The preview of what an individual will do or how he/she will think in different scenarios of the situations by transferring the individual’s consciousness into a virtual platform. According to Harari (2016) , consciousness is an unnecessary biological by-product of certain brain processes and mind is different from consciousness; as intelligence without consciousness proceeds at a dangerous speed, the possibility of people to stay in the game also depends on upgrading their own minds without getting tired. Harari states that it is possible to trigger a second cognitive revolution by making changes in the genes of the human-beings and restructuring the connections in their brains. In this sense, simulated consciousness is a system that enables analyzing the people’s experiences in their lives, the way they perceive the events, how they attribute meanings to things in different situations, how they make decisions under certain circumstances, who they find important and any kind of criteria they consider during the process of decision-making. With this system, it will be possible to discover over the presumptive scenario how and in what situations an individual, who demands information, will use it after obtaining it, and also to predict matters such as the improvements an individual will provide for his/her work beside how he/she will make a decision in work-related situations during the employment processes. These systems, which will enable reaching an eventual result by picturing an individual’s ways of thinking in alternative scenarios, the way he/she will attain a certain result, the decision-making processes in his/her mind, his/her reactions and emotional reactions, will be able to be used in both individual acts and critical social, political and vital decisions.
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Administration of Mega and Open Universities With Technological Singularity Beyond Master-Human
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3476-2.ch032
Abstract
The aim of this study is to foresee a futuristic view of how open universities can achieve their sustainability in the context of technological singularity. Technological singularity predicts that artificial intelligence will prevent human intelligence in the future. Not only can artificial intelligence radically change human habits, but it can also alter learning practices. The foundation of a revolutionary transformation on humanity learning will be established for both the open universities and for the technological singularity beyond master-human. Thus, open universities are not only sustainable, but, at the same time, they can be transformed into ecological learning environments. The framework of the internalizations and predictions of the study participants on open and distance learning environments will help us save open universities in the future.