Re: www.starlab.org

delriviere christophe (mich@thehzone.tzo.org)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:00:45 +0100

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De : Mitchell Porter <mitchtemporarily@hotmail.com> À : extropians@lucifer.com <extropians@lucifer.com> Date : mardi 30 novembre 1999 17:51
Objet : www.starlab.org

>This is a "blue-sky research laboratory" in Brussels, Belgium.
>They list Hugo de Garis and Stuart Hameroff amongst their
>research staff, along with dozens of other people working on
>"bits, atoms, neurons, and genes (BANG)". It's a very odd mix,
>and the website as a whole strikes me as somehow starry-eyed,
>at least for the homepage of a business enterprise getting
>millions of euros in funding. I doubt the organization's
>ability to be a competitive research center across such a
>broad range of disciplines. But who knows. Maybe the Singularity
>will happen in Belgium, not Texas.
>

Thanks !!!... >*infinitely*< interesting. An ultimate shame but I wasn't even aware of this stuff.
I live in Belgium but I had the idea that there was mostly total bullshit here ;-)
Seems it's a sponsor of the Extropy Institute BTW. anybody not too far and interested about planing a visit ?