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"Andy Baker" <respond@the.news.gr.oup> wrote in message 
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> Dude, I shit you not. Check this out.
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> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/brain.html
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> or http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022104658.htm
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> or http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/24/0024241
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> or http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1228132.htm
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> or http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65438,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
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> I may be a complete spaz drinking gallons of coffee a day, but I NEVER saw 
> this coming.
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> Andy
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Acckk!!!  A top poster!!!!


Fascinating links!

...why would the mass of rat cells decide that an F22 flight sim should be 
flown level?  Way above my level!

thanks!


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> "jbeck" <jNOSPAMbeck@zianet.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Andy Baker" <respond@the.news.gr.oup> wrote in message 
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>>> Ohoooh and speaking of monkeys!!!! I'm SO glad that this thread went 
>>> this direction!!!
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>>> Now lets say, hypothetically, OK.. that you build this robot, right? 
>>> but it doesn't have a CPU in it. got that, so Instead, you use a 
>>> monkey's brain in place of the CPU. get it? a MONKEY'S BRAIN!! Now since 
>>> the robot isn't alive till you give it a means to control itself, be it 
>>> a monkey brain or a computer, and you just happen to be using a 
>>> spidermonkey brain, which god originally gave life to, would it be a sin 
>>> then? Or would it depend on whether you took the brain from a dead or a 
>>> live monkey? I bet if you took it from a live monkey, it wouldn't be a 
>>> sin...or would it? If you took the brain out of the monkey, but let the 
>>> brain live in a robot, would you really be killing the monkey? or just 
>>> cutting off a part that.......it didn't need any more? kinda like 
>>> fingernails.... but a little more extensive, because in that case you 
>>> really wouldn't be killing the monkey, but I bet that if you took it 
>>> from a dead monkey, it would be even more of a sin because then you'd be 
>>> resurrecting a monkey, which is a feat only jesusmunkey can get away 
>>> with. Unless........ you could find the monkey messiah (son of monkey 
>>> god) then maybe you could get away with bringing his brain back to life 
>>> in a robot and monkey god wouldn't smite you, because your monkey brain 
>>> died, albeit temporarily for the sins of other monkeys... and if you've 
>>> ever been to the zoo, boy howdie can those monkeys sin. Do you think 
>>> they're born with those hairy palms?  It's amazing that they haven't all 
>>> gone blind for god's sake!
>>>
>>> Debate THAT Karl-Hugo Weesberg!!!
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>> Dude!  Less caffeine!!!!!!!
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