[ExI] Three Way Chess

[John Grigg]

Imagine *SEVEN* players:
 1. a cybernetically enhanced human
 2. a genetically enhanced human
 3. a fully conscious android
 4. The Jedi master, Yoda
 5. a Mentat from Dune
 6. Mike Ditka!
 7. Mr. Spock

Who would win???

John  ; )


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:15 AM, sam micheal <micheals at msu.edu> wrote:
> http://www.msu.edu/~micheal/
>
> Okay, now you know the game.. Let's tell a story.
>
> Imagine three players:
>  1. a cybernetically enhanced human
>  2. a genetically enhanced human
>  3. a fully conscious android
>
> Assign them colors: Blue, Red, and Pink respectively.
>
> As you can see from the gameboard and rules, two may gang up on one, but..
> If they do that, there's a price - they must fight it out at the end and..
> The one who actually captures the other's king gets control of his pieces.
> So, is there really a motivation for gang-warfare?
>
> This essay is deep in many respects. Consider it fully. There are many
> lessons to be learned from it.
>
> Who will win? My prediction is #1: the cyborg because only he has 'the best
> of both worlds' (he's the only true hybrid). True, the psychic could use PK
> or ESP to win the game, but that's cheating. If they play fair, I believe
> the cyborg would win.
>
> Again, there are many lessons in this scenario. The first being: why the
> hell do we have to play adversarial roles in our world??? (This is very
> common between 'craft and management' in large corporations.)
>
> The world is our chessboard. Politicians are the gamepieces. But they
> posture and threat for resources. For what? An ideology??? Because they have
> 'the guns'???
>
> It is wrong.
>
> tbc off-forum, sam
>
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