{"id":507,"date":"2010-10-12T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellrock2012.com\/2012blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2010-10-12T02:33:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T10:33:02","slug":"12-october-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellrock2012.com\/2012blog\/12-october-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"12 October 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"><\/head> <body><\/p>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Yes, we have a soul. But it&rsquo;s made of lots of tiny robots. &ndash;Giulio Giorello<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">PAG e-NEWS: 12 October 2010<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212; questioning dogma, ideology, authority, reality, and whatever is left<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; peeking behind the curtain<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; thinking outside the program<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; looking below the surface&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; lifting the veil<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Published by Peter A. Gersten, Esq. (ufolawyer@msn.com)<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Website:<\/span><\/span><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagenews.info\/\"><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.pagenews.info<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">MACHINEs &lsquo;R US!<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In the not-too-distant future: 1) humans will be replaced by artificially intelligent machines that will be able to read minds; 2) cyborgs, not humans, will be traveling off-planet; and any first contact scenario will be between machines. Just doesn&rsquo;t seem natural to me.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">What happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to ever-greater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines creates more intelligent machines in turn. This intelligence explosion is now often known singularity.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/consc.net\/papers\/singularity.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/consc.net\/papers\/singularity.pdf<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Cyborgs Needed for Escape from Earth<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">As the growing global population continues to increase the burden on the Earth &iacute;s natural resources, some historians and scientists think humans should prepare to colonize space. The problem is, we may have to alter human biology significantly to achieve that goal.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrobio.net\/index.php?option=com_news&amp;msg=&amp;id=&amp;task=&amp;pageNo=2\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.astrobio.net\/index.php?option=com_news&amp;msg=&amp;id=&amp;task=&amp;pageNo=2<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Astronomer Seeks ET Machines<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Because artificial sentience would almost inevitably outlast and outperform its fleshy, needy predecessors, Shostak concludes that any aliens we detect will be machines.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrobio.net\/exclusive\/3632\/astronomer-seeks-et-machines\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.astrobio.net\/exclusive\/3632\/astronomer-seeks-et-machines<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Computers that read minds are being developed by Intel<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Unlike current brain-controlled computers, which require users to imagine making physical movements to control a cursor on a screen, the new technology will be capable of directly interpreting words as they are thought.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/7957664\/Computers-that-read-minds-are-being-developed-by-Intel.html\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/7957664\/Computers-that-read-minds-are-being-developed-by-Intel.html<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ymlp41.com\/forward.php?id=Y1aq4&#038;e=pagenews@bellrock2012.com\">Forward this email to a friend<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ymlp41.com\/yY1aq4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" height=\"24\" src=\"http:\/\/ymlp41.com\/share_big.gif\" style=\"border: 0;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p> <!--YMLPUF--><\/p>\n<div align=center style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:8pt;color:#000000;\">\n<hr noshade color=#000000 width=50% size=1> <a href=\"http:\/\/ymlp41.com\/u.php?id=gussyyugsgubuugemmw\" style=\"color:#000000;\">Change email address \/ Leave mailing list<\/a> <br \/> <a href=http:\/\/ymlp41.com\/m\/ style=\"color:#000000;\">Powered by YMLP<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><!--YMLPUFE--><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fbellrock2012.com%2F2012blog%2F12-october-2010%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p> Yes, we have a soul. 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