Re: Seed AI and aesthetics

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@lorrey.com)
Date: Sat Jul 03 1999 - 15:27:52 MDT


Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Elizabeth Childs wonders:
>
> > ...if we don't have some aesthetic memory of the dinosaurs...
>
> We dont. Missed em by several tens of millions of years. However,
> if the ancients found dinosaur skeletons, they would be at a loss to
> explain them. Perhaps the flood legend recorded in the book of
> Genesis came from finding fossils of sea creatures on mountainsides,
> and the dinosaur legends were spawned by the discovery
> of a t-rex skeleton? spike

Considering that humanity originated from an area that was inhabited by
crocodilia that grew upwards of 30-50 feet long, we don't need to
'remember' T Rex at all.

Mike Lorrey



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