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POPSToy Robot Intended to Save Humans This narrative, crafted by Hugo award winner Tony Daniel and University of Texas performance professor Thomas Riccio, is intended to make Zeno into a character that people identify with and want to to see develop — something with the depth of a movie character or a figure from a Homerian epic. That makes Zeno into as much of a sociological experiment as it is a technical marvel or fun toy. "The idea is to create a cultural phenomenon and accelerate the use and humanization of the technology," Where story, game, reality, toys are not differentiable anymore.
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POPS"Tnnel of Love" -beautiful ! "My desire as an artist is to create compelling images of beauty and power that serve to promote our conscious evolution as human beings".Mark Henson
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POPSIntelligent Computers Put To The Test It could also raise profound questions about whether a computer has the potential to be 'conscious' - and if humans should have the 'right' to switch it off. >>> I haven't seen humans having too much problem in 'shutting off' each other. What does it say about consciousness ?
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POPSTuring test, put to test next week. "I think the reason Alan Turing set this game up was that maybe to him consciousness was not that important; it's more the appearance of it, and this test is an important aspect of appearance.' "The test will be carried out by human 'interrogators', each sitting at a computer with a split screen: one half will be operated by an unseen human, the other by a program. The interrogators will then begin separate, simultaneous text-based conversations with both of them on any subjects they choose. After five minutes they will be asked to judge which is which." "a program needs only to make 30 per cent or more of the interrogators unsure of its identity to be deemed as having passed the test, based on Turing's own criteria"
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POPS Why We Can't Imagine Death? "This position holds that our ancestors suffered the unshakable illusion that their minds were immortal, and it’s this hiccup of gross irrationality that we have unmistakably inherited from them. Individual human beings, by virtue of their evolved cognitive architecture, had trouble conceptualizing their own psychological inexistence from the start."
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POPSForeign Murderer release on British streets Is Jacqui Spliff still on duty, or has she joined the Nu Lieber Party to welcome the Prince of Darkness back to the trough? Not only have they lost all moral consciousness, but their brazen disregard of the historic position of public representative and the covenant they have with the British people leads one to think we ought to just leave on mass, and let them all fester in their own stupidity. Deport this murderer now and investigate everyone who has had any association with him. The Government have not the will to deport him because it will infringe on his families human rights. No concession has been made to the rights of Mr Phillip Lawrence, his family or the people of Gt. Britain. Labour really are cowards and worse then doggy pooh (shit to you and me).
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POPSMarxism Overview Point #1 may not be explicitly stated by the DNC, but it is embraced by many on this site...hence my reference to them as ClipMarxists, ClipMarxism, etc. If I get booted for this rational explanation, so be it.
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POPSWorld's Best Eco-Spas From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to the seaside cliffs of California, a higher consciousness is available to even the most extravagant of spagoers. Now that's what we call a happy ending.
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POPSIs It Possible To Have An 'Out-of-Body' Experience? "Death is not a specific moment," he says. "It is a process..." "... a period of time, which may last from a few seconds to an hour or more, in which medical efforts may succeed in restarting the heart and reversing the dying process. What people experience during this period provides a unique window into what we are all likely to experience during the dying process." Clip Song
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POPSBBC program Links Temporal lobe to Spituality
Now. I find this stuff fascinatin'! Well worth looking at the BBC videos! I'm not so sure about the text from LJ--kind of a dilletante, that one... Bein' an old Hippie who did a lot of psychedelic drugs (a long time ago--and I'm alive and well 'cuz I avoided Coke and other dumbass drugs) ...so the value of my "spiritual" experiences may be directly correlated with the types of "divine" chemicals i took like psylocibin, peyote, LSD and the good herb Pakalolo---or as the guy says in the last video--it may be God's way of giving us an antenna towards the Divine and doesn't make the experience any less real or important. Developing a Spiritual consciousness rather than the mundane, everyday patterns of thought is quite important, neh? I find that I can get some of the same results by meditating (if I do it with regularity and depth, losing the "I")...of course it's not as much fun without the colors and stuff but just as meaningful, if not more. But then I didn't use drugs as recreation b
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POPSSeek The Spirit How can a non-material manifestation be captured? By recording energy levels - photography should go beyond formation of colors - for crying out loud, we are living in the 21st century you know!
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POPSB.I.T.C.H. Condemns Sarah Palin
continued from article............... Fortunately, I have the gift of discerning coy sins less careful Christians — and my inattentive Savior — routinely overlook. And as founder of Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers, one sin pings my values radar louder than an incoming sortie of foul smelling demons: Narcissistic parents who irresponsibly spit out babies they have neither the interest nor time to care about. That’s the problem with people who regard birth as simply the end of a pregnancy, rather than the beginning of a life. Birth marks the start of work, not a self-congratulatory furlough. Absent through either a preoccupation with stoking a ravenous blast furnace of an ego (Mrs. Palin) or simply because they’d rather be fishing (Mr. Palin), the Palins selfishly make a shambles of their children’s lives. Drugs, sex, alcohol, vendetta’s and arrests! Honestly, it all sounds a bit like Gossip Girl, only in a pioneer setting with a wardrobe by Sears.
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POPSLucid Decapitation For thousands of years, the forceful removal of the human head has been used as a form of capital punishment.
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POPSDear Free Market Fundamentalists: SHUT THE FUCK UP! SHUT UP! YOU SUCK AND WERE WRONG AND IT'S GOING TO COST US MORE THAN WE CAN COMPREHEND! SO SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT HOW DEREGULATION IS NEXT TO GODLINESS AND FREE AND UNFETTERED MARKETS WILL SOLVE ALL OUT PROBLEMS, AND GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING BUT CAUSE PROBLEMS! SHUT THE FUCK UP!
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POPSAyoon wa Azan (A Loudmouth from the Extreme Right) From a wonderful Web site, Watching America, I found this column from Al Hayat, translated from Arabic, I believe, all about Coulter and Lieberman. Isn't it interesting how these two people are reviled even so far from home. I can kinda understand Lieberman being in their consciousness, but Coulter? Amazing!!
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POPSThe Evolving AI Ecosystem He takes his theory further, all the way in to the tubes of the internet. In collaboration with Professor Tim Berners-Lee – the co-inventor of the World Wide Web – the pair have been investigating the next generation Web. “What is emerging now is a digital ecosystem,’ says Professor Shadbolt, ‘involving lots of simple systems which connect millions of complex ones – humans!” And there begins to be a certain amount of logic and a lessening of the fear I feel for the day when I am some robots whipping boy. We see such developments already in websites such as Facebook and Flickr, and programs such as Google Earth and World of Warcraft. We are being linked together, ever so slowly by a collective consciousness.
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POPSAN ENGLISH CIGARETTE TO DIE FOR ! Cigarette addiction to kill for ? don't know what they cost in England but at $7.00 a pack ,oh yeah, that's worth shooting someone ? that makes a whole carton of sense ! Puff,puff ,cough,cough, oh yeah ,that's killer !
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POPSrapid spiritual awakening of humanity One of the prominent thought forms hovering over humanity is the thought that the end of civilization is near. You can see this in the prophecies about the year 2012. We do not see civilization ending. Events such as the energies coming in the year 2012 will open doorways into even higher states of consciousness. After 2012 we see the fear of earth changes releasing its hold on people’s thoughts and visions of the future. There will be more certainty that humanity will continue to exist, and a growing realization that solving the problems of humanity will have to come from humanity itself. Humanity will not be "saved" from its responsibility to change its living conditions through some catastrophe or outside event.
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