From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 10:32:44 MDT
At 12:15 AM 6/8/01, Damien wrote:
>At 02:03 PM 6/7/01 -0400, Robin wrote:
>
> >machine descendants of humans. The book is about a visitor to a fictional
> >land which banned progress for fear of this
>
>Hence the `Butlerian Jihad' in Frank Herbert's DUNE sequence, and AI's
>replacement by training-augmented and drug-aided Mentats.
Also see the discussion of Samuel Butler's far-sighted views in Dyson's
"Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence".
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738200301/qid=992017741/sr=1-2/ref=sc_b_2/107-8888822-9575703
Max
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