If This, then That, cont. would do, They simply input a signal into Their “brain” and let it take the course man had chosen for it. The signals came from the tools man gave Them. Their eyes were photo receptors man had made to convert incoming light into electrical signals, the same as the eyes nature made for its upper-level animals. Different light, also known as color, produced different signals and so the “brains” of Them could see, enabling Them to react. The reaction was whatever the electrical signal triggered. In the above example, the signal was the orientation of the objects on a conveyor belt and the reaction was the turning of the claw to grab the object in the correct way. Other additions were made to these second-generation Machines. Concepts from first-generation ones still dominated the Machine as a whole. Signals without variation still remained the vast majority of movements They made, the same as the generation before. These signals were sent in the background. An uneducated man would not have seen where they came from or what they did, but these signals made up over 90 percent of all the ones sent. If you must know of an example it is the equivalent to your unconscious nervous system, working behind the scenes to keep everything running smoothly. Second generations developed into a world of Their own. They surpassed the conceivable limits of the time and went on to change the world as everyone knew it. They were still held by the bounds of the human mind and what it could think. Therein lay the difference between the second and third generations. Second-gen needed humans to contruct Their “neural” pathways and come up with more ways to detect Jana Coffeen, 10 signals. That humans did, adding first the signals. That humans did, adding first the signals they could get, then some from other animals and lastely any signal thought to be beneficial. Any piece of information a human could get through one tool or another, so could a second-gen Machine. They we-ren’t Machines anymore though. They had, somewhere so could a second-gen Machine. They we-ren’t Machines anymore though. They had, somewhere during the development of the second-gen, become what you may know them as, Robots. Yes, this is the time that name came about but I do not dignify Them with a name. They do not deserve one nor need one and I pass along this piece of advice to you, erase that word from your vocabulary. You never saw first hand what They did, but They are the cause of everything.
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