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Yeah, I could definitely make 3D models, and I think javascript (or java) algorithms can be used to animate them with different input devices, such as the Kinect as in this video: Expressing facial emotions is also under way, to create a more enriched experience. I definitely do want to have a...

I'm not sure that I could *help* anytime in the near future >.< since I don't know enough about C++ to code anything but hello world, but I will be getting an Oculus Rift too. By "instead of Skype" do you mean chatting via a virtual conference utilizing avatars? ^^

I think the paradox Base Groove observed in the OP was due to you describing a desire for a "certain kind" of company, who share a particular "perspective on the world" and with whom you could exist in harmony with. Yet you mention lack of standards on others as being a quality of these kin, as...

Mhm, though sometimes I wonder if the creation of A.I. won't also follow the same parameters as the evolution of Gaia followed -- due to the principles of Gaia's operation being formed directly from the laws of physics/nature. In other words, if A.I. are to evolve, they'd be constrained to the...

I'm inclined to agree with this. Or at least think it's thinking in the right direction. While we may be able to eliminate the impetus for the majority of our (then obsolete) motives, it leaves to question what sort of 'desires' a post-human will have. It makes as much sense to say we'll...

Do you mean... "And who we become beyond DNA will supplant Gaia (the organic). i.e. Machines with the spark or innate intelligence... (i.e. - AI) Do beckon as the up-coming race." * - blue words have been added for clarity(?) I'm trying to make sense of your post, ...did I come close?

~I come out of that voice; i(t) falls asleep~ And I shrink back again to an individual... And I feel lonely to lose my cosmic voice, my transcendence. And I feel lament for what I am, how frail and transient and small. And I wish I could never lose sight of that voice. So I decide to follow it...

And suddenly i(t) awakes... I(t) look at its fingers. I(t) sees them again. I(t) scrunches them into its palm, as i(t) has done for the past several million years. ...I am gaia. So I have been reincarnated again... I have not died for aeons. I only switch bodies endlessly. ...Remanifest. It's...

It is (almost) here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B_-_vi58ts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHGRfeEuXLU

I find this such a curious labyrinth. I haven't come across a theory that adequately captures the nature of sexuality. There are so many factors involved - for a while I used the following chart as a rough, incomplete guide of some of the key variables. I dunno if I'd use it anymore though. As...

Yes.. ..its curious how things like Superman and Batman are concepts. In fact, what you're talking about is really a concept, more specifically a meme. Because a meme is something that transcends a single entity and carries a sort of metaphorical independence from anyone in particular, yet...

This is quite an interesting thread to puzzle over.

Humm.. suppose that we made an RP thread (the kind where characters can be controlled by all participants) about a fictional character who existed in FictionWorld, but whose whole motive is wanting to cross over into the RealWorld and do it by any means. He's also aware of every time he's being...

I think I see your view much more clearly now. ^^ If I'm not mistaken you're viewing amor fati as a sort of practical attitude to one's lifestyle? ...as an attitude of emotional disposition and response to situations, and less so a rationally deduced or necessary stance. Indeed, we start running...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcqc8XpX8Xc

So like, a dissipation of the impulse naturally via conscientiousness? So that it ceases to even be an impulse to need to deny? (: I think this is the fight against the neocortex and lower parts of the brain, isn't it. The neocortex can override those impulses and (presumably) if done long...

I like this topic. ^^ There's a curious paradox in this, though, I find. Because what would one do when, upon their objective observations of everything, they come across their own body's reactions? If after all, they are also an object in the universe and a system that operates via its own...

I eventually realized the importance of donating to Wikipedia - not so much the particular company itself, but the concept/niche it fills in humanity: free unbought knowledge. The fact that it is funded by donations is precisely why it is wonderful -- corporate interests can't censor...

Even if that were the case, I don't see how its unfavorable to have the opportunity to live out thousands of lifespans, rather than just one, on the premise that "you'll eventually run out of things to do anyway". It's like saying, might as well die today because you're going to die in the...

Supposing that's at least 100,000,000,000 years away, perhaps by that time a being who turns immortal within our millenia would find a way to either create a new universe to live in, or prevent the entropy of this one.

Wins thread ^ :p

But kitties do. >.< Coggie, you wouldn't take down all the innocent kitties along with the humans, would you? O.O :icon_tinykitball: :icon_tinykitball: :icon_tinykitball: :icon_tinykitball: [/spoiler]

Yes. I do see our moon becoming something like that instead. (: The space elevator idea is really genius though, and will speed things up dramatically too. I think the order of operations to get to the 3 stages described in the OP (in other words our progress from now to 2150 A.D.) would be...

Mmm, so you suggest we try terraforming techniques on the moon and our mountains before trying it on mars? I agree with the mountains, but the moon is outright dead. I think it'd actually be easier to terraform mars than our moon. Mars has more natural resources even as it is now. - The moon...

What if we approached Mars Terraforming like this... First, the issues: There isn't enough atmosphere on Mars, it would need to come from somewhere else. The core may need to be melted, giving Mars a magnetic field to protect from radiation. Water would need to be imported, as the...