingrained in us, however, the way we structured our culture, education and society gets us rid of all those good habits that evolution has so carefully selected for us. It’s very ironic to see people talking about “resilience”, “adaptation”, “fluidity” and “flexibility” while being totally stuck in their bodies and in their habits. Too often we are trapped inside outdated behavioral patterns and belief systems. On the other hand, our bodies can also learn something from technology and various contemporary frameworks. Empathic interfaces can only work if they know what it feels like to feel. If we are to then put this intelligence back to work outside of the physical realm, it will also help us make whatever it is that we create, including the artificial intelligence, more humane. We need to understand how it works and to start being creative with it: learning about various movement systems, healing techniques, body practices that harness the natural intelligence contained within the body, learning from it and with it.
Making this link back to the body extends beyond merely being “fit”. Without making it sound too esoteric, the body is, indeed, a very complex and sophisticated system that we can learn a lot from, especially if we are to create artificial intelligence. We often tend to forget that the human body is an endless source of natural biological intelligence, which we can harness to make better inventions. Elon Musk sleeps only 3 hours and startup entrepreneurs go to bed in their jogging clothes just to save time in the morning… The body is either ignored or relegated to the position of an imperfect tool that doesn’t work well enough and needs to be kept in shape, fixed, augmented, and improved in order to increase efficiency of its output. Technology is too much concerned with the mind (the AI, neural networks, etc.), people are not in their bodies. The problem that we address is a huge divide between the technology and the body today. For example, to solve complex engineering problems and in the creation of the AI.Ī Problem: the Gap between the Body and Technology The implications of this span far beyond the body itself: having a better embodied understanding of the natural principles that govern complex systems can provide us the knowledge that can be used in other contexts, outside of the physical realm. We can then reverse-engineer the “code” our software runs, open source it, and reprogram it, so that it’s more aligned with the natural intelligence that can be observed in the living systems and in biology. The starting point is a proposition to think of the body as the “hardware” and our habits, patterns of behavior, morals, rules, and ethics as the “software”.
In this article we want to expand those ideas and take them further.
#Nodus hacks series#
In the frame of this year’s congress (35C3) we presented a talk on Bodymind Operating Systems and a series of workshops where we explored how we can use the notions derived from complex systems science and hacking to reprogram ourselves, and in turn, influence the development of artificial intelligence with the new insights we get from our body. CCC is an annual event organized by Chaos Computer Club that attracts software engineers, technology professionals, activists and hackers from around the world.
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