Posted on 11/24/2007 10:24:46 AM PST by Fennie
In Russia as well in the West, research has been under way for for many years in biological syntheses-that is, artificial life forms; and according to high intelligence, a stunning break-through as a "providential discovery", something they learned almost by accident. They discovered the key to creating what are known as "organic robotoids". An organic robotoid is an artificial robot-like creature; it looks and acts exactly like a human being and yet it is not human. A robotoid is alive in the biological sense but it is an artificial life form. Robotoids respond to conventional routine medical tests in the same way as humans do; they eat, they drink, they breathe, they bleed if cut; and they can be killed. Robotoids can also think, but they think only in the sense that a computer thinks. Like any other computer, the brain of a robotoid has to be programmed for each assignment it is given; but unlike many electronic computers, the biological computer brain of a robotoid possesses an enormous memory. As a result, robotoids can be programmed to communicate and think in such complex patterns that they act human...
I am completely out of tin foil at this time.
Too late, CNN has been there done that.
What a coincidink. I was just putting The Cloning of Man by David Rorvik away (re arranging the bookcase... ethics section). LOL
Though really on the robotic side... I wonder about Q2:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0331_060331_robot_video.html
They’re already here. Who—or more accurately, what—do you suppose has been clicking the ‘vote Ron Paul’ button at all those polling websites?
probably also explains the Putin 80% approval rating.
How soon before these robotoids start replacing actors in movies?
Not that we could tell the difference, but ...
Androids have been around for decades, centuries. Eventually they run amok and are destroyed barely in time.
Artifical Human.
Homunculus of Alchemy
The term appears to have been first used by the alchemist Paracelsus. He once claimed that he had created a false human being that he referred to as the homunculus. The creature was to have stood no more than 12 inches (300 mm) tall, and did the work usually associated with a golem. However, after a short time, the homunculus turned on its creator and ran away. The recipe consisted of a bag of bones, semen, skin fragments and hair from any animal, of which the chimeric homunculus would be a hybrid. This was to be laid in the ground surrounded by horse manure for forty days, at which point the embryo would form.
Homunculi of Fullmetal Alchemist
In the fictional world of the Fullmetal Alchemist series, Homunculi are artificial humans created through alchemy. They serve as the principal villains in the series. There are seven Homunculi in all. Each is named after, and usually exhibits a personality or abilities aligned to, one of the seven deadly sins, although their characteristics and identities vary somewhat between the anime and manga series.
In the anime, Homunculi are created through a failed human transmutation, the ultimate taboo of alchemy. The components required are the ingredients that make up the person on the elemental level, and a vast knowledge of alchemic lore.
I believe I need aluminum siding for this one, tinfoil just isn't going to handle it.
Yeah, I can see how Stalin would have approved of this, in the bad old days of the Soviet Union.
Myself, I’m still predicting that the first successful human cloning experiment will be done on a Mexican. Why? It takes Juan to know Juan . . .
[sigh]
I guess I should be glad it wasn’t a Manuel labor joke.
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