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Produce Consume
The "Produce Consume Robot" was created in order to extract the most essential aspects of human behavior from the otherwise futile activities of man.

His functions include repeating "PRODUCE... CONSUME..." and performing repetitive menial motions that support maximal expansion of the economy.
 
 
  The Mind/Body Problem
In the process of making the Produce Consume Robot, several interesting lessons were learned about navigating the mind/body connection of our robot successors. For example, if the mind and body circuitry derived power from the same source, it appeared to create a metaphysical power struggle, leading to surges of electricity that would reset the brain and cause the body to flail out of control and break off the arms (see picture on left).
 
 
The Source of Free Will
The Produce Consume Robot was intended to be entirely deterministic, repeating "PRODUCE, CONSUME, PRODUCE, CONSUME, ..." ad infinitum while moving about. However, observation revealed (see video below) that when the body and the mind are activated in concert, the robot develops what is heretofore termed "free will". Instead of repeating "PRODUCE, CONSUME," he begins to freestyle rap in an unpredictable fashion, creating new forms of expression. The precise source of free will has yet to be determined, but the best hypothesis is an induction between the body and the mind circuitry (maybe this is the soul?).

 

 

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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. Note in the above video that when the body is activated the robot's behavior changes from "PRODUCE, CONSUME, ..." to "CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, PRODUCE, CONSUME, CONSUME, ...". This over-consumption pacifies and slowly drains the mind power until the desires of the body overwhelm the mind and the body flails out of control and breaks off the arms.
 
 
Government Regulation Prevents Catastrophe
To prevent this free will driven over-consumption behavior (a mind-body OTC derivative) from catastrophically distorting the produce consume market cycle, a fail-safe switch was created and termed "governmental regulation". This fail-safe prevents the imbalances of top-heavy power stratification from generating an uprising that would otherwise lead to unconstrained revolution and breaking off the arms.
 
 
Neuroscientific Principals
The Produce Consume Robot was modeled closely after human neuroscientific organizational principals. 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 (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. It is hoped that these superficial similarities between humans and the Produce Consume Robot will highlight the lessons that can be learned from him.
 
 
A Prophet Before His Time
Since his creation in 2005, the Produce Consume Robot has been spreading his message of impending economic collapse from unregulated mind/body free will driven over-consumption behavior. His relevance has been questioned. He has been stifled by governmental and non-governmental agencies alike. But in the wake of the greatest economic recession since the 1930's he soldiers on, like a prophet before his time, to preach his lessons to any who will listen.

The Produce Consume Robot is shown at right with his creator in the October 2008 debut gallery showing at Fish With Braids Gallery, Jersey City, NJ. Upon opening of the show, the stock market crashed and world economy entered the great recession (below), as predicted by the Produce Consume Robot.
 
 
 
 
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