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LinkedInQuite a few of you sent me this one, and I think it's definitely worth posting, especially in the context of yesterday's blog about NASA's plan to drag asteroids to the Moon and mine them. There is a new architecture coming out for the enhancement of robotic performance, an architecture that will allow robots to be "independent," i.e., to learn in a fashion, and to perform tasks, in an almost human fashion: DARPA Building Robots With ‘Real’ Brains Take note of a couple of paragraphs here: "What sets this new device apart from any others is that it has nano-scale interconnected wires … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA: SHOOT TO KILL ROBOTS, AND FIRST CONTACT PROTOCOLS
September 21, 2012 By
I hope this one grabs you like it really grabbed me, when it was first sent to me by a friend of mine in the U.K., Mr. D.W.... read this one carefully folks, and see if the same thing leaps off the page at you, as it does me: Shoot to Kill: Autonomous Robots Developed By DARPA Will Not Question Orders The boundless amorality and bottomless insanity gripping DARPA - and remember, this is what we know about - seems to know no limits, and indeed, I blogged just a few days ago about a phenomenon that, in our private discussions while writingTranshumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas, Dr … [Read more...]
ROBOTIC SELF-AWARENESS ONE STEP CLOSER?
September 6, 2012 By
This very intriguing, and in its way, disturbing article was brought to my attention by a member of this website (Mr. S.), and it brings to the fore, once again, the deep need for a profound philosophical and cultural discussion on humanity, science, and the future of both: Robot learns to recognise itself in the mirror What intrigues here are not the implicit scientific and philosophical assumptions of the article - is this behavior merely mimickry by dint of a programming wizardry? Or is it a genuine robotic response to input from a mirror, a response in which it "recognizes … [Read more...]
TRANSHUMANISM: CYBORG TISSUES COMING TO A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU
September 1, 2012 By
I continue to be astonished - though I know I shouldn't be - by the pace at which scientists are dreaming up the bizarre and potentially humanity-ending technologies of transhumanism. But before I get to that, a word about how I tend to see transhumanism. It will be evident from the title of the book which I co-authored with my friend of many years, Dr. Scott D de Hart, that he and I see it not only as an alchemical process but as an alchemical strategy. The implicit philosophical premise of transhumanism is that mankindis the Philosophers' Stone, an essence - so to speak - to be transformed … [Read more...]
TRANSHUMANISM: DARPA TO CREATE ROBOTS TO “HELP IN A CRISIS”
August 22, 2012 By
I received this article on Alex Jones' Infowars website from about five different people, and I wanted to share it here, because it raises all of the issues I discussed in yesterday's blog concerning transhumanism: Pentagon Developing Autonomous Humanoid Robots To “Perform Evacuation Operations” This, I submit, is that "dark" side of transhumanism that so profoundly disturbed Dr. de Hart and I as we were researching and writing the transhumanism book (and more often than not, discussing things that we discovered, rather than researching and writing!). Here the dark prospects are … [Read more...]