Re: Watch A Thousand Micro Robots Self-Assemble Into Wild Shapes | TechCrunch
Posted by
Carl Tollander on
Aug 16, 2014; 2:15am
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Friday night musing.
Groot is very interesting, in the same sense that Star Trek
communicators were generators, in some sense, of cell flip phones.
For those of you who don't go to movies, Groot is a character in a
recent sci-fi movie "Guardians of the Galaxy" that is mostly fun yet
mostly silly. However, as with many fun/silly things, occasionally
there's some as-yet-unexplored-pop-culture-thing that may achieve
some traction. Groot is a distributed consciousness walking tree.
He only says one thing, "I am Groot", yet he is able to have
conversations with those around him and appears to have a self and
some considerable command of his physiology even though there is no
apparent "center". Audiences seem to relate to the concept of such
a creature readily. What would the consciousness of such a being be
like? Who would we have to become to build one?
C.
On 8/15/14, 12:07 PM, Gillian Densmore
wrote:
I used to follow Nano-tech news. IIRC LANAL and UC
Berkley earlier this year was working on something similler in
wich nanites were able coordinate somehow. I wonder if there
using similar technology.
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