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Think about Dreaming. "seeing" during a dream state works by experiencing pure data representation of the real world. People fluent in lucid dreaming can tell y
by rasz_pl 12y ago
Think about Dreaming. "seeing" during a dream state works by experiencing pure data representation of the real world. People fluent in lucid dreaming can tell you something funny happens when you try to thorough examine objects while sleeping. Constructed worlds tend to be skin deep, and fall apart when poked. Everything is build with ideas drawn from your experience.
Its Plato's Allegory of the Cave all the way down.
Imagine "watching" a movie compressed using your very own prior knowledge. Every scene could be described in couple of hundred lines of plaintext. Today we do this by reading a book :) What if we could build an algorithm able to render movies from books?
- throwawaymaroon 12y agoI don't see that the question of that algorithm's existence is any different from cheatsheet's original connection to a question that might have no or many answers.
- sedachv 12y ago> What if we could build an algorithm able to render movies from books? Bob Coyne has been working on a system for generating images of still scenes from text descriptions for about 15 years now: https://www.wordseye.com/ https://www.wordseye.com/ http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~coyne/papers/wordseye_siggraph.pdf http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~coyne/papers/wordseye_siggraph.p...
- TheGrassyKnoll 12y agoFascinating Captain, machine intelligence meets philosophy. "The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so..." Carlos Castaneda
- digi_owl 12y agoMakes me think of Vocaloid.