I should say I'm bringing this up in the context of the sister thread,
so wit, there we might gain greater insight by considering sentient
constructs other than human, this being one of the roles of science
fiction. The less seriously proposed, perhaps the better.
On 8/15/14, 8:15 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
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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