Eugene Leitl writes,
> You don't have to start with bacteria, you could start with spiking
> networks of automata.
Hmmm... sounds like you should be participating in some of de Garis' lab work.
Incidentally (no flattery intended), why do you deprive Mind Children, Robo
sapiens, Spiritual Machines, and Artilects of your expertise by spending time
with us extro-slackers?
--J. R.
"Even someone who believes that in the future most humans will become the slaves
of all-powerful machines has to have a laugh sometimes. Why not have it with toy
machines? Taking a moment off from his work at the cybernetics department at the
University of Reading, Kevin Warwich, author of _March of the Machines: Why the
New Race of Robots Will Rule the World_, plays with Lego Mindstorm robots that
his students have programmed to box with each other.
"In his more serious work, Warwick is now trying to record his neural signals on
a computer and replay them into his nervous system. In this way, he hopes, he
will be able to drink a glass of wine on one day and the next day recapture the
flavor with Proustian fidelity."
--Faith D'Aluisio, _Robo sapiens_
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