Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read your article with some amusement and considerable skepticism. The human brain--mind, soul, consciousness--is molded and shaped by the environment to which it is exposed from birth to death. I can just imagine the hard drive of my office computer coming to life after working hours and carrying on conversations and relationships with the other computers. Should I be prepared for an infant computer beeping gleefully beside its mother some morning? This reminds me of the fantasy stories I used to tell my daughter about how her dolls came to life and had fun after the lights went...
...There's something deep inside every human. It's called the soul," Abbott said. "Chevy has the power to touch the soul deep inside each and every...
Finally, I resolved to contact my house User Assistant. She was upbeat for awhile, but it soon became clear that the soul of my precious hard drive seemed to be gone. I took a deep breath and re-installed the system disks, effectively creating a blank slate. The next day, a friend was able to retrieve a few of the important files using "Disk Doctor" and a little magic. That took an hour, and sapped my will to keep trying...
...their work was that clear, sharp pictures could still have something unearthly about them--when considered in high detail (and in the proper frame of mind) even a patch of moss can look like a message from God, or a projection of the unconscious, or an emblem of the soul. With Callahan, it's not always clear just which of those directions he's pointed in. He hasn't been much inclined to publish long statements of philosophical intent. But he manages all the same to imply that there's more at stake in his pictures than meets...
...SHOW WHAT COMPUTERS CANNOT DO, match one with a poet. If the machine has any intelligence, it will say nolo contendere. The computer should compete with Seamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate poet, not with a chess master like Kasparov. This doesn't mean that Heaney has a "soul" and the machine does not. It means that nature's thinkers--humans, with their art, humor and compassion--can be mimicked by science but never matched. Not now. Not ever. DANIEL C. MAGUIRE Milwaukee, Wisconsin...