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I suspect that being would get insufferably bored.
by SantalBlush 7y ago
I suspect that being would get insufferably bored.
- vageli 7y agoYou are thinking too small.
- maxxxxx 7y agoNot more or less than you within the constraints you live in.
- arethuza 7y ago"I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side. We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too." Although, based on the novels I suspect the jump from a bee to human level intelligence is probably rather small compared to that from a human to a Mind.
- sp332 7y agoSo... it would get insufferably bored, then.
- bitwize 7y agoIt would probably think up a way to strap boosters onto itself and cruise the galaxy. Beats hanging around here.
- andai 7y agoIn the past week I've taken a better look at the work of John C. Lilly, who actually writes on the subject: the earth becoming encased in machine intelligence, which eventually exits the solar system, in search of its own kind. He's not as far as I know a fiction author, but merely recorded his floating tank visions.
- andai 7y agoHow do I attach rockets to my brain?
- maxxxxx 7y agoIn the book 2001 they don’t need rockets anymore but travel directly through space. Rockets are primitive ....
- Dylan16807 7y agoWhat are you asking, exactly? If you mean "you never said I had hands, gotcha", then yes you need to get hands first. If you're talking about the physical task, I don't understand how that could be a problem. If you can move your body into a rocket, do that. If you can't, put a big dome over top, down to bedrock, and attach the rockets to the bedrock.
- andai 7y agoI should have been more precise, because even I don't understand what I meant anymore, & now can't even delete it.