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No, that's a crass abstraction of what we are. To a philistine the Mona Lisa is nothing but a bunch of pigments applied to a surface. That's what makes him a p
by michaelgrafl 13y ago
No, that's a crass abstraction of what we are.
To a philistine the Mona Lisa is nothing but a bunch of pigments applied to a surface. That's what makes him a philistine, after all.
- kryten 13y agoIt's an apt description of what we are. Only we think we are more. Perhaps we're not and the thought is just part of that feedback loop. Art, wine, music, maths. It's all just more inputs...
- michaelgrafl 13y agoIt's a marginal description of what we are. It takes a true nerd living in a nerd bubble to interpret a human being as a data processing device.
- kryten 13y agoI think you mean your perception is that my description is marginal, which is my point. We're just maths if you go far enough down. So are machines.