Meditating Autorevs

While watching Ergo Proxy, a depressing cyberpunk set on a desolate earth, I saw meditating autorevs. An autorev, in ergo proxy universe, is just an android with no true "soul". However they get infected by a certain "cogito virus" and acquire a "soul". A "soul" is just a matter of self awareness, acquiring one makes them question everything from their purpose as an entourage, to their behaviour as a companion. While all of this might seem obvious; what struck me was given a life times experience, knowledge and a processing power of a million circuits, what would a being trying to discover itself do ? As in the anime, Eegi finds itself meditating and brooding over its own life as do a lot more of the androids. Well we have meditating androids essentially. Like meditating humans. What would normally an unexpected behavior for a machine, suddenly becomes acceptable both intuitively and intellectually. So consider this, what if we build a machine not essentially "self aware" per say, but capable of analyzing the history and the knowledge of at least an entire lifetime ? Would this give us the answer to universe, life and everything ? Well probably not !!

But it sure sounds interesting on what would it achieve on years of computation time spent on brooding. However, to answer the question we must formulate the question first. The formulation of the question is essentially expressing the process of meditation in terms of mathematical equations !! We probably know all the hows, but we need to know all the whys. Sure this will make another blog post sometime :)