“Safety
first!”
Evel
Knievel*
Well on Friday
I've got both my writing and nerdy club then my birthday party on
Saturday the coming weekend. That means tomorrow I'm probably going
to want to grind out three stories to make sure I have something that
day then something for those two days for you all.
Tumbling
Rumbling Numbers
I am Dr.
Gearson, brilliant robot scientist. I'm quite old. Gone through many
upgrades with my memories transplanted through the many versions of
the robot “brains” made throughout time. (Pretty much computers
folks but with chips arranged in a liquid mesh.) Over and over again
I get asked at public speaking events by people who don't know
anything about human vs robot brain science to sum it all up
“simply”. I'm the expert in the field so it must be easy for me
right? Sum up simply how comparable to human consciousness arose from
computer chips in liquid. So yeah, toss away my planned speech to sum
it up for the person who doesn't get it. Great.
Finally I got
mad enough to give a blunt answer to the question of explaining
“simply” the relation of human vs robot brains.
“Alright.”
I said to the audience member that asked the question at this
particular event “The answer to your question is this: The human
brain is amazing network of biological components so elegant and
dynamic in form that its mere existence has given rise to the concept
of concepts so divine as a soul. While a robot brain is an impressive
mess of numbers tumbling and rumbling through computer chips inside
of a liquid mesh all invented by a group of brilliant, devoted and
somewhat crazy scientists to make a sort of entity that can only
resemble in form but never really be the consciousness that the human
brain creates.”
“Oh, okay.”
The audience member responded.
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