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?).
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.