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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Thursday, October 1, 2009
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Commercialism of love is a relational element that should be disregarded as being necessary in one's quest for true love. To be in true love, an intrinsic value alone should be enough to gain the experience with another person. This is not to say that gifts should not be accepted but it should be said that the intrinsic value should be the core structure that a relationship of this magnitude should have. Infatuation should not be a matter of convenience, therefore, a true love can never just be a passion of convenience for in order for one to be in an environment of true love one must have the informational code that incorporates that space. One must pay attention to the versions of love that may negatively associate one's perceptions of specifications that implement love in many ways and avoid that negativity. To "score points" in the direction of true love, one must positively look at the standards which move one up across the board. In order to fully appreciate this hands on experience of the environment should be tried out.
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