On Artificial Intelligence and Machine Men : Part Three

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On Artificial Intelligence and Machine Men
By Everett A Warren
March 14, 2004

Presented as part three of sixteen

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"We all want to help one another, human beings are like that."

Are we? Or do we see things in our typically binary fashion: us or them; you or me; black or white; Jew or gentile... do we all want to help one another?

There is a tendency to subdivide and create division amongst ourselves – if it does not exist, we create a binary state. In the realm of fast food, you have more than two restaurants, but somehow it seems to come down to Burger King versus McDonald's. There is Coke, and there is Pepsi. Certainly, there are more competitors in the soft drink market, but however they choose on a variety of other beverages, most restaurants must choose to serve one or the other of those two best-selling brands: even when a multiplicity exists, we must chop and cut it down into an A or B choice.

How can we claim to be analogue creatures when everything must fit into such binary imprisonments? When everything becomes a case of success or failure, everything in between becomes noise. Witness the electronics or chemistry experiment: we expect to move something from one state to another, and somewhere in the quality of the solutions and powders and in the inaccuracy of resistors and utter failures of diodes, what we expect to see almost happens... text-book accuracy doesn't exist in the land of noise, and that's where we live.

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