[MD] Paradise in cyber space

[david buchanan]

Keith, Krimel and all:

Spiritual Machines? Silicon-based Minds? For reasons I can't quite put my 
finger on, this stuff strikes me as being creepy and ridiculous at the same 
time. Things like the Borg of Star Trek, Darth Vader's death star in Star 
Wars, HAL of 2001 and many other works express the idea that we are losing 
our humanity to technology. There is something artless and heartless about 
this whole area.

Help me out here, gents. Tell me what would be the point and purpose of 
creating cyber sapiens. Other than realizing every poet's worst nightmare, 
why would we want to sand to think? I mean, the question does not ask if we 
can, but if we should. I'm very skeptical on both accounts.

dmb

Kurzweil also has a website devoted to essays & news items related to these 
trends: <http://www.kurzweilai.net/>

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