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[quote:Anonymous Coward 26131888:MV8yMDY4MjA1XzM0ODc3OTAwXzIzOUVBQTQ0] [quote:Carshy McCarsh:MV8yMDY4MjA1XzM0ODczNDY3XzZDMUE5QzY1] :hf: Wow, excellent on all points, and THANKS for caring so much about a reply from me that you went to the trouble to find this thread! I'm flattered! MSAI 8080 and CP/M, wow, sounds like we are contemporaries :cheers: [/quote] It was no trouble to find this thread - I've been a GLP user (more of a lurker than a poster) for about 7 - 8 years now. I know my way around. I was engrossed in the conversation you had with the AC from Argentina. GLP can be like walking into the Cantina Bar in Star Wars IV. But so its nice when you can have a deep, intelligent conversation with someone 1/2 way around the world. To point. My career is in computers. (programming, repair, database development, etc) But I was helping my son rake a yard today, and continued to ponder your thread in general. Food for thought. 1) Assume that we are souls that inhabit a biological body. When we meditate (or at least attempt to turn off our external bodily senses thru sleeping or napping), we can tune into our internal soul's capabilities. In my estimation, these abilities include dreaming, visualizing other places and the ability to leave our body. In developing your (what I will call) Bio-Digital body, we will need to ascend to the science necessary for a soul to inhabit and subsequently animate this body. Imagine having a lifeless Bio-Digital body waiting in your lab. You then go into a meditative state, astral travel out of your human body, then proceed to gravitate INTO your bio-digital body and come alive INSIDE it. Be able to see as this body sees, sense as this body senses. 2) Take this above concept to long term SPACE TRAVEL. Whatever current space agency would not have to worry about putting humans in suspended animation. Rather, they simply launch a vehicle with bio-digital bodies in the storage area (as they would not have to be fed? - hopefully). so anyway, when the space vehicle arrives at whatever distant planet, then have the same number of humans go into an Astral state. We could call then Astralnauts. Ha. (I hereby claim copyright on that name.) So souls here on earth literally soul travel to the bio-digital bodies on the space ship, and animate the bodies remotely, and go exploring. The advantage of this: if there is some kind of accident, and the bio-digital bodies are, Uh, killed? or otherwise damaged beyond repair, then the astralnauts simply re-inhabit their earthly bodies. So forget about the Turing test. forget about measuring the 'intelligence' of our creation. Think of the fact that we will want to create bodies that are compatible with the environment that it will need to operate in. Say for instance that we create a bio-digital body that is humanoid in form, but impervious to fire or radioactive waste. Using the idea in point 2 above, you could have trained astralnauts become firefighters or rescuers in a nuclear disaster. or we could develop bodies that can live in (say) methane atmospheres and "physically" explore a planet of that type. Gone are the need to ship large containers of oxygen to keep a human astronaut alive. Remember Ron Howard's Cocoon? The theme where the aliens inhabited human 'skins' so they could interact with us is where I see this going. Thanks for listening. [/quote]
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