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.

This is how we create life

Log = word, thought, speech
Logic = sequence of facts, arrangement of circuits, proceeding automatically in a series
Automatic = self-acting
To program = to outline a series of operations to be performed
Reproduction = to copy & pass on information
Communication = to exchange information
Log on = to establish communication

A complex, interrelated series of parts.

A human being.

A computer.




I programmed this poem.