It's like...so...deep... (Score 1)

okay, so before I start, I will admit that no one thinks that Arthur C Clarke is a bigger crackpot then me. I remember watching his stupid TV show along time ago. Everything that happened "challenged man" or "eradicated a concept of nature." The fact of the matter is, Arthur C Clarke is a wannabe Isaac Asimov / Carl Sagan figure. But he does have a decent point. I think what he is getting at is...if a machine one day can think "I", and we can download that thought on to say an Iomega ZIP disk (the official removable media of the robot existentialist), and we look at the thought on a computer and play with it, or buy it at Software etc, what exactly does that say about the quality/purity of our own thoughts? i have no idea, myself. but when this happens, I hope to god (even though this suggests there probably isn't one) that humanity doesn't drone on like a bunch of consumers. I think that what clark was getting at with the whole education thing, is that in order to momentarily push back the veil of politics, religion, consumerism, and examine the situation as it really is we'll all need to be pretty damn smart. If the opposite is the case, we'll have every ozark preacher, politician, and "family value" housewife yelling out in protest. Of course, we'll all know that they're all just being stupid, and not thinking for themselves, but a bunch of nerdy folk like us sitting at a computer screen, can't do much to stop an angry torch weilding mob from smashing the first AI to bits. peace out.