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To be in love is to create a religion whose god is fallible.1 –André Maurois If a machine is expe... more To be in love is to create a religion whose god is fallible.1 –André Maurois If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.2 –Alan Turing Amore e ‘l cor gentil sono una cosa (Love and a gentle heart are but one thing).3 –Dante Alighieri The history of the concept of love is linked to physicalistic descriptions of its chemistry and biology or to a transcendental plane of ideas thus leaving it cloaked in an enigma. My attempt here is to redescribe love’s traditional enigma in terms of its ‘black box,’ namely, through examining the computability of love in reference to Alan Turing’s work on intelligent machines and its analysis in an alternative way to the anthropocentric conception of love. I will discuss Turing and P-Type (pain and pleasure) and B-Type (brain) Machines; love, computability and free will; computation and concepts of the sublime in relation to love; and black boxism and computational transcendentalism.
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Aesthetics of Future Chapter 1: The Virtual Body Chapter 2: ... more Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Aesthetics of Future Chapter 1: The Virtual Body Chapter 2: Robots That Have Art Chapter 3: Unimodernism, Or the Aesthetics of Permanent Present Chapter 4: The Kantian philosophy of Twitter Chapter 5: Identifying and Intercting: Notes on the Architecture of the Visual Brain Interlude Mneem Part II: Future of Aesthetics Chapter 6: Aesthetics and Kinesthetics in Performance Chapter 7: Artifice, or a New Nature: Toward a Philosophy of the Automation Chapter 8: Aesthetics and Transcoding. De-Accelerating the Photographic Image Chapter 9: Ruins. Reflections on Aggression and Destruction in Aesthetics Chapter 10: About the "Anything Goes" in Art Chapter 11: The Changing Canvas of the City Bibliography Index About the Authors
Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, 2004
To be in love is to create a religion whose god is fallible.1 –André Maurois If a machine is expe... more To be in love is to create a religion whose god is fallible.1 –André Maurois If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.2 –Alan Turing Amore e ‘l cor gentil sono una cosa (Love and a gentle heart are but one thing).3 –Dante Alighieri The history of the concept of love is linked to physicalistic descriptions of its chemistry and biology or to a transcendental plane of ideas thus leaving it cloaked in an enigma. My attempt here is to redescribe love’s traditional enigma in terms of its ‘black box,’ namely, through examining the computability of love in reference to Alan Turing’s work on intelligent machines and its analysis in an alternative way to the anthropocentric conception of love. I will discuss Turing and P-Type (pain and pleasure) and B-Type (brain) Machines; love, computability and free will; computation and concepts of the sublime in relation to love; and black boxism and computational transcendentalism.
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Aesthetics of Future Chapter 1: The Virtual Body Chapter 2: ... more Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Aesthetics of Future Chapter 1: The Virtual Body Chapter 2: Robots That Have Art Chapter 3: Unimodernism, Or the Aesthetics of Permanent Present Chapter 4: The Kantian philosophy of Twitter Chapter 5: Identifying and Intercting: Notes on the Architecture of the Visual Brain Interlude Mneem Part II: Future of Aesthetics Chapter 6: Aesthetics and Kinesthetics in Performance Chapter 7: Artifice, or a New Nature: Toward a Philosophy of the Automation Chapter 8: Aesthetics and Transcoding. De-Accelerating the Photographic Image Chapter 9: Ruins. Reflections on Aggression and Destruction in Aesthetics Chapter 10: About the "Anything Goes" in Art Chapter 11: The Changing Canvas of the City Bibliography Index About the Authors
Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, 2004