DaBoss Mariachi wrote: > In the future are we going to move to power sources like: > > 1> Humans replace their innards with carburettors (whatever else they have in a car engine or chainsaw engine) > Think of the advantages: just gas up and go. But then, do u want a constant stream of fumes issuing from your exhaust > 2> Will Robots move to digestive power sources? That is, will we allow them to eat food for more than cosmetic reasons? Will they actually eat for fuel? The advantage would be no need for expensive/heavy power packs etc! And you can refuel them anywhere! I would like my wearable to leech power off my body. It might help me to reduce some weight too!! Or it has a small stomach where i can feed it leaves or grass (yeah...........when we design artificial stomachs, we make sure they dont know anything about the "taste" of food or the quality. Just the fuel value ;-) ) You make two interesting (by intersting I mean, it boggles my mind ;) assumptions here, that I disagree with: 1) there is something wrong with people eating food and we need to find a better way to provide our body with energy. But I think I see what you're getting at. 2) there are only two methods of deriving energy for said bodies, combustion and digestion. > The reason i ask these questions: because you're in an asylum and got hold of a computer? ^_^ > > By using a super-massive Programmable Grid or some such device, it would be possible to download/train my logic process onto silicon. I can also download my memory onto HDD/optical DD. Am i then looking at eternal mental life but my physical life only on a silicon plane? > > If my brain is dying, then i can have an artificial brain with a digestive engine > If my body is dying i can have a natural brain and a combustive engine. > > once again, there are other sources of energy and your analogy seems rather haphazard, since silicon doesn't run on combustion, it runs on electricity and there are lots of sources of electricity. Let's just run with this analogy.. your brain is now represented in some fashion in silicon (or whatever computing electronics technology is popular at the time). You just want a steady stream of electricity that is reliable for years without maintenance.. I would say you want either an orbiting platform in space with solar power (sun never sets in space) or nuclear power. Every other source of power (especially your local power company) is too unreliable, you can't count on the wind, or generators, or hydroelectric. But I suppose they could work if you had a good battery backup system or several redundant sources of power. Personally I think space is your best bet. ;) -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty // x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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