In a message dated 11/21/2000 2:10:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
max@maxmore.com writes:
<< Apparently the reporter read a very different version of The Age of
Spiritual Machines than the one I read. Several of Robert's criticisms
should be aimed at the reporter, not at Ray Kurzweil. The one quoted above
in particular. Quite unlike Hans Moravec, Kurzweil goes to considerable
lengths to show how humans and machine intelligence will merge. His is
*not* a picture of us vs. them.
Max >>
That is also true of George Dyson (another whipping-boy of Jaron Lanier) who
see's humanity, one way or the other, as the Ghost in the machine. We are
Borg, we are the machine, want some nachos?
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