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- From: ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny)
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book? WHY?
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:44:09 GMT
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- kathyj@pyramid.COM (Kathy Johnson ) writes:
- >|> The human author isn't writing the book. It's the parents who birthed
- >|> and raised him that write the book.
- >It's the all powerful being who created the first human that writes the book.
-
- The CHICKEN wrote the book (or was that the egg?)...
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- My $.02 is that computer programs writing books is substancially
- disassociated with "random word pulling" in that the program (if well
- written and meticulous) has an inset series of associations and tangents
- of which some are "woven into" it's fabric and others are merely happy
- biproducts of the program...dynamics and phenomenon.
-
- There's no doubt the programmer influences the writing of the book, just
- as environment and nature influence the writing of all books, but I
- think it's safe to say that the computer IS writing books.
-
- I guess this type of thinking hinges on the belief that humans are,
- themselves, computers.
-
- ...e
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