Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983
The nature caused by human culture.
“There may even come a moment that our connection with an industrially manufactured coke bottle may be richer and more mythical than our relation with a genetically analyzed and manipulated rabbit in the woods. “
“One must free oneself from one’s ideas in writing, not take charge of them. One must free language from its purpose, free concepts from their meaning, free the world from its reality — which is an even greater illusion.”
Jean Baudrillard, Fragments, Verso Radical Thinkers edition, London, 2007, p. 50
THE WORLD COMMISSION ON GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS & SPIRITUALITY
“We conclude that the question is no longer whether a fundamental change is coming, but whether the change will be for the better or for the worse, when it will be coming and at what price. The sooner we pave the way to positive change, the less traumatic will be the transformation and the smaller its human, economic and ecological cost. All of us now share the responsibility of realizing that we live at the tipping point of contemporary civilization and for recognizing that informed thinking and responsible acting are needed to bring us to the threshold of a civilization that is truly peaceful and sustainable.”- Budapest Declaration, Dec. 20, 2004
“…at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.”
The Simulation Argument
Nick Bostrom
Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University