AI Re: In Which Jung prewrites AtD's epigraph

[David Morris]

"There is no security against the ultimate development of mechanical
consciousness, in the fact of machines possessing little consciousness
now. A mollusc has not much consciousness. Reflect upon the
extraordinary advance which machines have made during the last few
hundred years, and note how slowly the animal and vegetable kingdoms
are advancing. The more highly organized machines are creatures not so
much of yesterday, as of the last five minutes, so to speak, in
comparison with past time."
~Samuel Butler - Erewhon, 1872

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> From: Jude Bloom <jude at bloomradio.com>
> To: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> Cc: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 6:24 PM
> Subject: Re: In Which Jung prewrites AtD's epigraph
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> Why do we suppose that humans and machines will be different entities? Don't
> all the arrows seem to be pointing to a convergence?
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> Unless you're a kind of dualist, there are already sentient machines, that
> is, us.  ??
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> On Mar 16, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>> Still, as Pynchon's thoughts seem to imply, the real question for humans
>> is when we can manufacture machines to do everything  human's used to do,
>> then what will human's do? I guess fight over who programs the machines and
>> where to get the energy without killing everything.  Always something fun to
>> look forward to.
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