Thursday, April 03, 2003

"Roger Penrose's "Shadows of the Mind" contain a future dialog between a human identified as "Albert Imperator" and an advanced robot, the "Mathematically Justified Cybersystem," allegedly Albert's creation... The dialog ends melodramatically as the robot, apparently unhinged by this revelation, claims to be a messenger of god, and the human shuts it down with a secret control... Severe incongruities in the dialog's logic and characterization suggest the following continuation..."

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