Sunday, October 13, 2019

Things and People

What are things, you may ask? And to answer this I have to go back to our history to when we came down out of the trees and decided to live on the ground. We learned how to talk to each other about the various things in our world.

Did these things exist before someone thought about them? Do they depend on the existence of Language? Maybe.

A few hundred years ago we were hit by something we call Industrialization that had advanced Machines, and then Electricity and Photography. The result was a culture of different people, different machines, and Wars of amazing proportions, that are still going on.

At the present time, these things are the objects of many programming languages. And we find ourselves wondering if we can teach computers how to think.

And wondering if that is such a good idea.

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