Robots and the Coming Creation
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 1:43 am.
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‘Am I already in the shadow of the Coming Race? and will the creatures who are to transcend and finally supersede us be steely organisms, giving out the effluvia of the laboratory, and performing with infallible exactness more than everything that we have performed with a slovenly approximativeness and self-defeating inaccuracy?’
- George Eliot,
The Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879.
The robot creation is about to happen.
- We know how to design machines that reason
- We know how to design machines that learn
- We know how to design machines that question
and more..
Could it really be that the ultimate achievement of the Human Race will be to create Life itself?
Boldly I ask “Why Not?”
We have already reached into the Heavens and find the experience inviting. But how much higher than the spire of the Tower of Babel can we reach? The Moon is certainly high, and the other worlds of our Solar System higher still, yet at this very moment… right now as you read this… we are exploring these heights with the precursors to the Coming Race. (mars, saturn, sun, mercury, pluto, venus).
Reaching into the sky, while a fantasy of the Babylonians, has become commonplace to us. But the Act of Creation is another thing altogether.
How amazing it will be when we send our first true Creations up, away, and deep into the Heavens to travel about with God’s bacteria.
A bold and arrogant notion? YES!
And on that most glorious of days,
God Himself will ascend to become a Creator of Creators.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
