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I created the "Produce Consume Robot" as a scale model prototype of a cybernetic organism to succeed humans as the dominant species of earth and beyond. His functions, including parroting "produce... consume..." ad infinitum and performing repetitive menial motions, have been distilled from otherwise frivolous human behaviors to support maximal expansion of The Economy. Until mass-production is  fully operative, the prototype Produce Consume Robot will stand as a mascot for our society and a role model for our children.  
 
  Lessons Learned:
In the process of making the Produce Consume Robot I learned some interesting lessons for creating robots to succeed us.

Mind/Body Separation
It quickly became clear that it was necessary to create a mind/body separation. If the brain and body were powered from the same source, surges in the power consumption of the body would reset the brain, causing the body to flail out of control and break off the arms.
 
The Source of Free Will
The Produce Consume Robot was intended to be entirely deterministic, parroting exactly what he has heard while moving about. However, observation revealed that when the body is set in motion, the robot develops what I heretofore term "free will". Instead of repeating commands, he turns it into a sample for a free expression jam. I have yet to fully determine what the source of free will is, but my best guess would be an induction between the body and the mind circuitry (Maybe the soul?).



 
 
 

 

 

 
Free Will Leads to Over-Consumption
The induction of free will that accompanies attaching the mind to the body leads to an increased expression of consumption behavior. This over-consumption slowly drains the mind power until the body flails out of control and breaks off the arms.

Federal Regulation Prevents Catastrophe
I discovered it was possible to prevent this catastrophic breakdown with a fail-safe switch I've termed "federal regulation", which prevents the twisting of the body from overextending beyond the critical point in its revolution.
 
 
 
I modeled the Produce Consume Robot as closely as possible to its human counterpart, the Produce Consume Human. Sensory feedback signals from the periphery (SPDT momentary pushbutton switches) terminate in the sensory-motor cortex (NAND gates wired to flip-flop). The sensory-motor cortex projects to the posterior cerebellar cortices (DPDT relays), which control the direction of limb/torso motor output. A frontal timing circuit (tlc555) controls the flashing of the eyes and the timing of speech produced from the left hemisphere Broca-Wernicke's chip (extracted from a Radioshack picture frame recorder). Sensory-motor connections between the body and the mind are predominantly connected via a central signaling pathway resembling the human spinal cord that runs down the midline of the back.
 

 
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