From: Stephen de Vries (PHEN@wwg3.uovs.ac.za)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 07:06:41 MDT
Peter Voss writes:
> >Technology will replace man as the superior life form <
> I don't think it's a good think at all! My life is much more important to me
> than the abstract concept of the theory of evolution. Seeing AI & AL happen
> is an important value to me, but never more important than my survival and
> well-being. In fact, the only reason AI & Al are of value to me, is to the
> extent that they expand my life (and the lives of people dear to me). An
> important philosophical issue I'd say.
What if you invented an algorithm which is crucial to the workings of
a very succesfull a-life organism which is set to replace humanity.
A meme you have created will be immortal, and the father-mother of a
new era in evolution. Do you want to live on through your genes, or
your memes ?
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Stephen de Vries
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"Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain
that is falling like an avalanche coming down a mountain"
- The Butthole Surfers
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