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Ao invés das letras (incipientes) de cada som, o encarte em “Man-Amplified” (1992) contém textos q, aparentemente, contextualizam um por um dos 10 registrados. Versam sobre cibernética, matemática, física, dadaísmo, neuroquímica, sobrando até pra Carl Jung e Wilhelm Reich.

Pra poupar os amigos por aqui – e tb ñ forçar minha datilografia – copio apenas o trecho final, q ñ contextualiza nenhuma das faixas e q parece concluir de acordo o cabecismo conceitual da coisa:

“There is a real possibility that we may one day be able to design a machine that is more intelligent than ourselves. There are all sorts of biological limitations on our own intellectual capacity, ranging from the limited number of computing elements we have avaiable in our craniums to the limited span of human life and the slow rate at which incoming data can be accepted. There is no reason to suppose that such stringent limitations will apply to computers of the future, it will be much easier for computers to bootstrap themselves on the experience of previous computers than it is for man to benefit from the knowledge acquired by his predecessors. Moreover, if we can design a machine more intelligent than ourselves, then a fortiori that machine will be able to design one more intelligent than itself. Dr. Marvin Minsky of M.I.T. has predicted: ‘As the machine improves we shall begin to see all the phenomena associated with the terms ‘conciousness’, ‘intuition’ and ‘intelligence’. It is hard to say how close we are to this threshold, but once it is crossed the world will not be the same; it is unreasonable to think that machines could become nearly as intelligent as we are and then stop, or to suppose that we will always be able to compete with them in wit and wisdom. Whether or not we could retain some sort of control of the machines, assuming that we would want to, the nature of our activities and aspirations would be changed utterly by the presence on Earth of intellectually superior entities. But perhaps the most portentous implication in the evolving symbiosis of the human bio-computer and his electronic brainchild was voiced by Dr. Irving John Good of Trinity College, Oxford, in his prophetic statement: ‘The first ultra-intelligent machine is the last invention that man need make'”.