Beer also reported attempts to induce small organisms, Daphnia collected from a local pond, to ingest iron fillings so that input and output couplings to them could be achieved via magnetic fields, and another attempt to use a population of the protozoon Euglena via optical couplings. Beer’s last attempt in this series was to use not specific organisms but an entire pond ecosystem as a homeostatic controller.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

My man had a brain working in several cosmic multiverses

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Using my one wish to time travel in order to establish Salvador Allende as an eternal socialist dictator, giving Beer bags of bills with a dollar sign on them in order to fuel FALGSC via Patagonian rivers

[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 months ago

Sounds like it. He was into cybernetics and systems theory, anyways.