Psychoengineering was Re: [extropy-chat] The existential threat ofinternational law

spike spike66 at comcast.net
Sat Dec 24 15:53:05 UTC 2005


> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki
...
> 
> First of all, even today, six hundred million years after the first
> metazoan started cutting a swath through bacterial mats, bacteria are
> still the most prevalent form of life on earth, both in terms of sheer
> numbers and even in terms of overall biomass. Maybe the borganism will
> not eat us all - maybe we will be able to adapt, to live in the scum
> ponds far away from the glistening palaces of power built by the borg.
> Maybe we will be even able to live symbiotically with borgans, like
> intestinal bacteria live in us. More bacteria than humans have visited
> the Moon, by something like ten orders of magnitude (give or take a
> few) - and they didn't even have to pay for the ticket. Maybe human
> symbionts of borgans will visit and inhabit places we alone could
> never reach... Rafal


Rafal!  This is great, thanks.  A spin on AI and borg I had
never seen or thought of.  May I use your meme in a fiction
work I have been working?

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