Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Telepresence bots on the way?
Life-size telepresence robots make their appearance
Of course, one could argue that our own bodies are meat-based versions of the robots cited above. There's nothing especially daunting about the idea except for one thing: for our reality to be telepresence-derived, we'd have to exist in a state of perpetual forgetfulness of our "real" ontological status. Maybe it's worth recalling the spiritual traditions that maintain that our reality is inherently fictitious or deceptive.
Of course, one could argue that our own bodies are meat-based versions of the robots cited above. There's nothing especially daunting about the idea except for one thing: for our reality to be telepresence-derived, we'd have to exist in a state of perpetual forgetfulness of our "real" ontological status. Maybe it's worth recalling the spiritual traditions that maintain that our reality is inherently fictitious or deceptive.
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"...for our reality to be telepresence-derived, we'd have to exist in a state of perpetual forgetfulness of our "real" ontological status."
But then what would be the point?
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