awesome quote from the movie I,Robot
Dr. Alfred Lanning
- Lanning (on Police Recording): Ever since the first computers, there have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more? When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?
- Hologram of Dr. Lanning: I'm sorry, my responses are limited...you must ask the right questions.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/I,_Robot#Dr._Alfred_Lanning
Humanity of Robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-pS0t27-nM&feature=related
I like your post Quan. For me this quote ties in directly to the group discussion we had last Thursday on what makes something organic. It would seem as if the process of computing bits of data instantly defines something into an organic scheme.
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