helpers of the future

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helpers of the future
Topic Started: Oct 11 2010, 02:31 PM (445 Views)
Owl Streak	Oct 11 2010, 02:31 PM Post #1
Newborn Posts: 67 Group: Members Member #406 Joined: Oct 6, 2010	could we change the vocal cords of animals and in someway special way train them so that one day we could use them as helpers or they could talk our language? and heve we made intelligent robotic animals that can do jobs?



Pando	Oct 11 2010, 02:33 PM Post #2
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	First they would have to be as intelligent as humans, or else it would be unintelligible.



Kamidio	Oct 11 2010, 02:35 PM Post #3
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	Goo goo ga ga.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


Holben	Oct 11 2010, 02:37 PM Post #4
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	African grey parrots have spoken like people, constructing their own sentences and expressing their state, but only in exceptional cases.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


colddigger	Oct 11 2010, 02:39 PM Post #5
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	Their brains would have to be altered to be able to work with complex human languages and actually produce complex concrete and abstract thoughts. But certainly in their current mental states they'd be able to manage some simpler ideas and so make simple sentences and such. I'm assuming we're talking about dogs and cats thought, if we're talking about, say, gorillas then sure why not. The second question I don't understand at all.
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Toad of Spades	Oct 11 2010, 02:42 PM Post #6
Clorothod Posts: 624 Group: Members Member #114 Joined: Dec 27, 2008 Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: Street smart is just an excuse for dumb people to use the word smart to describe themselves.	If a gorilla can do sign language, they could wear a device that translates the signing into words.
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Holben	Oct 11 2010, 02:45 PM Post #7
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	We don't have a very good understanding of which brain bits and bobs are necessary for sapience though. You have the problems of precognation and reflection though. Can they prepare for possible futures and look back at specific moments of the past? These seem important.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Kamidio	Oct 11 2010, 02:48 PM Post #8
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	I had that idea way back here. Croc of Diamonds May 21 2010, 11:26 PM YES YOU!!! PRAFEL TIEM!!(misspelled on purpose) Name: Crazy Kong Age: 21 Sex: Male Sexuality: Hetero Weapons: Coconut Bombs and Wasp Poison Sniper Rifle w/ bayonet Abilities: Natural strength of a Kong Descendant of: Donkey Kong and Candy Kong Universe: Marioverse Race: Kong History: In 2060 this little kong was born in a British zoo. As a baby he loved to play with the English dictionary that was given to him by one of his keepers. Little did his keepers know, but he was learning English, and fast. As he became older, he began to learn how to mimic the lip movements of his keepers. Eventualy with the breakthrough of a translator device that made kong noises into human languages, he was lucky enough to be on the list of kongs to receive the translator. When his keepers put the device on his neck and told him what it was, he shocked the world by being the only kong that was given the device to utter words in any human languge, he said "I wish for humans to keep perfecting this device, and I want to help." And he was sent to the headquaters in London where he met the inventor, John White. He told John this, "The reason why the translator worked on me, but not on the others is that when I was a baby I had a dictionary that one of my keepers gave me. She though I had lost it, but I had hidden it, looking at the strange symbols in it. When I was five I started watching my keepers mouths, and learned lip movements. When I was given the device, it worked because I know what to say, and it sounds realistic because I know how to move my lips properly. I'd also like to teach young kongs how to read and teach them lip movements" John was so excited that he had succeeded that he accepted Crazy's request and gave him a new translator, one without a robotic voice. Crazy was overjoyed that he would get to teach an entire generation how to speak English. A decade afterward people became prejudice of kongs, and Crazy didn''t take kindly to it. He gave his position to his favorite student Gregory who was believe it or not, a common chimpanzee. Crazy left John a note reading "I can not stand those imbeciles any longer. I'll go crazy and fight those organizations to the death if I have to. I'll keep in contact with you John. Gregory can have my position until I come back." One word rang in John's head 'crazy' the next time they met John had decided to give Crazy a name, something he never had until now. "From now on, I'm calling you Crazy. The one word you hadn't used until you left that note." Crazy still fights these organizations to this day, but there is a new enemy on the horizon. Traits: Those of a kong. Attire: A tank top with torn up sweat pants.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


Ànraich	Oct 15 2010, 07:08 PM Post #9
L'évolution Spéculative est moi Posts: 9,258 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: May 27, 2008	Holbenilord Oct 11 2010, 02:37 PM African grey parrots have spoken like people, constructing their own sentences and expressing their state, but only in exceptional cases. I've saw one case in which one even made up a word ("banery") to describe the flavor of a fruit it was eating (it apparently tasted like bananas and cherries or something).
	We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself


Xenophile	Oct 15 2010, 10:00 PM Post #10
Formerly known as alienboy. Posts: 501 Group: Members Member #135 Joined: Feb 5, 2009 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Xenobiology Nationality: Martian Favorite Quote: It is possible that our brains are to complicated to be understood by something as simple as our brains	As interesting as this topic is, why is this in the habitable zone?



Pando	Oct 15 2010, 10:12 PM Post #11
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	Moved



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