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10 commentsFriday, July 11, 2008

Automated Content Will Unmake Existence

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By Y V Chawla (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/31/2008 - 12:24

There is no

There is no programmer.

There is only program.

Y V Chawla

http://www.fundamentalexpressions.com

By Tracey Pharoah (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/17/2008 - 03:20

... and so say all of us!

It's great to find real people who are still prepared to write their own words! Keep the passion alive...

By universalcommons (WPN reader) - Sun, 07/13/2008 - 19:00

I read your article via my email and found it interesting enough to check this Phil Parker out. I found that in the end the Humanities and the Arts are under no threat of attack. Actualy none of his books are fictional and none are stories at all, but reports on matters of interest to governments, banks and corporations.

At one point he commented that "I would never try to programme a computer that would write the Harry Potter series"..."the amount of time needed to write a programme would be longer then the human writing the book."

I do find it amusing that I am being required to solve a mathematical equation in order to verify my humanity and post my comment :)

By LinksAndTraffic (WPN reader) - Sun, 07/13/2008 - 14:24

Eloquent and Accurate Assessment

I have been telling the same story for years, although not in ways quite as eloquent as your telling of the story.

Thank you for the telling. When someone with your reputation and your clout tells the story, other people may actually sit up and take notice.

Frequently, when I rant against letting computers replace human writers, I get the feelings that my words on falling on deaf ears.

It is my hope that with your telling, more people will sit up and take notice.

Thank you for sharing.

Bill Platt - author

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sun, 07/13/2008 - 00:31

Mind is programmed

The human mind is programmed. Whether it lives in a crowded place or jumps to the moon or discovers newer and newer technologies, it is all within the programmed structure. It is always acting from a sense of lack. To see through the programming, to rent apart this lack ends the whole game.

The follwing web site may be of interest to you

http://www.fundamentalexpressions.com

Y V Chawla

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sat, 07/12/2008 - 19:31

Computers Understanding Meaning

I really like your article. It says something that I have been saying for a long time... that certain things are not found and won't be found in quarks or muons... not even in the dirt actually... God, Love, Hope, Inspiration... little things like that.

But I think you have happened upon one that will really give Science a bit of a fit... the Meaning of things.

I see no reason to read any of those 200,000 books either. Would I learn something I didn't know if I did? I doubt it.

While I search for the Meaning of my own existence and the more profound question... the Meaning of the existence of the Ones I Love and Who Love Me, searching for the place to give Hope for my Fellow Man, believing the Inspiration to tell all will come to me when I have an answer... all point to one other thing.

The Chief Programmer who never needed a computer to create or analyze things. He just did it.

Ironically He used matter and anti-matter to make the place that provides the Meaning for the rest of us.

I imagine an anti-matter Scientist is at this very moment looking at the anti-matter stuff and trying to to figure out what it Means.

I imagine the same anti-matter Scientist believes in Love and Hope and all the other things that make us who we are without questioning their existence at all. Maybe his are anti-love or anti-hope but they are the same things to him that Love and Hope are to us.

The anti-matter Scientist does know one thing though. If he gets together with us matter folks... we will all go poof.

What's the meaning of that?

Good job, Jason.

Mikie

By Jim (WPN reader) - Sat, 07/12/2008 - 14:03

Algorithms

Thanks for an interesting read, Jason.

If you're interested, it's worth reading about Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorems (proved in 1931!) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorems for an introduction) which show that in mathematical systems based on a fixed set of rules (even ordinary arithmetic is such a system) there are true statements that cannot be proved using just the rules of the system.

To prove such statements requires the addition of new rules to the system. And that requires creativity.

As computers in their present form work with strict rules, this means that there are lots of things that they cannot 'see'.

So your job is safe. Until someone invents a computer that doesn't run with a fixed set of rules ...

By Karras (WPN reader) - Sat, 07/12/2008 - 10:04

Thank you, Jason.

For a beautifully written article. My response is similar to Plotdog's. I'd like to make a copy of your article and place it in my Newsroom, of course with a link to you. Unfortunately time does not allow me to do this, so please get this article placed in as many places as you possibly can. It is that good.

By PlotDog (WPN reader) - Fri, 07/11/2008 - 23:00

Stumbled you

This was a great post. It hits lots of my interests and perspectives. Sometimes I feel like the machine when I write and it flows, but I don't want to be the machine.

I would love to have you post your work to our guest authors section of the plotdog press blot. http://plotdog.com. I think it will speak to our readers.

PlotDog

By Reverend Colin (WPN reader) - Sat, 07/12/2008 - 18:28

Great Essay

I usually skim over these newsletter and was doing just that...reading a partial sentence here and there and wondered...what he hell is he talking about.

I read the article and found it not only an interesting prospective but....it explain many of the questions I've been mentally juggling.

Excellent.,

Thanks