Goddess of Chaos
Nixe Nox
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she can kiss my ass :x
LAGWAGON-Kids Don't Like To Share
And now you're searching for that new messiah
It's your greatest passion, to set'em up and knock'em down
Put them on a pedestal idolatry, wear the ring you're married
It's all yours to their envy, because you hold a higher key of senses
And they are drawn like magnets, to a genius, it's confirmed
[chorus]
Set'em up and knock'em down, tour taste is so accountable
This is no great loss, and sharing never was a choice
It's burning on your cross, it gives you credit and a voice
Here to relay tour beautiful ideals vicaruiously through them
And when he died too many were sympathetic, and they are all pathetic
So you dethrone your king, without listening, without ever listening
And Jesus Christ is realized, as he burns on your cross
But this is no great loss, another one will come
The wait is short the search is brief, you find another faith,
another clark kent, another superman, flashing in the pan
[repeat chorus]
And now you are searching for that new messiah
It's your greatest passion, it's the latest fashion
And now you're searching for that new messiah
It's your greatest passion, to set'em up and knock'em down
Put them on a pedestal idolatry, wear the ring you're married
It's all yours to their envy, because you hold a higher key of senses
And they are drawn like magnets, to a genius, it's confirmed
[chorus]
Set'em up and knock'em down, tour taste is so accountable
This is no great loss, and sharing never was a choice
It's burning on your cross, it gives you credit and a voice
Here to relay tour beautiful ideals vicaruiously through them
And when he died too many were sympathetic, and they are all pathetic
So you dethrone your king, without listening, without ever listening
And Jesus Christ is realized, as he burns on your cross
But this is no great loss, another one will come
The wait is short the search is brief, you find another faith,
another clark kent, another superman, flashing in the pan
[repeat chorus]
And now you are searching for that new messiah
It's your greatest passion, it's the latest fashion
Narcotic Thrust - I like it
I hate the treadmill everyday
I hate the mundane things they say
the boredom sets in 9 to 5
at night that's when i come alive
I long to be connected
I long to be affected
the bright lights beckon me
beckon me to you
[Chorus]
I like it when we go to extremes
I like it when you enter my dreams
I like it when i feel your touch
I like it.. I like it so much
I like it when we're one on one
I like it when we come undone
I like it when we go to extremes
you let me, let me live my dreams
There must be more to life than this
this life i surely will not miss
to spend my time waiting in line
in search for something the grand design
I long to be connected
I long to be affected
the bright lights beckon me
beckon me to you
[Repeat Chorus]
oh oh oh
I long to be connected
I long to be affected
the bright lights beckon me
beckon me to you
[Repeat Chorus]
I like it so much
oh oh oh
I like it so much
oh oh oh
I like it so much
I like it, I like it so much
so much so much
I like it so much
Byz - Do You wanna fuck
[Chorus] :
Do you wanna fuck?
Yes I wanna do
I wanna put my dick in you
I wanna make you scream my name
It is a game, we both know
Do you wanna fuck?
Yes I wanna do
do some nasty things with you
I will make you moan
And it's more like porn
And you know I don't stop
[Vers 1] :
I can't control it , I'm gon' lose it , I lose it now
My dick is ready
I must juice it
Hold it steady, I am shakin' like a motha'fucker every time I'm with you
And I know that it is mutual, Coz' I can see it in you.. That you want me
You wanna get in my pants
You wanna rip my clothes of and touch my body with your hands
Our plans for fields, here's a chance for real,
give me a sign let me know dirty girl how you feel
Such a feel to the fullest, shootin' sperms in bullets
I wanna grab your jeans now and pull it
Down on the ground n' see that sexy ass
Those panties girl I know that our sex will last (a long time)
Be around, for a couple hours
On the table, in the bed, on the floor, in the showers
Watch the water round down your backside (ssss)
Spank that ass, put it in, let's go for a hell of a ride
And then she ask me
[Chorus]
[Vers 2] :
We have kissin' , tongue kissin'
Nothings missin'
I touch your pussy
You are moaning n' I wishin'
That I rip your panties off on the bed, in the room
That I'm acting real though and fill my head with your perfume
(Boom Flav) Girl tell me how, you manage to make me feel so horny and hard now
Allow me to satisfy you and your fantasy
Is it anything that you want nice if you'll Imagine me
What you want ? How you want it ? What to like?
I would take you to heaven in our bed room fight
Is it a first class flight, we taking off to night
And we ain't landing until we see that sunshine light
It's aight if you want me to slow me down (What the fuck? )
But I wanna beat that pussy up and down and all around
Make them sounds
That will disturb my neighboors
But fuck that shit they'll know Byz the pussy savior
And then she ask me
[Chorus]
I know that you want it girl
I know that you like it girl
I know that you need it girl
I know you love it girl
x2
[Chorus]
x2
I hate the treadmill everyday
I hate the mundane things they say
the boredom sets in 9 to 5
at night that's when i come alive
I long to be connected
I long to be affected
the bright lights beckon me
beckon me to you
[Chorus]
I like it when we go to extremes
I like it when you enter my dreams
I like it when i feel your touch
I like it.. I like it so much
I like it when we're one on one
I like it when we come undone
I like it when we go to extremes
you let me, let me live my dreams
There must be more to life than this
this life i surely will not miss
to spend my time waiting in line
in search for something the grand design
I long to be connected
I long to be affected
the bright lights beckon me
beckon me to you
[Repeat Chorus]
oh oh oh
I long to be connected
I long to be affected
the bright lights beckon me
beckon me to you
[Repeat Chorus]
I like it so much
oh oh oh
I like it so much
oh oh oh
I like it so much
I like it, I like it so much
so much so much
I like it so much
Byz - Do You wanna fuck
[Chorus] :
Do you wanna fuck?
Yes I wanna do
I wanna put my dick in you
I wanna make you scream my name
It is a game, we both know
Do you wanna fuck?
Yes I wanna do
do some nasty things with you
I will make you moan
And it's more like porn
And you know I don't stop
[Vers 1] :
I can't control it , I'm gon' lose it , I lose it now
My dick is ready
I must juice it
Hold it steady, I am shakin' like a motha'fucker every time I'm with you
And I know that it is mutual, Coz' I can see it in you.. That you want me
You wanna get in my pants
You wanna rip my clothes of and touch my body with your hands
Our plans for fields, here's a chance for real,
give me a sign let me know dirty girl how you feel
Such a feel to the fullest, shootin' sperms in bullets
I wanna grab your jeans now and pull it
Down on the ground n' see that sexy ass
Those panties girl I know that our sex will last (a long time)
Be around, for a couple hours
On the table, in the bed, on the floor, in the showers
Watch the water round down your backside (ssss)
Spank that ass, put it in, let's go for a hell of a ride
And then she ask me
[Chorus]
[Vers 2] :
We have kissin' , tongue kissin'
Nothings missin'
I touch your pussy
You are moaning n' I wishin'
That I rip your panties off on the bed, in the room
That I'm acting real though and fill my head with your perfume
(Boom Flav) Girl tell me how, you manage to make me feel so horny and hard now
Allow me to satisfy you and your fantasy
Is it anything that you want nice if you'll Imagine me
What you want ? How you want it ? What to like?
I would take you to heaven in our bed room fight
Is it a first class flight, we taking off to night
And we ain't landing until we see that sunshine light
It's aight if you want me to slow me down (What the fuck? )
But I wanna beat that pussy up and down and all around
Make them sounds
That will disturb my neighboors
But fuck that shit they'll know Byz the pussy savior
And then she ask me
[Chorus]
I know that you want it girl
I know that you like it girl
I know that you need it girl
I know you love it girl
x2
[Chorus]
x2
Aerosmith-I don't wanna miss a thing
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure
(Chrous
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Lying close to you feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes
And thank God we're together
I just want to stay with you in this moment forever
Forever and ever
(Chrous
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
I don't want to miss one smile
I don't want to miss one kiss
I just want to be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just want to hold you close
Feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment
For all the rest of time
(Chrous
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
(Chrous
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure
(Chrous
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Lying close to you feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes
And thank God we're together
I just want to stay with you in this moment forever
Forever and ever
(Chrous
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
I don't want to miss one smile
I don't want to miss one kiss
I just want to be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just want to hold you close
Feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment
For all the rest of time
(Chrous
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
(Chrous
Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you baby
And I don't want to miss a thing
SHARE THE ANGER
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Et si tu n'existais pas - Joe Dassin
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais.
Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi,
Sans espoir et sans regrets.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour,
Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts
Naître les couleurs du jour.
Et qui n'en revient pas.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Dis-moi pour qui j'existerais.
Des passantes endormies dans mes bras
Que je n'aimerais jamais.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Je ne serais qu'un point de plus
Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va,
Je me sentirais perdu,
J'aurais besoin de toi.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Dis-moi comment j'existerais.
Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi,
Mais je ne serais pas vrai.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Je crois que je l'aurais trouvé,
Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi,
Simplement pour te créer
Et pour te regarder.
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Превод ...
Ако ти не постоеше,
кажи ми зошто јас би постоел.
Да се влечкам по светот без тебе,
без надеж и тага.
Ако ти не постоеше,
ќе се обидев да ја измислам љубовта,
како сликар што гледа низ своите прсти
ги создава боите на денот
и не ги враќа назад.
Ако ти не постоеше,
кажи ми, за кого јас би постоел.
Заспани минувачи во моите прегратки
што никогаш не сум ги сакал.
Ако ти не постоеше,
јас ќе бев само една точка повеќе
во светот кој доаѓа и заминува,
ќе се чувствував изгубен,
ќе ми требаше.
Ако ти не постоеше,
кажми ми, како јас ќе постоев,
би направил нешто да бидам јас,
но не би бил вистински.
Ако ти не постоеше,
мислам дека би ја нашол,
тајната на животот, прашањето зошто,
едноставно за да те создадам
и да те гледам.
:wink:
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais.
Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi,
Sans espoir et sans regrets.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour,
Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts
Naître les couleurs du jour.
Et qui n'en revient pas.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Dis-moi pour qui j'existerais.
Des passantes endormies dans mes bras
Que je n'aimerais jamais.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Je ne serais qu'un point de plus
Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va,
Je me sentirais perdu,
J'aurais besoin de toi.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Dis-moi comment j'existerais.
Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi,
Mais je ne serais pas vrai.
Et si tu n'existais pas,
Je crois que je l'aurais trouvé,
Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi,
Simplement pour te créer
Et pour te regarder.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Превод ...
Ако ти не постоеше,
кажи ми зошто јас би постоел.
Да се влечкам по светот без тебе,
без надеж и тага.
Ако ти не постоеше,
ќе се обидев да ја измислам љубовта,
како сликар што гледа низ своите прсти
ги создава боите на денот
и не ги враќа назад.
Ако ти не постоеше,
кажи ми, за кого јас би постоел.
Заспани минувачи во моите прегратки
што никогаш не сум ги сакал.
Ако ти не постоеше,
јас ќе бев само една точка повеќе
во светот кој доаѓа и заминува,
ќе се чувствував изгубен,
ќе ми требаше.
Ако ти не постоеше,
кажми ми, како јас ќе постоев,
би направил нешто да бидам јас,
но не би бил вистински.
Ако ти не постоеше,
мислам дека би ја нашол,
тајната на животот, прашањето зошто,
едноставно за да те создадам
и да те гледам.
:wink:
Mesaja
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DEATH-Zombie Ritual
Revengeful corpse out to kill
Smell the stench, your guts will spill
Vomit for a mind, maggots for a cock
With his axe the corpse will chop
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
Drink from the goblet, the goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, now you want more
Drifting from the living, joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, now infest your head
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Ceremony now complete
Chosen one is now deceased
Fucking, raping zombie whores
Killing, feasting no remorse
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
Drink from the goblet, the goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, now you want more
Drifting from the living, joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, now infest your head
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Revengeful corpse out to kill
Smell the stench, your guts will spill
Vomit for a mind, maggots for a cock
With his axe the corpse will chop
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
Drink from the goblet, the goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, now you want more
Drifting from the living, joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, now infest your head
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Ceremony now complete
Chosen one is now deceased
Fucking, raping zombie whores
Killing, feasting no remorse
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
Drink from the goblet, the goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, now you want more
Drifting from the living, joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, now infest your head
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
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DEATH-Trapped In A Corner
I want to watch you drown in your lies.
The end of your masquerade, a matter of time
Interwining lies, domination, control
Feed his twisted nature
It is sickening to see dreams die
A word of advice, fate's patience is growning short.
Fake down to your mind and appearance
You will fall short of the dreams to destroy
In time you will find yourself trapped in a corner
These four words my friend, I promise you will not forget
I am one of many that see through your lies
Hiding will do you no good, many seek revenge.
Soon to become a victim of what you live to create, and cannot have.
It is sickening to see dreams die
A word of advice, fate's patience is growning short.
Fake down to your mind and appearance
You will fall short of the dreams to destroy
I want to watch you drown in your lies.
The end of your masquerade, a matter of time
Interwining lies, domination, control
Feed his twisted nature
It is sickening to see dreams die
A word of advice, fate's patience is growning short.
Fake down to your mind and appearance
You will fall short of the dreams to destroy
In time you will find yourself trapped in a corner
These four words my friend, I promise you will not forget
I am one of many that see through your lies
Hiding will do you no good, many seek revenge.
Soon to become a victim of what you live to create, and cannot have.
It is sickening to see dreams die
A word of advice, fate's patience is growning short.
Fake down to your mind and appearance
You will fall short of the dreams to destroy
Mesaja
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DEATH-The Philosopher
Do you feel what I feel, see what I see, hear what I hear
There is a line you must draw between your dream world and reality
Do you live my life or share the breath I breathe
Lies feed your judgement of others
Behold how the blind lead each other
The philosopher
You know so much about nothing at all
Ideas that fall under shadows of theories that stand tall
Thoughts that grow narrow upon being verbally released
Your mind is not your own,
what sounds more mentally stimulating is how you make your choice
So you preach about how I'm supposed to be, yet you don't you know your own
sexuality
Lies feed your judgement of others
Behold how the blind lead each other
The philosopher
You know so much about nothing at all
Do you feel what I feel, see what I see, hear what I hear
There is a line you must draw between your dream world and reality
Do you live my life or share the breath I breathe
Lies feed your judgement of others
Behold how the blind lead each other
The philosopher
You know so much about nothing at all
Ideas that fall under shadows of theories that stand tall
Thoughts that grow narrow upon being verbally released
Your mind is not your own,
what sounds more mentally stimulating is how you make your choice
So you preach about how I'm supposed to be, yet you don't you know your own
sexuality
Lies feed your judgement of others
Behold how the blind lead each other
The philosopher
You know so much about nothing at all
Goddess of Chaos
Nixe Nox
Mudvayne - Happy? Lyrics
In this hole
That is me
The dead are rolling over
In this hole
Thickening
Dirt shoveled over shoulders
I feel it in me
So overwhelmed
All this pressure centerizing
My life overturned
Unfair the despare
All these scars keep ripping open
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?
In this hole
That is me
A life that's growing feeble
In this hole
So limiting
The sun has set; all darkens
Buried underneath
Hands slip off the wheel
Internal path-way to contention
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?
Are you
HAPPY
Are you
HAPPY
Are you feeling happy?
In this hole
That is me
Left with a heart exhausted
What's my release??
What sets me free?
Do you pull me up just to push me down again?
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy?
Peel me from the skiiiiiiiiiin
Peel me from the skiiiiiiiiiin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the boooooooooone
Tear me from the boooooooooone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy?
Does it make you happy?
Are you feeling happy?
Are you f**king happy?
Now that I'm lost left with nothing
Does it make you happy?
Are you feeling happy?
Are you f**king happy?
Now that I'm lost left with nothing?
In this hole
That is me
The dead are rolling over
In this hole
Thickening
Dirt shoveled over shoulders
I feel it in me
So overwhelmed
All this pressure centerizing
My life overturned
Unfair the despare
All these scars keep ripping open
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?
In this hole
That is me
A life that's growing feeble
In this hole
So limiting
The sun has set; all darkens
Buried underneath
Hands slip off the wheel
Internal path-way to contention
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?
Are you
HAPPY
Are you
HAPPY
Are you feeling happy?
In this hole
That is me
Left with a heart exhausted
What's my release??
What sets me free?
Do you pull me up just to push me down again?
Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy?
Peel me from the skiiiiiiiiiin
Peel me from the skiiiiiiiiiin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?
Tear me from the boooooooooone
Tear me from the boooooooooone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy?
Does it make you happy?
Are you feeling happy?
Are you f**king happy?
Now that I'm lost left with nothing
Does it make you happy?
Are you feeling happy?
Are you f**king happy?
Now that I'm lost left with nothing?
Goddess of Chaos
Nixe Nox
Aneurism
Come on over
Do the twist (aha)
Overdo it
Have a fit (aha)
Come on over
Shoot the shit (aha)
Love you so much
Makes me sick (aha)
Beat me out of me (beat up beat up)
She gave the perfect strain to my heart.
Come on over
Do the twist (aha)
Overdo it
Have a fit (aha)
Come on over
Shoot the shit (aha)
Love you so much
Makes me sick (aha)
Beat me out of me (beat up beat up)
She gave the perfect strain to my heart.
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Steve Reich
Three Tales
(libretto)
Dolly
Cloning
Kismet - from Genesis: And placed him in the garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.
Ruth Deech- The process is as follows
Deech- The process is as
Richard Dawkins - They removed the nucleus from an egg.
Dawkins - No genes in it at all
Deech - Take out, that DNA
James Watson - DNA is the script - DNA is script for life.
2 Sopranos: The process is as follows
Dawkins -They put in all the genes - from another cell
Deech - Which can come from the skin, the hair, anywhere you like.
Gina Kolata - They took a frozen, frozen udder cell. From a sheep that was dead
Dawkins - We, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.
Dawkins: machines, machines, are machines (looped)
Kolata - f r o z e n u d d e r c e l l
Deech - You pop it into your enucleated egg
Deech - You then fertilize it - with a little electric shock.
Deech - It starts growing.
2 Sopranos: It starts growing
Deech - Hasn’t happened with humans, but it happened with Dolly
Dolly
Typing: First successful cloning of adult mammal
Typing/3 Tenors: 277 udder cells, 29 embryos yield 1 live sheep
Roslin Institute worker: Let me introduce, Dolly
Dolly : Baaaa
Kismet: Would you like to be cloned?
3 Tenors, long canon on: 277 udder cells, 29 embryos yield 1 live sheep.
Stephen J. Gould: No, wouldn’t be me. Just a genetic copy.
Dawkins: It would be a truly riveting, fascinating experience.
Gould: Identical twins are better, and closer clones than Dolly
Jaron Lanier: Cloning is only one of the new biological tricks. Not the one to be most worried about.
Kismet - from Genesis: And placed him in the garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.
Human body machine
Dawkins: We, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.
Dawkins: Machines, machines, are machines (looped)
Sherry Turkle: When Marvin Minsky said, “The mind is a meat machine”, people freaked.
Dawkins: A monkey is a machine that preserves genes up trees,
Watson: The script for human life is 3 billion letters,
Turkle: It doesn’t seem so frightening anymore.
Dawkins: a fish is a machine that preserves genes in the water.
Turkle: preparing for a new kind of -kind of cyborg consciousness
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dawkins: They’re all about preserving the code, preserving DNA.
Rodney Brooks: We’ve always thought of our brains in terms of our latest technology
Dawkins: DNA is a molecule - it carries coded information - exactly like a computer tape.
Brooks: So at one point our brains were steam engines.
Dawkins: What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire
Brooks: When I was a kid, they were telephone switching networks
Dawkins: not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life’.
Brooks: Then they became digital computers.
Dawkins: If you want to understand life,
Brooks: Then, massively parallel digital computers
Dawkins: think about information technology
Brooks: Probably, out there now, there are kid’s books which say that our brain is the world wide web.
Dawkins: I don’t think there’s anything that we are, that is in principle, deeply different from what computers are.
Brooks: We probably haven't got it right yet.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brooks: Alan Turing came up with this idea
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Alan Turing
Genesis, drummed out: And the Eternal
Brooks: if you talked to a computer over instant messaging,
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: talked to a computer
Genesis: commanded the man,
Brooks: and you couldn’t tell the difference
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: couldn’t tell the difference
Genesis: of every tree of the Garden
Brooks: between whether it was a computer answering you or a person answering you.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: a computer or a person
Genesis: you may freely eat.
Brooks: Then the computer must be intelligent
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: must be intelligent
Genesis: But of the tree of knowledge
Brooks: That leaves out a whole lot of stuff that we do with one another
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: leaves out a whole lot
Genesis: of good and evil
Brooks: We look each other in the eye,
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: we look
Genesis: you must not eat
Brooks: we smile
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: we smile
Genesis: for on the day you eat it,
Brooks: we nod at each other.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: we nod
Genesis: you will surely die.
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Steven Pinker: I might be fooled by a good silk flower. It doesn’t mean that its a real flower. It may just mean that I don’t know enough about flowers.
Dawkins: We, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.
Robert Pollack: I have no sense of guilt pulling the plug on any machine.
Adin Steinsaltz: Its a machine or not a machine. The real question would be: Are you responsible or not responsible for anything?
Turkle: Not what the computer does, but what the computer does to us.
Kevin Warwick: The human body is extremely limited. I would love to upgrade myself.
Darwin
Dawkins: Darwinian natural selection is the key to understanding the whole of the existence of life.
Dawkins: A self replicating molecule really began the origin of life.
Dawkins: It replicates, it produces copies and copies and copies and copies. If its successful, there are are going to be thousands of copies in the future.
Dawkins: copies, copies and copies (looped)
Dawkins: these things competed in the primeval soup
Dawkins: They started to build - cells around themselves - colonies of cells - which are what we are.
Dawkins: The ones that were good at it, stayed, the ones that were bad, didn’t stay.
Dawkins: Natural selection. the blind, unconscious, automatic, process - has no purpose - in mind.
----------------------------------------
Joshua Getzler: Evolution is - in a sense, the emergence of a new religion.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: A new religion
Dawkins: Consider the idea of God.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Consider
Lanier: Its a terrible mistake, to think of the spiritual impulse, as arising from cognitive weakness.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Terrible mistake
Getzler: Well, its a religious war - its a war between religions.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Religious war
Dawkins: God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Survival value
Getzler: The 20th century, where religious thinking was abandoned for secular and Darwinian ideology
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Abandoned
Dawkins: If we all demanded evidence before we would believe something, religions would get nowhere.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Demanded evidence
Getzler: The 20th century was the worst graveyard in human history...and that should give us pause...
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Worst graveyard
Interlude
Steinsaltz: Every creature has a song - The song of the dogs - and the song of the doves - the song of the fly - the song of the fox. - What do they say?
Robots/Cyborgs/Immortality
Ray Kurzweil: Technology is a continuation of evolution
Kurzweil: we can create things
Kurzweil: far faster than biological evolution
Kurzweil: can create something more intelligent than ourselves
Kurzweil: intelligent machines.
Kurzwei: machines, machines, intelligent, ‘telligent machines (looped)
Cynthia Breazeal: Kismet is my baby
Cynthia: Building a baby the hard way
Cynthia: How do you play the role of evolution?
Sherry: One 10 year old said to me
Sherry: The robots are like Pinnochio
Sherry: not like real boys
Sherry: They’re sort of alive
Cynthia: sort of alive
Sheri: doesn’t have a mother
Sheri: doesn’t have siblings
Sheri: doesn’t know its gonna die.
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Kurzweil: We’re going to be thrown from our perch of evolutionary superiority
Bill Joy: If we create a species smarter than ourselves our prospects are dim
Marvin Minsky: intelligent robots - will be ah, our replacement.
Bill Joy: If we’re gonna create a robot species we oughta take a vote first
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Henri Atlan: The Prophet Jeremiah
Atlan: decided
Atlan: to build
Atlan: an artificial man
Atlan: he was perfect
Atlan: was able to talk
Atlan: immediately he talked to Jeremiah
Atlan: and he ask him
Atlan: “What did you do?”
Atlan: “Well, look, I have succeeded”
Atlan: Say, “No, no no, is not good.”
Atlan: “From now on
Atlan: when people will meet other people in the street
Atlan: they will not know
Atlan: whether you made them
Atlan: or G-d made them”
Atlan: “Undo - me”
Atlan: So that’s what Jeremiah did.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Brooks: I don’t think robots are going to take over from us
Rod Brooks: because there isn’t going to an an ‘us’
Rod Brooks: Because we, are starting to bring technology, into our bodies.
Cynthia: This, gives me pause (looped)
Minsky: You go and buy this module
Minsky: in the Mind Store
Minsky: and have it connected to you brain
Minsky: and then you do four or five part counterpoint
Kurzweil: If I scan your brain
Kurzweil: download that information
Kurzweil: I’ll have a little you
Kurzweil: right here in my personal computer.
Minsky: No reason people should put up with death
Minsky: start redesigning ourselves
Minsky: I think we’ll turn into
Minsky: something quite different.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dawkins: Once upon a time there was
Dawkins: carbon based life,
Dawkins: and it gave over to,
Dawkins: silicon based life.
Dawkins: I don’t view the prospect, with equanimity
Dawkins: maybe I’m just sentimental
------------------------------------------------------------------
Deech: Here we are
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: Here we are
Deech: under the Tree
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: under the Tree again
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: at the end of the day
Steinsaltz: The sin of Adam - in eating
Steinsaltz: he was too hasty.
Kismet: Every creature has a song, what do they say?
Cynthia: (To Kismet as her robot baby) So how’s your day goin’?
Cynthia: Yeah?
Cynthia: You got it all planned out?
Cynthia: You do?
Cynthia: You got it all planned out?
Cynthia: Maybe you’ll play with your yellow toy?
**********************
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dolly Interviewees
in order of appearance
Ruth Deech is chair of the U.K. Human Fertilization & Embryology Authority which oversees embryo research and assisted reproduction and advises the government on related issues such as cloning. She is a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, a trustee of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Richard Dawkins is the first Charles Simonyi Professor of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His bestselling books include The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and River out of Eden. He has won the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, the 1990 Michael Faraday Award, the 1994 Nakayama Award for Human Science and the 1997 International Cosmos Prize.
James D. Watson along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for their work discovering the structure of DNA. He is the author of The Double Helix and the ground breaking textbook The Molecular Biology of the Gene. He is currently President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York and was the first Director of the National Center for Human Genome Research.
Gina Kolata has been writing about science for the New York Times for over a decade. She originally broke the story of Dolly in America and is the author of Clone - the road to Dolly and the path ahead. She has a degree in microbiology and has studied molecular biology at MIT at the graduate level. She has taught writing at Princeton University.
Kismet is the robot created by Cynthia Breazeal at MIT designed for social interactions with humans. Cynthia writes, “a new range of applications (domestic, entertainment, health care, etc.) are driving the development of robots that can interact and cooperate with people, and play a part in their daily lives.” Kismet has aroused media interest world wide.
Stephen Jay Gould was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard and curator of invertebrate paleontology at that university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. He was also Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. His bestselling books include Wonderful Life, The Mismeasure of Man and Questioning the Millennium.
Jaron Lanier coined the term ‘Virtual Reality’. He co-developed the first glove device for virtual world interaction and the first virtual reality applications in surgical simulation. He is a visiting artist at the Interactive Telecommunications Program of the Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University, and a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Computer Science Department.
Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a clinical psychologist. She is the author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit . Her current research is on the psychological impact of computational objects ranging from "affective computers" to robotic dolls and pets.
Rodney Brooks is Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science. His research is concerned with both the engineering of intelligent robots and with understanding human intelligence through building humanoid robots. He books include Cambrian Intelligence (1999) and Flesh and Machines published in 2002.
Steven Pinker is professor of psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. He is the author of the bestselling books The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works. His research on visual cognition and on the psychology of language has received the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association.
Robert Pollack is professor of biological sciences at Columbia University and is director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion. His books include The Missing Moment and Signs of Life: The Language and Meaning of DNA which received the Lionel Trilling Award and was translated into six languages.
Adin Steinsaltz is internationally regarded as one of the leading rabbis of the century. Time magazine called him a “once-in-a-millennium scholar”. He has almost completed translating the entire Babylonian Talmud into modern Hebrew as well as English, French and Russian. He has been a resident scholar at Yale and the Institute for Advanced study at Princeton. He fulfills a unique role as a bridge between those who are religious and those who are not.
Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading in U.K. He attracted considerable attention recently when he had a small computer implant surgically put into his arm and is planning further bodily implants. He is at the forefront of those who would like to merge themselves with technology to become the first cyborgs.
Joshua Getzler is Senior Law Fellow at St. Hugh’s College and University Lecturer in Law at Oxford University. Earlier on he studied Chemistry and Physics though his degrees are in Law and History. He also has a keen interest in Darwin as an intellectual backdrop to economics and other aspects of our civilization.
Ray Kurzweil’s inventions include reading machines for the blind, music synthesizers for Stevie Wonder and many others and speech recognition technology. He is the author of the best selling The Age of Spiritual Machines. He was named inventor of the year by MIT in 1998 and was awarded the Dickson Prize from Carnegie Mellon in 1994.
Cynthia Breazeal is a post doctoral Fellow working in robotics at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. Her specialty is socially intelligent humanoid robots and she has recently built Kismet. She writes, “The sorts of competencies I would like Kismet to learn are those social and communicative skills exhibited by human infants within their first year of life.”
Bill Joy is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. He is co-author of The Java Language Specification and principal designer of Berkeley Unix (BSD), the first ‘open source’ operating system. In 1997, President Clinton appointed him Co-Chairman of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee. His article in Wired ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’ produced a huge response and he is now at work on a book expanding this subject.
Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at MIT. His research has led to both theoretical and practical advances in artificial intelligence and placed his imprint upon the entire field. He is the author of The Society of Mind. Since the early 1950s, he has worked on using computational ideas to characterize human psychological processes, as well as working to endow machines with intelligence.
Henri Atlan MD is Professor Emeritus of Biophysics at the Universities of Paris and Jerusalem. He is Director of Research in the Philosophy of Biology at EHESS in Paris and a member of the French National Committee for Health and Life Sciences. He has written numerous works on cell biology, immunology, artificial intelligence and philosophy of biology. He is a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.
Three Tales
(libretto)
Dolly
Cloning
Kismet - from Genesis: And placed him in the garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.
Ruth Deech- The process is as follows
Deech- The process is as
Richard Dawkins - They removed the nucleus from an egg.
Dawkins - No genes in it at all
Deech - Take out, that DNA
James Watson - DNA is the script - DNA is script for life.
2 Sopranos: The process is as follows
Dawkins -They put in all the genes - from another cell
Deech - Which can come from the skin, the hair, anywhere you like.
Gina Kolata - They took a frozen, frozen udder cell. From a sheep that was dead
Dawkins - We, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.
Dawkins: machines, machines, are machines (looped)
Kolata - f r o z e n u d d e r c e l l
Deech - You pop it into your enucleated egg
Deech - You then fertilize it - with a little electric shock.
Deech - It starts growing.
2 Sopranos: It starts growing
Deech - Hasn’t happened with humans, but it happened with Dolly
Dolly
Typing: First successful cloning of adult mammal
Typing/3 Tenors: 277 udder cells, 29 embryos yield 1 live sheep
Roslin Institute worker: Let me introduce, Dolly
Dolly : Baaaa
Kismet: Would you like to be cloned?
3 Tenors, long canon on: 277 udder cells, 29 embryos yield 1 live sheep.
Stephen J. Gould: No, wouldn’t be me. Just a genetic copy.
Dawkins: It would be a truly riveting, fascinating experience.
Gould: Identical twins are better, and closer clones than Dolly
Jaron Lanier: Cloning is only one of the new biological tricks. Not the one to be most worried about.
Kismet - from Genesis: And placed him in the garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.
Human body machine
Dawkins: We, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.
Dawkins: Machines, machines, are machines (looped)
Sherry Turkle: When Marvin Minsky said, “The mind is a meat machine”, people freaked.
Dawkins: A monkey is a machine that preserves genes up trees,
Watson: The script for human life is 3 billion letters,
Turkle: It doesn’t seem so frightening anymore.
Dawkins: a fish is a machine that preserves genes in the water.
Turkle: preparing for a new kind of -kind of cyborg consciousness
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dawkins: They’re all about preserving the code, preserving DNA.
Rodney Brooks: We’ve always thought of our brains in terms of our latest technology
Dawkins: DNA is a molecule - it carries coded information - exactly like a computer tape.
Brooks: So at one point our brains were steam engines.
Dawkins: What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire
Brooks: When I was a kid, they were telephone switching networks
Dawkins: not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life’.
Brooks: Then they became digital computers.
Dawkins: If you want to understand life,
Brooks: Then, massively parallel digital computers
Dawkins: think about information technology
Brooks: Probably, out there now, there are kid’s books which say that our brain is the world wide web.
Dawkins: I don’t think there’s anything that we are, that is in principle, deeply different from what computers are.
Brooks: We probably haven't got it right yet.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brooks: Alan Turing came up with this idea
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Alan Turing
Genesis, drummed out: And the Eternal
Brooks: if you talked to a computer over instant messaging,
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: talked to a computer
Genesis: commanded the man,
Brooks: and you couldn’t tell the difference
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: couldn’t tell the difference
Genesis: of every tree of the Garden
Brooks: between whether it was a computer answering you or a person answering you.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: a computer or a person
Genesis: you may freely eat.
Brooks: Then the computer must be intelligent
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: must be intelligent
Genesis: But of the tree of knowledge
Brooks: That leaves out a whole lot of stuff that we do with one another
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: leaves out a whole lot
Genesis: of good and evil
Brooks: We look each other in the eye,
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: we look
Genesis: you must not eat
Brooks: we smile
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: we smile
Genesis: for on the day you eat it,
Brooks: we nod at each other.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: we nod
Genesis: you will surely die.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steven Pinker: I might be fooled by a good silk flower. It doesn’t mean that its a real flower. It may just mean that I don’t know enough about flowers.
Dawkins: We, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.
Robert Pollack: I have no sense of guilt pulling the plug on any machine.
Adin Steinsaltz: Its a machine or not a machine. The real question would be: Are you responsible or not responsible for anything?
Turkle: Not what the computer does, but what the computer does to us.
Kevin Warwick: The human body is extremely limited. I would love to upgrade myself.
Darwin
Dawkins: Darwinian natural selection is the key to understanding the whole of the existence of life.
Dawkins: A self replicating molecule really began the origin of life.
Dawkins: It replicates, it produces copies and copies and copies and copies. If its successful, there are are going to be thousands of copies in the future.
Dawkins: copies, copies and copies (looped)
Dawkins: these things competed in the primeval soup
Dawkins: They started to build - cells around themselves - colonies of cells - which are what we are.
Dawkins: The ones that were good at it, stayed, the ones that were bad, didn’t stay.
Dawkins: Natural selection. the blind, unconscious, automatic, process - has no purpose - in mind.
----------------------------------------
Joshua Getzler: Evolution is - in a sense, the emergence of a new religion.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: A new religion
Dawkins: Consider the idea of God.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Consider
Lanier: Its a terrible mistake, to think of the spiritual impulse, as arising from cognitive weakness.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Terrible mistake
Getzler: Well, its a religious war - its a war between religions.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Religious war
Dawkins: God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Survival value
Getzler: The 20th century, where religious thinking was abandoned for secular and Darwinian ideology
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Abandoned
Dawkins: If we all demanded evidence before we would believe something, religions would get nowhere.
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Demanded evidence
Getzler: The 20th century was the worst graveyard in human history...and that should give us pause...
2 sopranos, 2 tenors: Worst graveyard
Interlude
Steinsaltz: Every creature has a song - The song of the dogs - and the song of the doves - the song of the fly - the song of the fox. - What do they say?
Robots/Cyborgs/Immortality
Ray Kurzweil: Technology is a continuation of evolution
Kurzweil: we can create things
Kurzweil: far faster than biological evolution
Kurzweil: can create something more intelligent than ourselves
Kurzweil: intelligent machines.
Kurzwei: machines, machines, intelligent, ‘telligent machines (looped)
Cynthia Breazeal: Kismet is my baby
Cynthia: Building a baby the hard way
Cynthia: How do you play the role of evolution?
Sherry: One 10 year old said to me
Sherry: The robots are like Pinnochio
Sherry: not like real boys
Sherry: They’re sort of alive
Cynthia: sort of alive
Sheri: doesn’t have a mother
Sheri: doesn’t have siblings
Sheri: doesn’t know its gonna die.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kurzweil: We’re going to be thrown from our perch of evolutionary superiority
Bill Joy: If we create a species smarter than ourselves our prospects are dim
Marvin Minsky: intelligent robots - will be ah, our replacement.
Bill Joy: If we’re gonna create a robot species we oughta take a vote first
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Henri Atlan: The Prophet Jeremiah
Atlan: decided
Atlan: to build
Atlan: an artificial man
Atlan: he was perfect
Atlan: was able to talk
Atlan: immediately he talked to Jeremiah
Atlan: and he ask him
Atlan: “What did you do?”
Atlan: “Well, look, I have succeeded”
Atlan: Say, “No, no no, is not good.”
Atlan: “From now on
Atlan: when people will meet other people in the street
Atlan: they will not know
Atlan: whether you made them
Atlan: or G-d made them”
Atlan: “Undo - me”
Atlan: So that’s what Jeremiah did.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Brooks: I don’t think robots are going to take over from us
Rod Brooks: because there isn’t going to an an ‘us’
Rod Brooks: Because we, are starting to bring technology, into our bodies.
Cynthia: This, gives me pause (looped)
Minsky: You go and buy this module
Minsky: in the Mind Store
Minsky: and have it connected to you brain
Minsky: and then you do four or five part counterpoint
Kurzweil: If I scan your brain
Kurzweil: download that information
Kurzweil: I’ll have a little you
Kurzweil: right here in my personal computer.
Minsky: No reason people should put up with death
Minsky: start redesigning ourselves
Minsky: I think we’ll turn into
Minsky: something quite different.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dawkins: Once upon a time there was
Dawkins: carbon based life,
Dawkins: and it gave over to,
Dawkins: silicon based life.
Dawkins: I don’t view the prospect, with equanimity
Dawkins: maybe I’m just sentimental
------------------------------------------------------------------
Deech: Here we are
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: Here we are
Deech: under the Tree
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: under the Tree again
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: at the end of the day
Steinsaltz: The sin of Adam - in eating
Steinsaltz: he was too hasty.
Kismet: Every creature has a song, what do they say?
Cynthia: (To Kismet as her robot baby) So how’s your day goin’?
Cynthia: Yeah?
Cynthia: You got it all planned out?
Cynthia: You do?
Cynthia: You got it all planned out?
Cynthia: Maybe you’ll play with your yellow toy?
**********************
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dolly Interviewees
in order of appearance
Ruth Deech is chair of the U.K. Human Fertilization & Embryology Authority which oversees embryo research and assisted reproduction and advises the government on related issues such as cloning. She is a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, a trustee of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Richard Dawkins is the first Charles Simonyi Professor of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His bestselling books include The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and River out of Eden. He has won the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, the 1990 Michael Faraday Award, the 1994 Nakayama Award for Human Science and the 1997 International Cosmos Prize.
James D. Watson along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for their work discovering the structure of DNA. He is the author of The Double Helix and the ground breaking textbook The Molecular Biology of the Gene. He is currently President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York and was the first Director of the National Center for Human Genome Research.
Gina Kolata has been writing about science for the New York Times for over a decade. She originally broke the story of Dolly in America and is the author of Clone - the road to Dolly and the path ahead. She has a degree in microbiology and has studied molecular biology at MIT at the graduate level. She has taught writing at Princeton University.
Kismet is the robot created by Cynthia Breazeal at MIT designed for social interactions with humans. Cynthia writes, “a new range of applications (domestic, entertainment, health care, etc.) are driving the development of robots that can interact and cooperate with people, and play a part in their daily lives.” Kismet has aroused media interest world wide.
Stephen Jay Gould was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard and curator of invertebrate paleontology at that university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. He was also Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. His bestselling books include Wonderful Life, The Mismeasure of Man and Questioning the Millennium.
Jaron Lanier coined the term ‘Virtual Reality’. He co-developed the first glove device for virtual world interaction and the first virtual reality applications in surgical simulation. He is a visiting artist at the Interactive Telecommunications Program of the Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University, and a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Computer Science Department.
Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a clinical psychologist. She is the author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit . Her current research is on the psychological impact of computational objects ranging from "affective computers" to robotic dolls and pets.
Rodney Brooks is Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science. His research is concerned with both the engineering of intelligent robots and with understanding human intelligence through building humanoid robots. He books include Cambrian Intelligence (1999) and Flesh and Machines published in 2002.
Steven Pinker is professor of psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. He is the author of the bestselling books The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works. His research on visual cognition and on the psychology of language has received the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association.
Robert Pollack is professor of biological sciences at Columbia University and is director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion. His books include The Missing Moment and Signs of Life: The Language and Meaning of DNA which received the Lionel Trilling Award and was translated into six languages.
Adin Steinsaltz is internationally regarded as one of the leading rabbis of the century. Time magazine called him a “once-in-a-millennium scholar”. He has almost completed translating the entire Babylonian Talmud into modern Hebrew as well as English, French and Russian. He has been a resident scholar at Yale and the Institute for Advanced study at Princeton. He fulfills a unique role as a bridge between those who are religious and those who are not.
Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading in U.K. He attracted considerable attention recently when he had a small computer implant surgically put into his arm and is planning further bodily implants. He is at the forefront of those who would like to merge themselves with technology to become the first cyborgs.
Joshua Getzler is Senior Law Fellow at St. Hugh’s College and University Lecturer in Law at Oxford University. Earlier on he studied Chemistry and Physics though his degrees are in Law and History. He also has a keen interest in Darwin as an intellectual backdrop to economics and other aspects of our civilization.
Ray Kurzweil’s inventions include reading machines for the blind, music synthesizers for Stevie Wonder and many others and speech recognition technology. He is the author of the best selling The Age of Spiritual Machines. He was named inventor of the year by MIT in 1998 and was awarded the Dickson Prize from Carnegie Mellon in 1994.
Cynthia Breazeal is a post doctoral Fellow working in robotics at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. Her specialty is socially intelligent humanoid robots and she has recently built Kismet. She writes, “The sorts of competencies I would like Kismet to learn are those social and communicative skills exhibited by human infants within their first year of life.”
Bill Joy is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. He is co-author of The Java Language Specification and principal designer of Berkeley Unix (BSD), the first ‘open source’ operating system. In 1997, President Clinton appointed him Co-Chairman of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee. His article in Wired ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’ produced a huge response and he is now at work on a book expanding this subject.
Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at MIT. His research has led to both theoretical and practical advances in artificial intelligence and placed his imprint upon the entire field. He is the author of The Society of Mind. Since the early 1950s, he has worked on using computational ideas to characterize human psychological processes, as well as working to endow machines with intelligence.
Henri Atlan MD is Professor Emeritus of Biophysics at the Universities of Paris and Jerusalem. He is Director of Research in the Philosophy of Biology at EHESS in Paris and a member of the French National Committee for Health and Life Sciences. He has written numerous works on cell biology, immunology, artificial intelligence and philosophy of biology. He is a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.