User:Vincent de Ruijter

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Makes you wonder

Immortality, psychokinesis, wormhole, guided rat

Interests

Don't worry, be happy

Ethanol, Tetrahydrocannabinol

Music

• Oldies (mainly rock/blues): Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Robert Cray, Edwyn Collins, Santana, King, Bad Company, The Romantics, The Stranglers, Sting, Sniff 'n' the Tears, Doobie Brothers, Hall and Oates, Robert Palmer, Frank Sinatra, Steve Miller, Neil Young, Genesis/Phil Collins/Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Bill Withers, Stories and many more
• Chill out, lounge, ambient, jazz, acid jazz, deep house, garage: Saint Germain, Miles Davis, Paolo Conte, Dave Brubeck, Ministry of Sound, Aphex Twin, The Herbaliser, Thievery Corporation, Orbital, Moby, Air, Gotan Project

Movies

Requiem for a dream, Leon, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, Memento, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects

Sports

Chess, road racing

Student life

ASVL, MIMagine

Quote from 'I, robot'

The following quote is from, which I thought, was the best and most intense scene in the 2004 SF film I, Robot (film). Dr. Alfred Lanning, an important artificial intelligence developer, narrates:

There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code, that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul.

Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more?

When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote of a soul?

Pretty philosophic questions on this interesting (and dangerous) development of a new 'lifeform', spoken in a beautiful but disturbingly intense message.

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