Friday night musing.
Groot is very interesting, in the same sense that Star Trek
communicators were generators, in some sense, of cell flip phones.
For those of you who don't go to movies, Groot is a character in a
recent sci-fi movie "Guardians of the Galaxy" that is mostly fun yet
mostly silly. However, as with many fun/silly things, occasionally
there's some as-yet-unexplored-pop-culture-thing that may achieve some
traction. Groot is a distributed consciousness walking tree. He only
says one thing, "I am Groot", yet he is able to have conversations with
those around him and appears to have a self and some considerable
command of his physiology even though there is no apparent "center".
Audiences seem to relate to the concept of such a creature readily.
What would the consciousness of such a being be like? Who would we
have to become to build one?
C.
On 8/15/14, 12:07 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
I used to follow Nano-tech news. IIRC LANAL and UC Berkley earlier
this year was working on something similler in wich nanites were able
coordinate somehow. I wonder if there using similar technology.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Now, can we 3D print the robots?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/watch-a-thousand-micro-robots-self-assemble-into-wild-shapes/?ncid=tcdaily
-tj
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