Rudy Rucker: The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy (Theory Machine Intelligence)
Ok. Universal automatism. This is hopeful. However, if you remove four letters, you are left with Universal Autism. Is this where www.omat.com will take us? Rucker has a good discussion here about the integration of meat and machine, but before we reach that physical stage, there are some conceptual machines that might need to be looked at. Hey, nice new hardware! dont forget to upgrade the software! The scary thing is the implications of software development lag behind the hardware. Its like giving a two year old a loaded gun. by the time the kids software figures out the gun is dangerous, teh gun (sic) has killed off the software. Either way, there should be more discussions of these types of implications of whatever before we eventually whatever, whenever. Recommended.
- cone [Feb 3 2006 07:06 AM]
