Comments on: deconstructing human sensibility…

By: ricardo

ricardo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:06:49 +0000

ah, but then you may well be a kind of King Canute *grin*

By: John Whitley

John Whitley — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:23:24 +0000

I think my main task throughout my life has been to re-construct human sensibility, as a priest, therapist, social worker &C. But this task may require a de-construction first. Gestalt is also known as a de-construct-ive therapy.

By: ricardo

ricardo — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:50:02 +0000

I suspect the human mind might well be able to see this threat off… after all, these threats are all man made and computers, for all their manifold strengths, are nothing more than tools… Of course, if we ever do crack AI – and I am not entirely sure that this feat is within our reach, at least not for quite some time – then that would be a different matter… but, even then, what we would be doing would be creating another species… and that may be more of a boon than a curse… for why should these AIs be any less fascinated than we are in our art, who are themselves an example of it…?

By: millie

millie — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:01:50 +0000

Lol! wow, as I feared, humankind has taken yet another step toward making ourselves and our precious minds utterly and pitifully useless. Digital images passing for art is not bad enough that we must give the judging of aestheticism to an artificial mind that runs in codes of 0 and 1? As a lover of the art, I am afraid that art might be just another aspect of our culture being swallowed by the “advancement” in technological intelligence. Yes, I no longer buy Christmas decoration if you would like to know ^^.

By: ricardo

ricardo — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:31:56 +0000

essentially, I believe that what we are witnessing is the consumerisation of culture – turning everything into commerce with a consequence that even taste is, as you say, standardized…