If the doctor became more ambitious, and decided to replace a species with a simulation, we have a ready example of what it might be like. Cars have replaced the functionality of horses in human society. They reproduce in a different, more centralized way, but otherwise they move around like horses, carry people and their possessions like horses, they even evolve into new styles over time.
Notice, however, that despite our occasional use of a name like Pinto or Mustang, no horse-like properties have emerged from cars. They do not whinny or swat flies. They do not get spooked and send their drivers careening off of the road. They did not develop DNA. Certainly a car does not perform as many complex computations as a horse, but neither does it need to. The function of a horse really doesn't need to be very complicated. A Google self-driving car is a better horse for almost all practical purposes than a horse. Maybe the doctor can replace all species with a functional equivalent? We could even do without all of the moving around and just keep the cars in the factory in which they are built and include a simulation screen on each windshield that interacts with Google Maps. With a powerful enough artificial intelligence, why not replace function altogether? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
