Sunday, February 24, 2008

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above is a drawing of America.

2.A philosophical discussion
There is a test called the Turring test and it says that if a computer can successfully take place in a discussion like email, and convcingly fool the human, than it can be said to have "intelligence". But really what is our intelligence. Why is the ability to conversate decided to be a proof of it. I had a question the other day about someone's name and try and try as I could I could not remember what the name was. The interesting thing with a name is that you either know it or you don't. Its not like you half know it with half the letters or half the sound. We name everything around us and if they didn't have names then we would have to (re?)learn about them everyday. My name 4example is Rocky Dynamic. We use these names and signs. But i think we are also fooled by the names and signs as if those names and signs have a consciousness themselves. We don't have a turring test with them but I think we assume that they contain a certain amount of intelligence. they are products of people but also creations with their own lives to live. and who is to say also that the inanimate objects around us are not 'aware' of us as we are of them. i think they can pass some tests of being aware of us. and also we attribute a human quality to electronic music subconscioulsy we are constantly anthropomorphing everything around us. So isn't it true that in our way of understanding those things could more accurately be described as part of us than anything else that we could accurately understand. Like that we coiuld have understand the conciousness of a black cat. Because we just don't BE CatLIke in any of our powers. The language is what we do have, the words and names, which would be different from the squeeks of nature. Could you jjust create a universe by naming it.

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