Re: jeff's cyborg cells

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 16:28:45 MDT


At 09:43 PM 1/06/99 -0700, spike speculated:

>(perhaps via Jeff's buckytube notion) they could perhaps form a sort of
>meta-brain, within a living organism, without otherwise disturbing the host
>organism. One could imagine a whale might be an ideal host, or perhaps
>a giant redwood.

In THE WHITE ABACUS, the global AI Gestell - the Big Giant Brain thing - is
embedded in the xylem and phloem of a tropical forest.

Damien Broderick



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