Gödelian Embodied Self-Referential Genomic Intelligence : Lessons for AI and AGI from Genomic Blockchain

Sheri Marina Markose^*

• University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

Security of code based digital records has become a major concern of the 21st century. AI and AGI can be hacked to pieces by digital adversaries, or the fulfilment of AI objectives can lead to an existential threat. This sitting duck problem of all software systems is variously called the Control or Misalignment problem. Blockchain technology, circa 2009, with hashing algorithms relying on the consensus-based hashing algorithm mechanism in manmade software systems can keep early blocks of software immutable and tamper proof from digital malware, while new blocks can be added that are consistent with the original blocks. There is evidence that the ancient precedent of the genomic blockchain underpinning the unbroken chain of life uses a self-referential rather than a consensus-based hashing algorithm. Knowledge of self-codes permits biotic elements to achieve a hack-free agenda by self-reporting that they have been 'negated' or hacked, exactly implementing the Gödel Sentence from the foundational mathematics of Gödel, Turing and Post (G-T-P). This results in an arms race in open-ended novelty to secure the primacy of original self-codes. Selfhood and autonomy are staples of neuroscience on complex self-other social cognition and increasingly of autonomous AGI agents capable of end-to-end programmed self-assembly. My perspective is that self-referential G-T-P information processing first found in the adaptive immune system of jawed fish 500 mya and latterly in mirror neuron systems of humans has enabled code-based self-organized intelligent systems like life to survive over 3.7 billion years. Some lessons for AGI can be gleaned from this discussion.