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Hi Ho!
Every now and then, for some reason I've yet to fathom,
I get sent emails such as the following. I feel it only fair
to share it with others in the hope they may get more out of it than I
do,
and possibly explain to me just what the hell they're on about:
-Jerry
"One day I will dream myself into the real world"
-Crazy Horse, Sioux Chief
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> Subject: Grand Planetary Alignment
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:03:47 -0800 (PST)
> From: Franklin Wayne Poley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > We have another request, another topic for your second workshop titled:
> > "DESIGNING THE STAR PORTS USING ROBOTICS AND OTHER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
> > THE EARTH NOW HAS." THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORKSHOP IS to Gauge the level
> > of scientific development the Earth has reached on this level - YOU,
> > dear Franklin have been selected as the representative from your sector
> > of science to answer these questions! Is there anyone else in this
> > field we may need to invite, or do you feel comfortable being the sole
> > representative from your sector?
>
> Dear CBC:
> Further to the Wendy Mesley interview with Bill Joy and the
> subsequent Fifth Estate magazine on the Burzynski Cancer Clinic, let me
> suggest that we need to use that GNR
> (Genetic/Nanotechnology/Robotics) technology if we are to find cures for
> cancer, become advanced space travellers and so on. You may be interested
> in covering the Aquarian Perspectives Conference below, set for the first
> week in May. My other lecture topic for this conference is "The Future of
> Evolving Robots".
> During the first week of August I will lead a workshop at Alife-7 in
> Oregon titled "How To Make Xavier More Lively, Learned and Lucid Than Any
> Professor At CMU". Xavier is the robot which roams the halls of CMU and
> can be given commands by anyone in the world using internet. CMU is said
> by some to be the world's leading robotics centre. Now, if you at CBC can
> just get me to Humanoids 2000 for the first week in September, I will be
> happy to tell you all about "Xaviera", the humanoid robot and just what
> "she" could do now as a home and office mechanical servant. The focus here
> would be on "consumer robotics". I am pleased that Joe Engelberger has
> replied to my email to say he is going ahead with plans to develop the
> "HomeMate" robot as well as the "HelpMate" robot which he now has on the
> market.
> The contrast between the May conference and the August conference has
> to do with "psychoepistemology", ie "how we know what we know". My
> doctoral advisor JR Royce wrote a popular book on that topic in the 60's
> titled "The Encapsulated Man". It isn't that the rationalists in Oregon
> will know more than the metaphorists in New Mexico. It is a matter of
> knowing in a different way. If you visit <http://www.stardoves.com> you
> will find a web site rich in symbolism and imagery. And I arrive at
> similar conclusions about events of the near future using mostly
> "empiricism" which is my forte rather than rationalism or empiricism.
> You might even say that the "Grand Planetary Alignment" which the Doves
> give as the title for their conference is an alignment of minds as much as
> planets as physical entities. Refer to the opening image at the Stardoves
> web site of the Gatekeeper and the gates. Today we hear a lot of stargate
> or stargate-like theories including worm holes, teleportation, warping
> time and space, and black holes. The theoreticians put these out as
> rationalist theories. But they see arriving at an empirical solution as
> very distant. If, however, we use "evolving robots", we could be
> pleasantly surprised by how fast we get there.
> I am not denying that there are risks to using evolving robots to solve
> the problems of cancer, space travel, or world poverty. By analogy it is
> like deciding to cross the New Mexico Desert by hitching your wagon to a
> half dozen powerful horses instead of walking. The horses are fast but a
> mistake at that speed could be disastrous. And Bill Joy is correct that
> GNR technologies could well be weapons of mass destruction for this
> century and that they are much more powerful than the ABC weapons (atomic,
> biological, chemical) of the last. But space colonization itself presents
> the same risk. A Mars Colony could easily propel asteroids from the
> Asteroid Belt at Earth with far more power than all the atomic arsenals of
> Earth. The asteroids would then destroy Earth totally. But a colony on
> Mars could also send those asteroids into Moon orbit for mining on the
> Moon which would make every man, woman and child on Earth a
> multi-billionaire.
> Now if Bill Joy were to attend the New Mexico Conference he might have
> his Y2K nightmare turned into a much happier dream. I would say that an
> International Space Station-scaled megaproject would give us humanoids in
> 10 years which can do everything humans can do now in the way of work and
> more. That includes scientific work on cancer, space colonization
> etc. That time table coincides with the year 2012 given at the Doves web
> site which is the "end of the world" by Mayan Calendar reckoning. But each
> end is a new beginning. So the question has to do with what people want
> that new beginning to be.
> Sincerely-FWP.
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> http://users.uniserve.com/~culturex/Machine-Psychology.htm
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