Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -
Think about thinking.
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Saturday, 16 March 2019
quote [ Hindu & Buddhist texts describe Ajatasatru's automaton warriors whirling like the wind, slashing intruders with swords. In the Burmese "Lokapannatti", many "yantakara," robot makers, lived in the Western land of the "Yavanas," Greek-speakers, in "Roma-visaya," the Indian name for the Greco-Roman culture of the Mediterranean world. The Yavanas' secret technology of robots was closely guarded. The robots of Roma-visaya carried out trade & farming & captured & executed criminals. Robot makers were forbidden to leave or reveal their secrets--if they did, robotic assassins pursued & killed them. Rumors of the robots reached India, inspiring an artisan of Pataliputta, who wished to learn how to make automatons. ]
Industrial espionage in the time of assassin bots.
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damnit said @ 7:53am GMT on 17th Mar
Iām picking up really heavy Syberia vibes with this one.
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mechavolt said @ 12:08am GMT on 18th Mar
If Buddha has been paying any attention to my inner 14-year-old, then the answer had better be yes.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 1:44pm GMT on 18th Mar
Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
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Onix said @ 4:21pm GMT on 21st Mar
When you think about it, a warrior in armour can be considered a very simple mech. Maybe all these tales of mechanized wars are just about very sophisticated armoured warriors. I find it hard to believe that a primitive sort of android was able to run and kill people on its own vollition.
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Onix said @ 4:49pm GMT on 21st Mar
Unless all those stories of spaceships in ancient India are for real, of course.
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