Would a future race of computers be the result of our Intelligent Design? Or would it plausibly been seen as confoundlingly serendipitous, happy accident upon happy accident, as many discoveries have been ?
Nanorobot constructed bodies and minds running on light and lasers and memory and capable of making modifications to themselves to produce "better" ones?
What we know is very very recent, as is our own actual being on this planet: when indeed did we become "human"? We have emotions and "morals" most by denying such attributes to any other living thing and that's just wrong (eg, the squid takes care of her young). We are but beings that are capable of getting to what we are, but take todays mind and body and remove all accumlated knowledge and we would be, literally, starting again: language? tools? clothings? society?
What would robots living in an environment that had become totally hostile to carbon based life forms find to be a resonable progression? Anybody NOT find snippets of totally useless code in old programs? Here, we talk of a few decades. What would machine readable code for a machine whose instruction set hasn't been seen for 100K years be thought to be?
That all being said, saying "Intelligent Design" and shuttering the labs and burnings the scientists doesn't seem very noble.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
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