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To: HKMk23

It was a thread about integrating humans and robots. Since I had addressed that subject in my book, I pulled out an appropriate excerpt.

My emphasis was that there are advantages, and very distinct disadvantages.


4,001 posted on 07/21/2006 6:07:40 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mom said to call a spade a spade. Dad taught me what to call it when you trip over it in the shed.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Such integration would have to be limited to low-level microcontrollers tied into musculoneural structures for use in prostheses.

A true AI tied into the central nervous system would be a very dangerous thing, indeed.

It would bring an entirely new angle to John Milton's quote:
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell; and a Hell of Heaven."


4,010 posted on 07/21/2006 6:17:18 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Teach your children war that your granchildren may know peace.)
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