Bo Fowler's Blog, page 12

Contact

It may be necessary for us to become the alien we have been searching for.

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Perhaps all planets are traps not just of gravity but of ways of thinking as well.

The Lesson

Children should be taught at nine to believe in a God without question than at twelve they should be shown the utter absurdity of such an idea.

The question

The question is not whether we will regard the machines of the future as conscious or not, nor is the question whether the machines of the future will in fact be conscious or not, the question is whether the machines of the future will regard themselves as conscious or not.

The Second Chance

And God said onto Adam; "eat from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge again and ye shall be cast out from the garden of Eden."

The Clue

Looking upwards one day I thought I glimpsed the faint outline of a hyper dimensional object, a hole in the fabric of our spacetime, a singularity, a mighty glitch in the program...

When in fact it was merely a cloud seen out of the corner of my eye.

The Event

Something took place, exactly when or where has yet to be established, what it means we don't know...

Pity

We feel sorrow for the child brought up by wolves in great forests when perhaps we should feel more sorrow for ourselves.

The Aesthetic Threat

The birth of a mutant so beautiful they render everything other then themselves meaningless.

Work in Progress

A poem only lives while it is being written; the same is true for us.