From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 09:33:13 MST
*Chuckle* I clipped the below quote from this really crappy article on
Stephen Hawking I stumbled across at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21414.html. Given that google has now
cached/immortalized it, I suppose it's found it's time capsule. Poor Thomas
C Greene in Washington. Now your children and grandchildren can access your
pompous stupidity for all eternity. May they be entirely successful in their
future efforts to pretend they never heard of you.
"We humans invented such delicious and decidedly un-mechanical things as
religious awareness, dance, language, visual arts and literature (and I say
in that order). We are religious creatures; we are artistic creatures; and
when we're exceptionally cool, we're literary creatures.
No machine will be. Put this article in a time capsule and let it be read
fifteen centuries from now. I tell my remote descendants with absolute
confidence that they will not have built a religious, artistic, or literary
machine. With advanced genetic engineering they may duplicate a human being,
fine; but they will never, never ever, simulate one. It can't be done."
Russell Evermore
Independent Researcher/Polymath
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