True Love is digital! If something can be represented in ones and zeros, then it must be by default a digital representation. So what is true love? Maybe what we are looking at can be quantified and maybe not, maybe the simple act of quantifying something as miraculous as love can be considered wrong. In the story True Love, Asimov attempts to use Milton's brain to figure out what true love would be. The question is, should we be attempting to put an emotion into a defined boundary. A good example of this is a few of my ex-girlfriends, they could be considered analytical and often questioned what love actually entails. These girls, and to be fair it was really one in particular continually asked what love is. However, I have to ask, are you defining love as actions that occur or are you going for a feeling that you have. If it's an action, then I believe love will have a wide range of definitions. One person may see love as being the act of giving something tangible or taking care of someone through physical means. Implications for believing love is directly linked to something physical are abundant. A good example of a negative to believing such a thing is the inability to give something of worth. Often times when objects are given as the sole love interest, then the worth of the object will have a direct correlation to the amount the giver has for the receiver (in the receiver's mind). Obviously this can cause huge problems for people that have a money issue, but beyond that the giver may not even know the person he/she loves is looking at the present in such a way. To the giver it could very well represent nothing other than it is nice to give, and the receiver will enjoy it. I know a lot of people are probably in a fit of argument-al outbreaks, however wait a moment and hear me out. All I'm really trying to say is true love is not something that can be shown through presents and when it is the probability of a let down is imminent.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
True Love From a Computer
Hey,
Its me again looking at true love from another point of view, the computer. Assuming we had a computer that would base true love after something, what on earth would that something be? Judging from True Love by Isaac Asimov it appears he has already given this some thought. Computers are machines that must put everything in the terms of 1's and 0's , so how would they categorize true love? We can start of with a bases from Asimov and assume that a computer would probably first categorize looks and other physical appeals, such as intellect. In this instance we can think of intellect as a physical form because Isaac Asimov is referencing the IQ which is based mostly off of ones general knowledge. So a computer would potentially put the physical symmetry of the body as well as the overall IQ into two categories to check. Personally I think attempting to categorize True Love is inherently going to end in failure, however we must look at it from the computers perspective in order to take away some of its allusiveness.
On a side note, I think an over intellectual thought process involving True Love could potentially cause disaster in a relationship because people might actual hit upon some of the reasons they were attracted to each other in the first place and confuse themselves into second guessing their relationship. Sometimes we just need to be happy that people are people and that True Love is not always going to be a direct correlation to that happiness we initially feel.
Anyway, back on point the basic analysis here is this: When intellectualizing True Love we are forced to categorize it like a computer. I think I will attempt this in another post. :)
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Its me again looking at true love from another point of view, the computer. Assuming we had a computer that would base true love after something, what on earth would that something be? Judging from True Love by Isaac Asimov it appears he has already given this some thought. Computers are machines that must put everything in the terms of 1's and 0's , so how would they categorize true love? We can start of with a bases from Asimov and assume that a computer would probably first categorize looks and other physical appeals, such as intellect. In this instance we can think of intellect as a physical form because Isaac Asimov is referencing the IQ which is based mostly off of ones general knowledge. So a computer would potentially put the physical symmetry of the body as well as the overall IQ into two categories to check. Personally I think attempting to categorize True Love is inherently going to end in failure, however we must look at it from the computers perspective in order to take away some of its allusiveness.
On a side note, I think an over intellectual thought process involving True Love could potentially cause disaster in a relationship because people might actual hit upon some of the reasons they were attracted to each other in the first place and confuse themselves into second guessing their relationship. Sometimes we just need to be happy that people are people and that True Love is not always going to be a direct correlation to that happiness we initially feel.
Anyway, back on point the basic analysis here is this: When intellectualizing True Love we are forced to categorize it like a computer. I think I will attempt this in another post. :)
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
True Love By Isaac Asimov
Continuing my discussion of True Love By Isaac Asimov
The story of true love coming from the point of view of Isaac Asimov is definitely a unique one. Set in some indeterminate time in the future, Asimov develops quickly our view of the current events. The future is seen through the eyes of one man, but only in glimpses, his name is Milton Davidson. The feel I get when reading the story about Milton is the future is not much more advanced than our current society. I have come to this conclusion based off of the performance abilities of computers in the story, they are extremely important in everyday life and probably have a certain amount of artificial intelligence. However, computers in True Love are on the verge of human potential as we can tell from the Joe. Isaac Asimov has created the computer, Joe, that has the ability to talk. However it is interesting to note that Asimov states the computer has learned to talk based after his creator. We can easily see where Asimov is heading in True Love with his reference to a computer that has started off learning human abilities by mimicking the human though process.
More on this topic in the future, for now I gotta run.
Go here for a summary of True Love By Isaac Asimov
The story of true love coming from the point of view of Isaac Asimov is definitely a unique one. Set in some indeterminate time in the future, Asimov develops quickly our view of the current events. The future is seen through the eyes of one man, but only in glimpses, his name is Milton Davidson. The feel I get when reading the story about Milton is the future is not much more advanced than our current society. I have come to this conclusion based off of the performance abilities of computers in the story, they are extremely important in everyday life and probably have a certain amount of artificial intelligence. However, computers in True Love are on the verge of human potential as we can tell from the Joe. Isaac Asimov has created the computer, Joe, that has the ability to talk. However it is interesting to note that Asimov states the computer has learned to talk based after his creator. We can easily see where Asimov is heading in True Love with his reference to a computer that has started off learning human abilities by mimicking the human though process.
More on this topic in the future, for now I gotta run.
Go here for a summary of True Love By Isaac Asimov
True Love by Isaac Asimov
So, recently I read the short story True Love by Isaac Asimov. I just wanted to write a quick post regarding it because I enjoy most of Asimov's stories and this is no exception. True Love is about a man named Milton Davis, he is a computer programmer in the future. Milton is a man that has been unlucky when it comes to true love and as a result he has decided he will use his prototype computer Joe to help him. Milton has created Joe to have the ability to speak, and it is stated that Joe has the ability because he has been programmed based off of the human brain. This is the first step in the process of making a machine act more like humans, and giving it personality. Isaac Asimov has set up the rest of the story through foreshadowing to show a computer could possibly one day have the same actions as a person. Continuing on in the story Asimov continues to break down the rules of the computer system that Milton is using. The first example of the rule breakdown happened when Davis decided he wanted to meet the women that were narrowed down by the search he performed. Davis knows the best way to meet the women would be to have them work with him, so he programs Joe to have the ability to break one of the rules of the univac (the computer system of the world). Again, we can see the progression of more human like behaviors of Joe in True Love because he now has the ability to break the rules.
I will be discussing the story in the future, but if you want to go check out a summary of True Love you can. So, go read the story or at least look at the summary because it is great.
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I will be discussing the story in the future, but if you want to go check out a summary of True Love you can. So, go read the story or at least look at the summary because it is great.
Related Topics: True Love By Isaac Asimov
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