http://www.noanxiety.com/psychology-articles Free articles regarding psychology, psychotherapy and mental health Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:34:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.noanxiety.com/psychology-articles/essay-motivation-the-pleasure-response-and-the-evolution-of-the-survival-instinct/178#comment-2127 Michael Lewis Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:34:40 +0000 http://www.noanxiety.com/psychology-articles/?p=178#comment-2127 Dear Dr. Robert DePaolo. Excellent essay. I share. Your very first reference "Redox Homeostasis in the Emergence of Life" (addressing very fundamental molecular phenomena) illustrates the way the Internet-millions of silicon-based deciding machines, communicating through global webs of silicon-based glass fiber, is becoming a sentient entity that is at present a powerful and important asset of Earth. The internet is organized, like the brain, and brains are enormously ancient, like those of cephalopoda's octopi. Silicon, seemingly new, is far more ancient than mere rocks shaped as tools; diatoms, corals, algae, plankton and the plant Equisetum used silicon millions of years ago though it was not able to use silicon in active decision-making. The silicon based transistor and internet are providing that decision making capability. Already autonomous silicon based aircraft, receiving their controlling signals through silicon communications equipment, are directing, with silicon based logic, silicon-guided missiles to strike human targets. Shades of the computer HAL in the movie 2001!. Of course the aircraft does not know it's guidance comes from a human being, but then human beings are fortunate only that the aircraft does not reproduce, seeking the goal of knowing its maker or its sources of information. Dear Dr. Robert DePaolo. Excellent essay. I share. Your very first reference “Redox Homeostasis in the Emergence of Life” (addressing very fundamental molecular phenomena) illustrates the way the Internet-millions of silicon-based deciding machines, communicating through global webs of silicon-based glass fiber, is becoming a sentient entity that is at present a powerful and important asset of Earth. The internet is organized, like the brain, and brains are enormously ancient, like those of cephalopoda’s octopi. Silicon, seemingly new, is far more ancient than mere rocks shaped as tools; diatoms, corals, algae, plankton and the plant Equisetum used silicon millions of years ago though it was not able to use silicon in active decision-making. The silicon based transistor and internet are providing that decision making capability. Already autonomous silicon based aircraft, receiving their controlling signals through silicon communications equipment, are directing, with silicon based logic, silicon-guided missiles to strike human targets. Shades of the computer HAL in the movie 2001!. Of course the aircraft does not know it’s guidance comes from a human being, but then human beings are fortunate only that the aircraft does not reproduce, seeking the goal of knowing its maker or its sources of information.

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