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Message #10699
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Dennison Bertram" dibst11+@pitt.edu
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:43:37 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: The more likely end: Bio-robots.BEAM: Tendency toward miniaturization
It seems most likey, that if anything we will turn ourselves INTO robots.
Our minds may be originial and uncopyable, but our bodies certianly aren't.
Look at the honda Robot. Even so, look around. Many of us already are
imbedding machine parts into our bodies. Paving the way for integration.
Braces, Metal Pins, Metal Plates, Imbedded Difibulators, Pace Makers,
etc... If you don't belive me, look at these links.
http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid%5F606000/606938.stm
http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_471000/471786.stm
The first one shows a blind man who has a camera attached directly to his
brain to give him crude, vision. The second is a project where a computer
was connected directly to a cat's brain enableling researchers to literally
SEE THROUGH CAT'S EYES. Interesting no? The future is a mix of man and
machine. In this lifetime I will be able to surf the internet while I sleep
and visit distant places through recorded and replayed vision, directly into
the brain stem. Eventually, we will be machines. Surprised? You shouldn't
be. It's evolution baby.
dennison
> >
>
> Upon looking at these statements back to back to do
> realize something? What if we make robots that "excede
> human capabilities of adaption to circumstances",
> would you then doubt robots outlast us? Who is to say
> that robots will never be able to replicate
> themselves. Production of parts is already done by
> mechanical arms and machines with a minimum of human
> intervention in most cases, and electronics (esp.
> digital) is a quite logical process, which one day
> could be 'thought out' by robotic minds. This would
> not require any miricale of true-life as some of our
> more dreamy list posters have predicted for robotics,
> but circuitry that has a bit of logic that is combined
> with the manufacturing plants already in use. Robotic
> minds recreating robotic minds, all the time improving
> and adapting. I can see this happening. Robots made to
> take over the entire process of making our robotic
> 'pets', then programmed to analize the circuitry to
> find any flaws and fix them. Over time, the circuitry
> would get quite complex. A massive disease comes
> along, or any other great tragedy that robots would be
> able to outlive and humans wouldn't, and viola, a
> non-magical way that robots could become the dominant
> 'life' on Earth.
>
> ~Daniel
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