X-Message-Number: 18110 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:55:50 -0800 (PST) From: Scott Badger <> Subject: Re: HAL?...are you there HAL? Wm Henderson prognosticates: [start of excerpt] The scientists of the day do not even attempt to look at the data because they know it is impossibly far out of their comprehension: VAL has, in one month done what it would take the billion researches 100 years of catch up schooling even to begin to understand the mathematics behind the research. Result, we must just accept the products of our marvellous VAL. Result, we are totally dependent on our super intelligent beast. We have created something that has so surpassed human intelligence and speed that it puts VAL thousands of years ahead of us. We are like peasant farmers trying to work out how a television works. Of course our super advanced VAL has built for us a superb defence system, to ward of the possibility of invading aliens or meteorites, the technology of which non of us mere humans can even begin to understand. [end of excerpt] Why wouldn't we just ask VAL do figure out how we can become as intelligent as it is before it becomes self aware? Scott Badger __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18110