Three Tales, Act 3 - Dolly: Human Body Machine

We and all
We– We and all other animals
We and all
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By our genes
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When Marvin Minsky said, "The mind is a meat machine," people freaked!
A monkey is a machine that preserves genes on trees
The script for human life is three billion letters
It doesn't seem so frightening anymore
A fish is a machine that preserves genes in the water
Preparing for a new kind of
Kind of cyborg consciousness
They're all about preserving the code, preserving DNA
We've always thought about brains in terms of our latest technology
DNA is a molecule that carries coded
Information, exactly like a computer tape
At one point our brains were steam engines
What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire
When I was a kid there were telephone switching networks
Not warm breath, not a spark of life
Then they became digital computers
If you want to understand life
Then massively parallel digital computers
–Think about information technology
Probably out there now your kid's books would
Say that our brain is the World Wide Web
I don't think there's anything that we are that is in
Principle deeply different from what computers are
We probably haven't got it right yet
Alan Turing
Alan Turing came up with this idea that if you talked to
A computer over instant messaging and you couldn't tell
The difference whether it was a computer answering you or
A person answering you, then a computer must be intelligent
That leaves out a whole lot of stuff that we do with one another
We look each other in the eye
We smile at each other
We nod at each other
I might be fooled
I might be fooled by a good silk flower
It doesn't mean that it's a real flower
It may just mean that I don't know enough about flowers
We and all other animals are machines created by our genes
I have no sense of guilt pulling the plug on any machine
It's a machine or not a machine
The real question would be are you
Responsible or not responsible for anything?
Not what the computer does, but what the computer does to us
The human body is extremely limited
I would love to be able to upgrade myself