Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Frank Zappa said that broken hearts are for...

The heart is a pump metaphor.

Hofstader establishes some AI ideals as formalizing thought away from its current medium.
Thought as a platonic ideal is out there. It just happens to currently only manifest in the brain. The holy grail of AI, is to reproduce it outside of the grey-gooey.

The heart is a pump. Who needs hearts when you have pumps?

The artificial heart produces no pulse.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/17523/

Poe, his pit and his pendulum would have no issue with guilty onomatopoeia.

An issue alarms us, a heart that does not pulse? Still a heart?
A machine that does not respond to adrenaline?
That does not increase in tempo in the presence of a loved one?
Does not deliver more oxygen to the escaping prey?

The heart is more than a pump.
We need more than a pump.
Or our robots will turn against us.

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