Re: Watch A Thousand Micro Robots Self-Assemble Into Wild Shapes | TechCrunch
Posted by
Carl Tollander on
Aug 16, 2014; 2:22am
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I should say I'm bringing this up in the context of the sister
thread, so wit, there we might gain greater insight by considering
sentient constructs other than human, this being one of the roles of
science fiction. The less seriously proposed, perhaps the better.
On 8/15/14, 8:15 PM, Carl Tollander
wrote:
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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