From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 15:19:57 MDT
A bit more transhumanist variants:
Vernor Vinge:
The chicken crossed the road at exponential speed, and there is
nothing we can say about the conditions on the other side from
this side.
Bill Joy:
The threats posed by autonomous chickens crossing roads are so
enormous, so frightening, that we need to relinquish poultry and
create a global ban on poultry research.
Olaf Stapledon:
Because the chicken felt the first stirrings of an inner
spiritual yearning to evolve towards a planetary chicken, and
beyond that a galactic chicken.
David Zindell:
Within all chickens there is an awareness of roads, and the
desire to cross them. A memory left there by the Ieldra of the
past and resonating with the future mainbrains and the life
blossoming across the galaxies of the Virgo supercluster and
beyond, a golden metaphor of the evolutionary bridging of the
gulf between animal and god. But how many chickens actually
fully remember this awareness coded into their DNA, make the
decision to fulfill these desires and dare to become that single
destinied chicken crossing the road?
Anders Sandberg:
To get away from finishing his thesis.
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