today i thought, ‘there’s definitely a reason why its called ‘artificial intelligence’ and not just ‘intelligence,’ right?’
this new spectrum, and it might be a little forced or fabricated at this point — forgive me, i’m still trying to figure it out — this spectrum moves from robots to puppets, or maybe even the other way ’round, not sure
it might have to do, also, with the concept of animation and emotional attachment — anthropomorphism or personification, maybe — but i think, once again, i am purposefully mixing materialism with emotional dynamics, moving from the inanimate as a puppet — puppets need a human operator to move and voice a personality / persona / character in live, real-time performance scenarios — to the animate as a robot — robots are programmed to simulate certain sequences of movement via algorithm, code, conditionals and variables, robots are pre-coded, pre-destined to do everything they do, including any simulation of emotion or surprise, any sense of real humanness — there are also more utilitarian and entertainment-based devicery such as our smartphones, tablets, laptops and numerous omnipresent, ubiquitous electronic accoutrements and extensions of our solely human capabilities, and these inventions seem to live somewhere between the world of puppets and robots, we also seem to believe these non-living things actually have human traits and feelings ( for instance, when a laptop displays a spinner icon to indicate the system is slow, its actually not working efficiently enough, not behaving or performing up to modernday speedy standards of ultra convenience, we say that the laptop is ‘thinking’ — we all, however, know this is complete and utter nonsense — the laptop is in NO WAY ‘thinking’ in any human sense of the notion of ‘thinking’ — its processing, and its processing slowly at that ) — and then there are people, and we also seem to live in some betweenSpace or periphery amongst these machines and toys we constantly introduce into the technohumanic post-natural ecosystem, this wonderful posthuman uncanny valley we constantly cultivate like a gardenful of overgrown wires and wireless technologies
people are natural meaning-making machines — i believe we’re not machines at all, but we do have this natural ability to try and make sense of it all, we fill in the gaps, we humanize almost every problem we can’t seem to fathom a possible alternate explanation for — we extend our internal emotionality, through live action puppetry or through programmatic simulation of real, human character and philosophic reason — we magically ( and mutually ) possess these things of interaction we invent and use on a daily basis, and they possess us back — so what’s the real heirarchy / taxonomy / array of items to consider in this spectrum of intelligence?
