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"I think engineering will supply our demand for a "spiritual" life after meat death."
- Bart Kosko
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| Dog-Brain Robot | ||
| The body of a robot, commanded by a dog's brain that had been wiped and reprogrammed. |
The best part of using a dog brain is that it has an engrained loyalty to humans.
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 (Dog-Brain Robot from 'The Cosmic Junkman' by Rog Philips)) “We’re just afraid of what they could do if they got free,” Bill said. “Their potential intelligence is greater than human. If they overcame their built-in instinct for obedience to human command they could—why think of what our two million robots could do!” “Why all this discussion of robots?” Vilbis said. “They’re just dogs. Not even that. They were dogs for six months of their existence before their brains were transplanted into synthegell fluid by the mind transplant machine.” |
| Technovelgy from The Cosmic Junkman,
by Rog Philips. Published by Imagination in 1953 Additional resources -
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