Friday, October 8, 2010

Mechanic Sentience

It's not that computers reveal themselves as computers by failing to approximate the way that humans answer questions: they reveal themselves as computers by failing to approximate the way that humans fail to answer questions.

Asking someone a direct question is like firing a cannonball at the ocean: Scattered speech splashes in alarm; the question submerges under placid immaculate surface, cannonball sinking to ocean floor, black, buried, silent, but present, displacing water & the currents of thought.

Listen to machines.

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