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oneshowatatime
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untamedyawp
thanks mark-
krammark
thx doze
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perpetuallyphil
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perpetuallyphil
Evolution’s third replicator
“WE HUMANS have let loose something extraordinary on our planet – a third replicator – the consequences of which are unpredictable and possibly dangerous.
What do I mean by “third replicator”? The first replicator was the gene – the basis of biological evolution. The second was memes – the basis of cultural evolution. I believe that what we are now seeing, in a vast technological explosion, is the birth of a third evolutionary process. We are Earth’s Pandoran species, yet we are blissfully oblivious to what we have let out of the box…..
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Putting it that way makes the answer easier to see. Memes are a new kind of information – behaviours rather than DNA – copied by a new kind of machinery – brains rather than chemicals inside cells. This is a new evolutionary process because all of the three critical stages – copying, varying and selection – are done by those brains. So does the same apply to new technology?
There is a new kind of information: electronically processed binary information rather than memes. There is also a new kind of copying machinery: computers and servers rather than brains. But are all three critical stages carried out by that machinery?….”
full article via newscientist
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homad
Robot attacked a Swedish Factory Worker
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tallbridge
thats pretty wild phil….my mycelium studies have taken another step when i finally saw something that was actually quite obvious
plants need a mycelial network to spawn the type of growth that exists and there’s certainly evidence to suggest humans becoming more like plants….mycelium rolled around for a few million years before the flora we know of today started to take off
i guess all the television providers in the us have around 100 million subscribers combined
facebook has something like 500 million users now
obviously there’s probably 250 million inactive facebook accounts…but stillthey really need to graph the internet again…that last one was in 2005 and now w/ all the syndication it probably just looks like a double torus spinning its face off (or that picture above)
i haven’t read the whole article yet, i’ll post some more later
i guess the web is a creature of pure information…
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untamedyawp
really interesting…
“A living creature, once just a vehicle of the first replicator, was now the copying machinery for the next.”
it’s really crazy how attaching symbolic words to human observed and participated phenomenon all the sudden makes those phenomenon seem so real.all the microcosms of the macrocosm are lining up getting ready for blast off.
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tallbridge
Evogrid
um this burner dude…bruce damer….wants to virtually simulate the creation of life by hooking up a million computers….i guess he thinks if we can simulate digitially life forms emerging, from an asteroid? we could transmit these to a nano-fiber creating machine on a rocket which i guess can turn the digital data about the life form into a material creation….something to think aboout this monday….;)
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krammark
turning digital data into material creation = fedex at 299,792,458 m/s
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tallbridge
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untamedyawp
Open-Source Humanoids
Via Current via The Daily Galaxy
Open sourcing robotics clears the way for all kinds of incredible innovations. Some developments might not have the security or stability of commercial releases, but you don’t have to wait for a million people to want something before it becomes profitable. The internet has already shown that sheer love and hard work can create the most amazing things, and now that same creative energy can be directed into things that can then get up and walk.
perpetuallyphil 10:29 pm on October 5, 2009 Permalink
hehe, fookin brits…
“i thinks its attempting some sort of mating ritual” -thats what she said?