The Book of the Machine

I'm sure we all get it.... Dynamic.

What do the magnifying glass and description pages say?

Another interesting thing.... Google "the book of the machine"

 

Having spoken to the mad prophet, I think it's simply more of his crazy rambling :)

 

The truth is fluid is like notbatti said dynamic :D

There is not one truth but ever changing...

The statement also probably refers to the contents of the description which apparantly says something about a robot hive. So refers to probably an ever evolving robot, hydra may have been only a tip of the iceberg but seems to me to be some type of robot collective and robots that are going to be changing.

Pretty certain this mission is probably a leader or hook onto another mission or missions.

 

I got the internal text off the item description. I'll provide screenies and a transcript sometime this evening. In summary, it appears to talk about robot evolution and the hivemind.


PS: Hi Pioneer! Have fun watching us monkeys dance! LOL The game is afoot!

 

On the other hand:

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[FONT=Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]I was thinking about what you said, that the preeminent truth of our age is that you cannot fight the system. But if, as you say, the truth is fluid, that the truth is subjective, then maybe you can fight the system. As long as just one person refuses to be broken, refuses to bow down.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]CAPTAIN JOHN SHERIDAN, Babylon 5, "Intersections in Real Time" (1997)[/FONT]​

 

Big ass robot on the way indeed.

 

I hope they bring their space ships :D

 

Here's the text of the book. Tass, feel free to wikify:


The Third Level Replicator

Evolution is driven by three
requirements: Variation, Selection,
and Heredity. If you have these, then
you must get Evolution. The genes in
our DNA are just a manifestation of
Evolution: it has Variation, Selection
and Heredity. Hence it must have
Evolution. It is unavoidable, it is a
mathematical consequence
of the evolutionary algorithm.

But Evolution is not dependent on
DNA. DNA is just a means. In
essence DNA is just a sequence of
four letters (A,G,T, and C) grouped in
threes, transcribed as one long
molecule that can be copied. It is a
class of information that has
Variation, Selection, and Heredity. As
an information class, it is not alone
having these traits. There is another.

In fact, there are several other
classes of information. Think
languages, how they evolve and
survive or die. What is language good
for? To pass on information from the
parent to the offspring, independent
on what can be coded as instincts in
DNA, this making the offspring better
as survival. Think all the little habits
we employ. Why do we wear a hat?
Originally, it was to protect the head
from the elements; now it has
evolved into a fashion. It has become
something else which spreads from
human to human as an idea or a
concept.

We can call these "memes" from
"mimieme", that which imitates. If
genes are the first level of replicators,
then memes are the second level
replicators. Originally, memes were
an advantage to our DNA and they
made our DNA better at surviving. As
a consequence, we humans came to
be as a species.

Memes are depending on us to
survive, competing for "life" within
our human minds. But they are little
tidbits of information that has
Variation, Selection, and Heredity.

The third level is when there are an
external means for the memes to
copy and spread, making them
independent of our locality in time
and space. And it all started with
writing. With the written language,
ideas could spread across generations
and across continents. From that
came all other technological
means to spread information: the
printing press, computers, jump
gates, the interstellar network and so on.

Technology was just a useful catalyst
for the second level replicators,
making them (and as a consequence
us) better at surviving, but eventually
they became a goal unto themselves.
They were riding piggy-back on us,
because we made copies of them. We
were their means of reproduction.
When that happened, we got to the
third level replicators" technological
memes, or "temes".

Then something happened: we have
machines that build machines and
computer programs evolve over
time to be better at solving problems.
When we passed that threshold, the
machines were able to replicate
themselves . And since Evolution only
requires Variation, Selection, and
Heredity, we and out DNA were
suddenly redundant.




The Rhizome Principle

We like to organize our societies
hierarchically, especially if we have a
large organization. In essence, out
societies are modeled on our bodies:
there is a brain, data gathering, a
support structure, an information
infrastructure, a logistical
infrastructure, muscles that do things,
et cetera. Although not all of these
are under direct control of the brain,
all of them are subordinated to the
brain. Even the brain is organized into
sections that do different things. And
so de we model our society.

In the uplinked virtuana, there is no
such thing as hierarchy. Even if there
is, it is actually arbitrary and
constructed by us so that we can
handle things. The computers don't
care. For all they care, they have two
options: they are connected, or not
connected.

When the genetically-programmed
quantum computers came online, a
new order emerged: the non-order of
the rhizome.

We would like to think that there is,
somewhere, a computer server which is
the brain of the robot kind, because
that's how we would create it. We
hope that it is, because it gives us
hope that there is a possibility that we
can make one surgical strike and take
the robots out. Sadly for us, there isn't.

Instead, there is the rhizome, in
which every quantum core can be
connected to any other quantum core.
There's no center; there's just one
cloud of quantum cores that connects
to each other. Even if ruptured, each
part of the rhizome can serve as an
independent whole until it is reunited.
There is no apparent structure; there
is only the rhizome.

There is the Mind Cloud.