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| Nimor | Nov 25 2010, 02:04 PM Post #1 |
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I bet that most of you have seen that the way technology is going, people will start replacing lost hands or legs with robotic ones. What do you think about this? |
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| Holben | Nov 30 2010, 04:48 PM Post #121 |
Rumbo a la Victoria
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No, i mean fall apart one way or another. And machines could breed too! |
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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." | |
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| colddigger | Nov 30 2010, 04:58 PM Post #122 |
Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Machines can build others, but breed? Would that not simply make them living in a sense? Not cells of course though... Cyanobacteria seem to be going pretty good, or do you mean an individual cell? If that's the case then I suppose I must agree since they all eventually need to split, in which case although all the parts are from the original the two resulting should be viewed as new. Although... if they were to simply maintain I wonder how long a cell could go... Edited by colddigger, Nov 30 2010, 05:03 PM.
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| skwirlinator | Nov 30 2010, 05:11 PM Post #123 |
Terminator Squirrel
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I imagine if a cell were able to maintain its structure it would last as long as the food/fuel/energy it requires would last. So a cell like that could maintain indefinitely Barring, of coarse catastrophic failure from an outside source. |
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| lamna | Nov 30 2010, 06:08 PM Post #124 |
 
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Well trees already do it for millennia, while machines tend to gum up after few decades. |
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| skwirlinator | Nov 30 2010, 06:13 PM Post #125 |
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Excellent point, Hail to the trees! |
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| Ànraich | Dec 2 2010, 02:52 AM Post #126 |
L'évolution Spéculative est moi
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Surgery? Good sir, I will be sure that my body is USB compatible. I'll just plug it in and let the drivers install... Into my brains. And computer viruses wouldn't be an issue as far as your mind is concerned. Viruses aren't some malicious thing that attacks your computer, it's a program; like any other piece of software. To quote MC Frontalot, "it's not designed to destroy; that's just how it runs." It exploits the logic of a computer to accomplish tasks interfering with the normal operation of the hardware or software of said computer. The computer can't do anything about it because it's a machine, it's not aware of the data that's on it or what the program actually does. All it does is follow the instructions given to it. Your brain, on the other hand, doesn't just execute a predetermined set of instructions given to it by external stimuli. It makes decisions based on the analysis of data, which would keep computer viruses from affecting you. Maybe they can affect the computers attached to your brain, but not your brain itself. And it wouldn't make sense to make computerized systems to be attached to the brain if they allowed physical harm to come to the brain they were attached to whenever they failed. Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window, as they say in computer science. |
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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
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| Holben | Dec 2 2010, 12:02 PM Post #127 |
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You think that binary and neural impulses are directly compatible?  An individual cell will die due to electromagnetic erosion. A nanobot doesn't have such a short tolerance span. And breeding only if there's variety amongst the machines. Otherwise buildding. |
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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." | |
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| colddigger | Dec 2 2010, 12:49 PM Post #128 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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That's why the cell chills in the dark unless it feels the need to photosynthesize. USB? What are you? From 2010?? Crystals is where it's at! Having something that converts the binary into pseudoneural impulses might be required... |
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| Holben | Dec 2 2010, 12:51 PM Post #129 |
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Cells chill and erode at the same time, all this background radiation gets worse the longer you chill. |
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| colddigger | Dec 2 2010, 01:03 PM Post #130 |
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>_> Cells seem to have been chilling for what, 3 billion years? SOMEthing. Not to mention they rebuild their parts. Not that machines can't though. Although You would probably need several parts to the machine, each producing portions of the other parts or something to make up for breaking down. Unless you suggest putting the machine in a shell... like... a... vi... rus... |
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| T.Neo | Dec 2 2010, 02:15 PM Post #131 |
Translunar injection: TLI
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Parasky, first you say you want to download drivers into your brains via USB then you say you can't have brain viruses. You don't see to be able to make up your mind.  |
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| skwirlinator | Dec 2 2010, 02:54 PM Post #132 |
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Chemical transference between axons and dendrites is what happens at the synapse, right? Nanomachines rearrange atoms to make elements. Couldn't a nanomachine fire a synapse by constructing the chemicals needed to fire the synapse. Granted this would be extremely advanced science. If we could do that, with precision it might be possible to reverse the procedure and fire a nanomachine with an axon. I wonder what physiological changes such a system would create in prolonged widespread use? I wonder if dendrites and axons build up resistance to the chemicals that fire the synapse? Perhaps that is why we slow and lose memory as we age? I admit that the nanomachines would have to be very complex and lightning fast as well as widely dispersed throughout the entire nervous system. |
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| Holben | Dec 2 2010, 02:56 PM Post #133 |
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Sliver, we've done experiments and when a cell reproduces, the 'root line' eventually dies, and then the daughter cell's root line etc. due to gene erosion. Cells are not forever. |
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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." | |
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| skwirlinator | Dec 2 2010, 03:08 PM Post #134 |
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that called entropy? |
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| Holben | Dec 2 2010, 03:16 PM Post #135 |
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Entropy? No. that's disorder, this is prolonged bombardment by radiation rather than the diffusion of information. They're taking the hobbits to Isengard! |
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