Please enjoy your stay on Planet Earth. - Gran calavera eléctrica (“Grand electric skull”,...

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Ancient language, lost to the modern day. Largely undecipherable.

So this got me to thinking . . . what if machines do have a subconscious of their own? What if machines right now are like human babies, which have brains but no way of expressing themselves except screaming (crashing)? What would a machine's subconscious look like? How does it feed off what we give it? If machines could talk to us, what would they say?

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Gran calavera eléctrica (“Grand electric skull”, 1900–13) by José Guadalupe Posada, which depicts a large skeleton hypnotizing a group of calaveras, with an electric street car, with skeletons as passengers, in the background.

(via Wikipedia Picture of the Day)

“Grand Electric Skull” would be a good name for a rock band.

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