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>From: jcr@milton.u.washington.edu (Fend Unit)
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Subject: Quality Humans & Cognizant Computers Both Must (Generally) Defend Themselves
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Date: 3 Dec 91 09:49:52 GMT
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  I see man's evolution as being the result of mating competition.
  The one that could dominate over the others mated. 
  This caused an evolution of more and more dominate offspring 
  until... man.  Man thus became the best at NOT BEING EATEN.
  Man thus had quality over quantity.  Plankton are still the
  best at eating (photosynthesis) and quantity.
  
  One must be self aware to not be eaten, I think humans
  will recognize computers as being conscious when they start
  defending themselves, like the movie "Terminator".  If
  computers can one day defend themselves against humans
  then they may take us over.
  
  It's interesting to note that life can be defined as something
  that has to work at staying alive. There are 2 ways to do
  that 1) quantity via eating and 2) quality via not being eaten,
  and humans are evolution's best stab at #2, but evolution's first
  and best at #1, plankton, will probably live billions of years
  after humans are all gone.
  
  Of course the rigors of competition would require any 
  dominate males to have won under varied temperature and 
  resource conditions, thus making their "quality" offspring 
  something of a generalist.


