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Untitled DocumentHomeProject DescriptionOverviewTechnologyPhysical SpecificsDrawingsPeopleWorkshopsPhilosophyMotivationMechabolic HypothesisLogisticsBudgetSafetyTimelineClean UpContactThe Mechabolic Hypothesis: Cyborg Speculations in Machine Metabolism(the mechabolic hypothesis started from a series of email exchanges in the fall and winter of 06. excerpts from the conversationare copied below.)Sent: 9/21/06From jim masonTo: xxxxxxxSubject: a thesis?. . . which begs a thesis i have been playing with for a couple months.i think you might find it curious. here's the gist.the more i play with all the biomass based fuel things and theirrelated combustion machines, the more i'm realizing all this as thethird leg of the grand artificial life project of replicatingourselves: the other two being mechanical robotics and AI as digitalmachine intelligence/cognition.this bio immitative metabolic project is seldom called out as such,but it is the core project of the history of development of heatengines, and the various fuels that have been used to power them. allof which are ultimately solar radiation endothermically sprung intocabrohydrates/hydrocarbons, which are then unspring exothermicallythrough oxidation back to heat and co2. which then is restructuredback into biomass again through photosynthesis.http://whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/mechabolicthesis.html (1 of 9) [10/9/2008 08:16:56]