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exactphilosophy
Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:37:54 CST alt.astrology.moderated
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When I registered this e-mail with groups.web-search.com this
morning (2005-10-23 ca. 07:50 Zurich, 05:50 UTC), I was asked to enter a word displayed on an image (to prevent automatic registrations). Usually that word is nonsense, but this time the word was "turing" (really!). Fits very well with what I had in mind (something about Venus and reflection and maybe other things that I am not aware at the moment, but might come out now via that hint). So let me write while I surf around... Alan Turing was born 1912-06-23 02:15 London 02:15 UTC, with the northern lunar node at 17*54 Aries, conjunct the nodes now (and conjunct my MC at 14* and moon at 17*18). Alan Turing is maybe most famous for his "Turing Test", a setup aimed at expermentally determining intelligence: Somebody is sitting at a computer terminal and can type questions. The other side (a human being, a computer, a space alien, etc.) can send a response. If the querent cannot prove that the responses are sent from a machine, the replies are defined as intelligent, at least as intelligent as the querent. This relates also to the computer program ELIZA: : Pisces combine the very complex with the very simple. : The computer program Eliza, an early program that tried : to produce artificial intelligence, got very far with : very simple means; it was essentially a mirror, like : the surface of the sea. If you typed "X are Y", it would : typically respond "Why do you think that X are Y ?" or : if you mentioned, say, your mother, it would ask you to : tell it more about your family, and often it would just : ask you to go on. Surprisingly, many people experienced : Eliza (who they thought was a real person typing the : answers) to understand them and to feel with them, : something that hardly any of the much more complex : computer programs of today has ever achieved. archive...
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