From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 03:49:06 MDT
On 6 Aug 2002 at 10:15, Blunderov wrote:
> joedees@bellsouth.net Tue 2002/08/06 02:09 AM wrote:
> <snip>
> Plus I also do not relish the idea of our AI creations eventually
> coming to view us as their primitive precursors <snap>
>
> [Blunderov]
> Being a pet can be OK. Any pet who makes it into the Blunderov
> household, (an apparently easy thing to do) has, at the same time,
> found its way right to the top of the lucky-tree!
>
> If technology is to have an instantaneous influence on culture it must
> be inseparable from culture and thus from humans I would suppose?
>
> Maybe this is what HR Giger had in mind in his pre-occupation with
> bio=mechanoids?
>
That's the cyborg model; rather than uploading our brains into
computers, we would augment our bodies with synthetic organs and
limbs. If everything gets eventually replaced, however, you end up in
the same circumstance.
> http://www.giger.com
>
> Or maybe he was just not well.
>
> Warm regards
>
>
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