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Article #2102Re: Technological Singularity
From: Ian J. Lewis
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 00:00
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Craig Burley wrote: > "James Sharman" <james@exaflop.demon.co.uk> writes: > > > On a completely different track, who is to say that the eventual > > replacement of humanity with an enhanced version is not the way to go. It > > may be possible to view this development as a bizzar twist on evolution. You > > should also rememeber that these supermen will be our decendants and it does > > not take to much for us to wish the best for the future. > > > > thag: ook, look at them with clubs and fire > > thog: They replacing us, must put a stop to it. > > That was my biggest problem with the monumentally stupid US television > series "Prey" -- exactly why was a new race of superior beings a > *problem*? Half-;), of course. > > Also interesting is to what extent this already happened among hominids. Evolution is a mythology. As the biosphere develops - so do its constituent parts. We are part of this oneness. Next you will be saying that the foetus was replaced by the baby by natural selection; when all along it was a mere unfolding into matter through time. The Noosphere. This is only an example - please don`t take it literally. IJL
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd6dd,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: fd5f7,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd5f7,public X-Google-Thread: 102b75,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public From: "Ian J. Lewis" <ian.lewis3@virgin.net> Subject: Re: Technological Singularity Date: 1998/06/09 Message-ID: <357C6ED2.434709D0@virgin.net> X-Deja-AN: 360836102 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <357011e7.0@news.victoria.tc.ca> <goCd1.854$On1.3424263@ptah.visi.com> <6l7ea1$p9d$1@andros.cygnus.com> <3577AC63.70B2@remove.muenchen.this.org.junk> <897046320.6598.0.nnrp-08.c2d9a433@news.demon.co.uk> <m3ra14ne5f.fsf@fred.muc.de> <897055411.10293.0.nnrp-08.c2d9a433@news.demon.co.uk> <y6g1hjkby5.fsf@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Freelance Newsgroups: sci.econ,bionet.neuroscience,comp.ai,comp.arch,comp.robotics.misc