Is there an alternative to human cloning?

The MCon robotic system may lead to an android that has humanlike experiential intelligence and that looks and behaves like a human being.

MCon has the capability to build a “conscious”, volitional, “emotional” brain. We propose a massive system engineering project to integrate the MCon-brain into the body of an android. The android body must be designed and build by reverse engineering the human somatic muscular system and the autonomic organic system. We have the system engineering expertise to undertake such a project. Would YOU join us in this undertaking?

Relational Robotic Controller (RRC patent granted 2003): A "brain" module for the control of locomotive behavior. Leads to the design of volitional, multi-tasking robots that are guided by the top level specification of the system, known as a Hierarchical Task Diagram. The tasks of the HTD are prioritized and selected by a motivational system for the robot called a Task Selector Module. The HTD and the TSM are totally specified (programmed) by the designer.

RRC designed, obstacle-avoiding robots may be designed to be household servants, mail-delivery robots, taxicab drivers, car, train, boat and plane drivers, and in general to perform any set of top level task objectives that can be programmed into the HTD and TSM.

RRC-designed systems are conscious, emotionally motivated robotic system. The top level specification of the RRC robot is determined autonomously. The Primary task objective is assumed to be Darwinian Survival, and the RRC robot must learn to perform the lower tasks on a Darwinian HTD autonomously. The search for Darwinian survival tasks leads to the design of the consciousness mechanism and the hedonic-emotional motivational system in the brain.

The engineering design of the android’s robotic body and sensors requires the support of cognitive neural scientists, biochemists and physicians specializing in internal medicine, orthopedics, cardiovascular, digestive, and pulmonary systems, and engineers specializing in energy transduction, mechanical design, optical design, audition, motor/engine design, chemical-structural engineering, spectrometry, bioelectricity and biomagnetism.

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