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Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:14:10 +0000

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By: Fernandos

Fernandos — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:21:01 +0000

Then somebody will say: The internet is just using 10% if it’s brain. Thus making the capacity relative^

cheers ‘n beers

By: Franz

Franz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:16:11 +0000

thanks man, glad you dig where we’re comin’ from..

I really dig your art.. particularly these:

http://bonzarts.com/_wp_generated/wp9050a8a7_0f.jpg

http://bonzarts.com/_wp_generated/wp7744e2c9_0f.jpg

-frz

By: Bonz

Bonz — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:58:33 +0000

All I have to say is wow.. cool program (can’t wait to try it!)

you sound like my kind of people.

BTW- I love the idea of being a machine. The body is so… well, I’ll say it -dirty and it start falling apart when you get older.

(man in a body exchange store)- “yes, I’ll take the titanium one please with the pogo legs and copper patina the wings and sharpen the talons for me too”

PS- you “afford anythig you set your mind to”

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:56:53 +0000

I haven’t read anything by Kurzweil yet, but I listened to him recently on npr (Will We Recognize the Future?). While I definitely believe that humanity is evolving towards something profound, something bugs me about Kurzweil’s articulation of the future… like it’s too mechanical, too sterile. Humans pretty much stopped evolving biologically a long time ago. We don’t have to deal with the classic notion of survival of the fittest, where the weak are killed off and the strong pass along their genes. Even dumb and weak people still breed. Instead, there is a survival of the fittest in ideas our ideas, where those who amass the most power will have the most influence over the collective conscious of society. Humans have been developing more control over their external surroundings not through changes in their DNA, but by using technology as an extension of themselves. This has been happening since we figured out how to make tools and to use fire, and it will continue to happen. Will we someday reach a point where we are technically capable of living forever? Yeah, probably with the breakthroughs in stem cell research. We’ll probably start actively developing new strains of humans DNA soon too, although this seems like a creepy brave-new-world existence. But I don’t think that we can predict when it will happen based solely upon the current rate of change. In evolution, things tend to happen in spurts (a theory called punctuated equilibrium). Humanity will probably hit a wall before his nebulous, sci-fi notion of singularity occurs. The earth is already having trouble providing for the current number of humans. It’s supposed to take six earths to sustain the world population on the American lifestyle. Will the earth make it that long? What happens if everyone lives forever? Would humanity have to stop breeding? With the increasing disparity of wealth, what small percentage of the population would be able to afford immortality? Also, today we only use about 10% of our brains potential. If most people were to use 100% of their capacity they’d go insane (maybe we lack the philosophical framework and self control to really utilize too much of our potential at once, but that’s another post). That being said, what good would increasing our mind’s “processing power” really give us if we don’t use what we already have?

By: kate

kate — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:04:09 +0000

By: Franz

Franz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:45:25 +0000

no i am only talking about you kate. everyone else knows -robot is future.

By: kate

kate — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:13:04 +0000

To me, there’s a difference between “consciousness” and “sentience.” Worms are conscious; they’re just not necessarily sentient, I think. Dictionary.com assures me that these two words are synonyms, but they’ve always seemed to me to hold an important semantic difference.

(”While nay-sayers claim his science is questionable….” Are you talking about anyone but me here? )