Re: They're Made Out Of Meat!

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:48:30 -0800, Sir Frederick
<mmcneill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:06:12 -0800, El Castor <justuschickens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Rumpelstiltskin <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:30:48 -0700, El Castor
>>><justuschickens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Great! Thanks for sharing, if I'm not being too California by
>>>saying that. I sent the URL out to my whole e-mail list.
>>>
>>I knew there was someone out there with a sense of humor as warped as
>>mine.
>>
>It is both humorous and serious.
>We should both laugh and cry at the same time.
>
>I posted the whole text to alt.philosophy under the title "Philosophical Meat".
>All the responses have not come in.
>The story is more appropriate today. I saw it 15 years ago, it is more poignant
>today with machine intelligence soon.
>The books :
>"The Artilect War"
>and
>'The Singularity"
>deal with the issue without any ET.
>The issues are inevitable, and soon.
>
>Any ET showing up is a wild card and
>unlikely.

It was a most entertaining article. But where most of you guys
imagine the speaker to be of artificial intelligence, my take was
that it would be a conversation spoken by superior spiritual beings.
Or maybe they would have been the second group of "Creators" to visit
Earth.
.

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