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Originally posted by masqua
Would it be possible to have a civil conversation on this topic without the insensitive comments?
Play nice.
reply to post by Gorman91
I'm actually interested in your opinion of something. It's from a video game. Basically there are these creatures called the Geth. Geth are computer programs. One Geth is as smart as a common computer program. But hundreds of them on a piece of hardware work together to generate intelligence. They are basically virtual brain cells that behave exactly the same way. By the time around 1,000 are running on one piece of hardware, the hardware has the capacity to think like a sentient being. It is, for all intensive purposes, a sentient being. However, it is not once consciousness. It is not one person. Each Geth is an individual working together to create a communal intelligence on a built piece of hardware. Geth hardware have quantum entanglement contacts to hubs. If the hardware ever "dies", The geth programs simply use the device to upload back to their hubs and not die. They cannot die. They are literally physical souls. So how would your karmatic system work for them? They can never die. They can only exist. If a program is lost, it is not a person. It is replaced, copied, or made anew. Programs can change their code, evolve, and develop. But alone they are no different than a brain cell. Only when they work together do they become as intelligence and conscious as a human or beyond. How does it work? They have removed themselves from your so-called cycle of birth and death. Your system is irrelevant to them. Have a listen from directly in the game. I really want your opinion of how to make your system work for them For all intensive purposes, if I downloaded my own consciousness into the same, I would be removed from your cycle:
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
reply to post by artistpoet
So your a alien in a human body huh...Are you able to leave your body anytime you want or are you trapped by the programing and rules of this world?. Is this world real for you is what I am asking, or just one more reality?.
What do you think is the point of this world in general?
Why do you think you got stuck here?
Were you ever a reptilian in alien form? And if so are they still pissed about that whole whipping out of your embryonic/species that took place 65 million years ago? I'm just asking because I think they still hold a grudge. Which is understandable.
What do you think this earth should be like to make it better, or are we going to be fine if we go forward as is?
And since you seem like an artistic type, what does the pic of the angel sleeping on the planet represent?
The Geth do not complicate their programs. They record experiences and those experiences are shared by all Geth. The programs evolve to optimize, not get smarter. Those are two different terms. You can be smart and not optimized.
Their ultimate goal is to become a single minded entity without any biological essence. They want to be as far away from biological life as possible.
There is no ring around the rosy. There is a vector. Mankind increasingly getting more technological and their technology seeking ways to go past what technology can do. Even the reapers in the game are th essence of liberation form biological restraints.
They are like a single brain cell alone. It is repeated many times that they are a "shattered mind" and a "communal consciousness". Alone they are like a cell. They merely take input and spit out output. They cannot do anything else. Together they network and optimize that until they gain consciousness,
They have no connection to what was described in that karma thing. For them, that simply does not matter. They can never die, unless blocked from uploading. And if they are blocked from uploading, the dead hardware stores them like a turned off computer. But their experiences are always uploaded, and if loss, they are merely copied over and redone. They are not bound by any sort of cycle. As it is said, their gods abandoned them, they make their own future.
And no, their creators were not wiped out. Their creators went on a fleet and flew around, abandoning their homes.
All and all there is no way for your karma system to work on them. Thus, if I were to upload myself as a very complicated Geth program, I too would be liberated from this system. My death would be impossible. My ending undefined. I would be liberated from your cycle.
Yes but a single brain cell alone does not think in humans, and it only exist by the very fact that there are other cells with which it sends electronic impulses to, for it there is no outside world, it can not interact with the outside its about as mechanical in nature as a bolt in a car. So a single geth in a shattered mind of a communal consciousness is not a cell, because it can upload in to the whole as its own experience of the world around it...a brain cell can not do that it simply is receiving a signal or sending a signal to the outside world. A yes or a no, a 0 or a 1..... But it can not upgrade or change its programing its just a simple organism, the whole is its mind/brain. The human brain is defined by the whole, a cell does not exist its just there, only when the whole wants to see whats there, does it see a cell of itself...but a geth I don't see how that would be possible and still remain a singularity a cell, even with strict programing they are still aware that they are at the very least, part of a whole...they are much more then a cell in your brain. A cell in your brain does not know it exists as a cell or as a whole, it just reacts to the signals around it. A geth is aware that it exists as part of a greater consciousness.
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
reply to post by artistpoet
Interesting It looked like the angel of grief...or that some angel just fell asleep on the planet. Well some of my questions have been answered by your other posts...and that poem speaks volumes about you. Seems that like Tolkien you regret the advent of technology, and the machine like system it has become now...... Peace out.
I do not regret the advent of technology - there is nothing wrong with technology. The way we choose to use technology is what is important ie for self and power or to benefit all. One point however is that I feel we should not lose our ability to be self reliant without the aid modern technology.
Actually the Brain cells do act aware that they are part of a whole. That is why they share information. A single Geth is not aware of anything. It is like a calculator. it cannot do anything more. Only when interacting with other Geth does it gain awareness, and in time, consciousness. A brain cell is aware that there are other brain cells. In fact, we have managed to hotwire rat brain cells to a robot to make the robot interact with its surroundings. A true android of sorts. The brain cells were aware of themselves, and aware of the input, and adapted. They became the proper consciousness that the robot needed. A single Geth is not aware. It is in fact less than a brain cell, but it behaves the same way. And in enough numbers, they become aware of such higher thoughts like the self and what we fell and know.
In this reality there are many ways to break free of the cycle. One way, for example. is inverting a black hole so that it is hollow and living within it. This cannot expand like the universe. The energy you bring with you inside it stays in it. In fact, the temporal effect pauses time so that you can never be affected by the physical universe .Placing a self aware robot in a vacuum inside a hollow black hole would create an immortal being, unaffected by reality and cut off from the universe. There are many other ways. Many other methods. This cycle which supposedly exists is nothing more than weak at best. Only those who accept that they are bound by it, if it even exists, will be bound by it. I do not accept that I am bound by it.
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
reply to post by artistpoet
I do not regret the advent of technology - there is nothing wrong with technology. The way we choose to use technology is what is important ie for self and power or to benefit all. One point however is that I feel we should not lose our ability to be self reliant without the aid modern technology.
Ya there is absolutely no point to technology other then entertainment if it cant be used for self reliance...So in a way it does entrap biological entities like humans...so I guess we got to learn to use it in conjunction with individual self reliance.
Originally posted by OrionHunterX
OK, but why isn't this thread in the Hoax Forum? This is the umpteenth thread written by a so called know-all alien!! Ask me questions, they say. And I shall answer. Geeez! WTF is going on? Or what the heck are so many aliens doing on ATS? This thread is a joke! This guy is hankering for those much vaunted stars and flags. I ain't giving him any. Because this thread sucks and lowers the credibility of ATS. Period!
edit on 18-9-2010 by OrionHunterX because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Rizaun
Originally posted by OrionHunterX
OK, but why isn't this thread in the Hoax Forum? This is the umpteenth thread written by a so called know-all alien!! Ask me questions, they say. And I shall answer. Geeez! WTF is going on? Or what the heck are so many aliens doing on ATS? This thread is a joke! This guy is hankering for those much vaunted stars and flags. I ain't giving him any. Because this thread sucks and lowers the credibility of ATS. Period!
edit on 18-9-2010 by OrionHunterX because: (no reason given)
And not just that, we got angels, demons, vampires, werewolves, hybrids, prophets and i think some guy posted that he was god. It's time to let go of these childish fantasies and move on. I agree that this should go on the hoax forum, or maybe a new forum for stuff like this called "The Meth Room".
An example being a friend of mine's Great Gradndfather (William Astbury) who was an early pioneer in the discovery DNA. He would be appalled to know that his discoverys are used to manipulate nature - he mereley wished to understand this natural phenomena. Coal Oil and Gas are the products of the Earth working upon itself over millions of years. We never stop and think what their true purpose may be. We tend to look at things as to how we might use them rather than their true purposes. We create disharmony when we do this. In truth I believe we can have it all and more if we use it with care rather than how it might profit and empower us.
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
reply to post by artistpoet
An example being a friend of mine's Great Gradndfather (William Astbury) who was an early pioneer in the discovery DNA. He would be appalled to know that his discoverys are used to manipulate nature - he mereley wished to understand this natural phenomena. Coal Oil and Gas are the products of the Earth working upon itself over millions of years. We never stop and think what their true purpose may be. We tend to look at things as to how we might use them rather than their true purposes. We create disharmony when we do this. In truth I believe we can have it all and more if we use it with care rather than how it might profit and empower us.
We are dreamers, we only want to move forward to our dreams...What was started in ignorance and in a idealistic way will always reach a point were it has to face itself, in a world not of itself...In a way we only progress through ignorance, because when we dream an ideal dream we are in a state of bliss, we see something we go for that something, sometimes not stopping to think what that something might entail...Ignorance is bliss and happy thought...only when the scope of what is, dawns on us, and sometimes forcefully do we realize we need to deny ignorance...so as to reach a higher state of ignorance, that we would call knowledge..... Who really wants to see all and know all...only those who are dreaming..... Ah but what do the wise say about this thing called knowledge? That its all a dream.