“Some definitions that you may run into as you read more about (this) in the future:”

Automaton

1. A mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.
2. A person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence.
3. Something capable of acting automatically or without an external motive force.

Simulacrum

1. A slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
2. An effigy, image, or representation: a simulacrum of Aphrodite.

Doppelgänger

1. A ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.

Golem

1. Jewish Folklore. A figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.
2. A stupid and clumsy person; blockhead.
3. An Automaton or Android.
1. An automaton in the form of a human being.

Cyborg

1. A person who’s physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device.

Cybernetics

1. The study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.

Robot

1. A machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
2. Any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.
3. Operating automatically: a robot train operating between airline terminals.

Urschleim

1. Original protoplasm from which all life evolved (From the German)

Urschleim in Silicon

1. The birth of Artificial Intelligence in silicon

Finite State Machine

1. An abstract machine consisting of a set of states (including the initial state), a set of input events, a set of output events, and a state transition function. The function takes the current state and an input event and returns the new set of output events and the next state. Some states may be designated as “terminal states”. The state machine can also be viewed as a function that maps an ordered sequence of input events into a corresponding sequence of (sets of) output events.

Lawrence of Arabia

“PK Parties are events, somewhat unusual events, where people gather together to learn how to perform PK. PK stands for psychokinesis, or mind over matter! PK Parties work the best when people have fun and generate a lot of emotion, much like a party. Thus, I named them PK Parties.

…In January 1981, I decided to have a party wherein people could learn how to perform psychokinesis. Severin Dahlen, a metallurgist, came into my office a week before the first PK Party and said that he knew how to teach people to bend metal with their minds. He had been working with children at the University of California – Irvine. They had a little boy who could stare at a key and burn a hole through it. Since I was about to have this PK Party, I asked Severin if he would help at the party by giving the metal bending instructions. The instructions he gave at that first PK Party are identical to those still given at PK Parties.

…I gathered 21 people in my home in Huntington Beach, California. Basically, half of them were people I met through the remote viewing research who were interested in psychic types of things. The other half were members of a tennis club I belong to, and they didn’t know much about using their minds. I had stopped at the Sears Company hardware department on the way home that night and purchased a 5/ 16″ steel rod that I could not bend with all my strength. I said to myself, “Boy, if that gets bent, I will be impressed.

…At the first PK Party, we were sitting in a circle and I had passed out my grandparents antique silverware — it has all been dedicated to science now. There was a lot of giggling and laughter because I do not think people believed that this was really going to happen. I don’t think that I thought it was going to happen either. However, I was testing this conceptual model and had to follow through with the experiment. All of a sudden a fourteen-year-old boy had the fork he was holding begin to have the head slowly fall over. He started screaming and yelling; he jumped up out of his chair. That got everyone’s attention so that everyone in the room saw the fork bending over. As I looked around the room, everyone’s eyes were huge as they stared at this boy’s fork. I like to call this an instant, belief system change. All of a sudden, other people found that the silverware they were holding became soft in their hands. They later described it as if the metal became a little warm and felt like putty in their hands. It seems to lose its structure for a few seconds. The metal stays soft for between five and thirty seconds. Here they were, finding what is normally nice hard silverware becoming soft and structureless in their hands. Most of the people in the room then began to wildly bend up the silverware. They were screaming and yelling, and this was a real peak emotional event occurring in my living room. In the middle of all this pandemonium I reached back to my dining room table and grabbed the big steel rod, handed it to the fourteen-year-old boy and said, “Bend this!!” He looked at me and said “I can’t do that.” Then I said “Don’t ever say can’t — that is like putting a block in your mind.” He agreed to try and started rubbing his hand up and down the steel rod. After about five minutes I again heard him yelling. He was jumping up and down in the middle of the living room. With no more force than simply moving his hands while holding the rod over his head, he bent that rod into a 270 degree turn.

…Metal bending works best in a group, as in a party of 15 or more people, especially for your first attempt. I estimate that about 50% of the people who are successful at the PK Parties can bend after the party. With practice, you can learn how to do it at anytime without the group.”

Lawrence of Arabia