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>From: squish@umd5.umd.edu (Squish)
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Subject: Re: AI as the Next Stage in Evolution
Summary: good reading and relaxing reading
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Date: 6 Dec 91 20:20:17 GMT
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Perhaps instead of trying to comprehend why my Nnet isn't doing what it should
be doing I should be standing in rapture watching life growing in a petri
dish.  One of these days it just might stand up and leave and repopulating
the world in its image - perhaps it will even be so sophisticated that it will
take less than 7 days to remake the earth?  For an interesting story that
tries to bridge the gap between mans and machines intersecting evolution one
should find "Appleseed".  There are current 3 volumes (4th one almost
complete here in the states).  They are graphic novels (ie. comic books for
the less sophisticated readers and very much worth reading - interesting
thoughts and appeasing to the eye).  The first one is appropriately titled
"Appleseed: The Promethean Challenge - Book One".

Hey, we always can't take life SOOOOO serious (:

- Mike Almquist (squish@umd5.umd.edu or squish@hitl.washington.edu)


