Weblogsky: Industrial Strength WeblogBlogging like crazy since last century!1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1hourly1http://feeds.feedburner.com/Weblogsky?format=skin30.216108-97.858285http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.Mac Tonniesjonl2009-11-08T07:42:39-08:00http://weblogsky.com/2009/11/08/mac-tonnies-2/Mac Tonnies would definitely have been part of FringeWare. Check out his bio (though I would disagree with the second sentence).
Consciousness is a potential technology; we are exquisite machines, nothing less than sentient patterns.
As such, there’s no convincing technical reason we can’t eventually
upload ourselves into matrices of our design and choosing. It’s likely
the phenomenon we [...]<p>Mac Tonnies would definitely have been part of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FringeWare_Review">FringeWare</a>. Check out his <a href="http://www.mactonnies.com/bio.html">bio</a> (though <a href="http://weblogsky.com/2007/11/consciousness_in_a_box.html">I would disagree</a> with the second sentence).<br />
<blockquote>Consciousness is a potential technology; we are exquisite machines, nothing less than <a href="http://www.mactonnies.com/sentience.html">sentient patterns</a>.<br />
As such, there’s no convincing technical reason we can’t eventually<br />
upload ourselves into matrices of our design and choosing. It’s likely<br />
the phenomenon we casually call “intelligence” will cease to be<br />
strictly biological as we begin to merge with our machines more<br />
meaningfully and intimately. (Philip K. Dick once wrote that “living<br />
and nonliving things are exchanging properties.” I suspect that in a<br />
few hundred years, barring disaster, separating the animate from the<br />
inanimate will probably be an exercise in futility.) Ultimately, we<br />
have two options: self-mutate by venturing off-planet in minds and<br />
bodies of our own design, or succumb to extinction.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.dailygrail.com/news/vale-mac-tonnies">Mac Tonnies died </a>last month. We’ve lost one uniquely weird and compelling fringe researcher.</p>
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