Interesting article.
When artificial intelligence was discussed I did not like the way it was presented. Sure I am on the other side of the fence when it comes to AI. But if consciousness is truly in the subatomic realm of quantum interactions then why is such value ascribed to it - that stuff is all random! Why would anyone think this is an inherently good thing or something automatically worthy of praise? And why the author thought this randomness could not be then incorporated into things other than what nature brought the world is beyond me.
If you listen to the DVD commentaries towards the end of The Matrix when the squiddies are coming in for the kill the look of them is described as being carefully calculated to show similarities with nature - i.e. their tails are much like flagella and are used for locomotion. Perhaps this is not only hinting that nature is damn efficient, but also that the machines are conceivably closer to biological organisms than the viewer would first infer.
When talking about Agent Smith it is important to note that taste and smell are very interlinked (at least in the way people perceive them). Hold your noise closed and drink or eat something and you will find that your sensations are limited to bitter, sweet, sour, and salty. Everything else you smell such as the "stink" in "I can taste your stink" is in reality your taste buds. That's right, when you walk into the bathroom and "smell" something stinky, a particle of that something had to land on your tongue. Agent Smith is 100% correct when he makes this statement and I'm sure that the ones who never thought about that before reading my comments will be more disgusted by stink now as well. As far as I'm concerned Agent Smith is very human-like and is exhibiting a simple Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
How could a bioport be inserted? Simple I saw a show on TLC where a guy had a 5 inch knife driven into his scull right between the two lobes of the brain - the doctors took it out and the guy was fine. I can't find the story I'm thinking of presently but here's another one where there were some side effects but the guy can certainly function:
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/trauma/case/case _18.html
And what is up with citing the second law of thermodynamics - as if it does not apply to ever kind of energy yielding reaction in the known universe. Something else I haven't read anyone else say is that biological organisms break down energy in many small steps not all at once so as to maximize the amount of energy used overall. Perhaps the machines harnessing this efficiency and control somehow
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Interesting article. When artificial intelligence was discussed I did not like the way it was presented. Sure I am on the other side of the fence when it comes to AI. But if consciousness is truly in the subatomic realm of quantum interactions then why is such value ascribed to it - that stuff is all random! Why would anyone think this is an inherently good thing or something automatically worthy of praise? And why the author thought this randomness could not be then incorporated into things other than what nature brought the world is beyond me. If you listen to the DVD commentaries towards the end of The Matrix when the squiddies are coming in for the kill the look of them is described as being carefully calculated to show similarities with nature - i.e. their tails are much like flagella and are used for locomotion. Perhaps this is not only hinting that nature is damn efficient, but also that the machines are conceivably closer to biological organisms than the viewer would first infer. When talking about Agent Smith it is important to note that taste and smell are very interlinked (at least in the way people perceive them). Hold your noise closed and drink or eat something and you will find that your sensations are limited to bitter, sweet, sour, and salty. Everything else you smell such as the "stink" in "I can taste your stink" is in reality your taste buds. That's right, when you walk into the bathroom and "smell" something stinky, a particle of that something had to land on your tongue. Agent Smith is 100% correct when he makes this statement and I'm sure that the ones who never thought about that before reading my comments will be more disgusted by stink now as well. As far as I'm concerned Agent Smith is very human-like and is exhibiting a simple Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. How could a bioport be inserted? Simple I saw a show on TLC where a guy had a 5 inch knife driven into his scull right between the two lobes of the brain - the doctors took it out and the guy was fine. I can't find the story I'm thinking of presently but here's another one where there were some side effects but the guy can certainly function: http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/trauma/case/case _18.html
And what is up with citing the second law of thermodynamics - as if it does not apply to ever kind of energy yielding reaction in the known universe. Something else I haven't read anyone else say is that biological organisms break down energy in many small steps not all at once so as to maximize the amount of energy used overall. Perhaps the machines harnessing this efficiency and control somehow