<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">BillK</b> <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Do a Google search on henson jupiter brain<br><br>You only have 61,000 entries to fix.</blockquote><div><br>Well I only get 58,600 so we are already getting there! At this rate we should be done by tomorrow. :-;<br><br>
Actually, if you limit it to Henson "Jupiter Brain" you only get 25 and some of those, e.g. [1] are correcting the association.<br><br>Some of the other references are by people we know like Anders or Bruce Klein who could presumably be pursuaded to make corrections to the pages which have the errors.
<br><br>It is worth noting that while Keith is not the person responsible for "Jupiter Brain", he does appear to be the culprit(?) behind the "Far Edge Party" (aka "Far Side Party") if I believe Chapter 9 "Laissez le Bon Temps Rouler" in "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition".
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. Anders for example gets it wrong here:<br><a href="http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Words/j.html">http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Words/j.html</a><br>I would bet that entry is the original source of the confusion. He does however manage to correct himself in Aug of '99 here:
<br><a href="http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:sTXrp055x0QJ:lists.extropy.org/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/2078.html+Henson+%2522Jupiter+Brain%2522&hl=en">http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:sTXrp055x0QJ:lists.extropy.org/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/2078.html+Henson+%22Jupiter+Brain%22&hl=en
</a><br>As Anders points out in that note the idea of planet-sized brains may have originated with Stapledon.<br></div><br></div><br>