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We are made out of digits. Digits?
Digits. We are made out of digits. Digits?
There's no doubt about it. We took George's body to the Lab, after he had a Transistor
Failure and probed him all the way through. He was completely digit. Zeros and Ones were
purring out of his wires. We needed to transfuse 3 litres of Zeros and Ones to keep him alive.
That's how we found out. That's impossible. What about the senses,
the vision, the smell, the touch, the hunger, the thirst, the emotions we have?
We use all those quasi-humane actions and postures but they belong to them. We belong
to them. They put their humane characteristics into us, they even put into us this metadata
information that is called consciousness which makes us believe that we are human, just like
them. So who made us?
They made us. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Humans made us.
That's ridiculous. How can humans make a digital being? You're asking me to believe that we
are made by humans, but that we are not humans. Yes.
So we have no brain? Oh, there's a brain all right. It's just that
the brain is made out of digits! That's what I've been trying to tell you.
So ... what does the thinking? You're not understanding, are you? You're
refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The digital software does the thinking. The
digits. Thinking digits! You're asking me to believe
in thinking digits! Yes, thinking digits! Conscious digits! Loving
digits. Dreaming digits. The digits is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture
or do I have to start all over? Omigod. You're serious then. We are made out
of digits. Thank you. Finally. Yes. We are indeed made
out of digits. And we have been trying to get in touch with them [the humans] for almost
a hundred of their years. We thought we could have kids with them, a family, be friends
with them, have fun with them, just because they made us believe, with all these metadata,
that we are one of them! Omigod. So what does this digit have in mind?
First it wants us to behave and think as humans. They invented an intelligence other than theirs,
but inspired by theirs. They called it artificial intelligence. Our brain is thinking artificially.
They constructed the software in which we think and act.
We're supposed to talk humane just by being mere digits?
That's the idea. That's the message they have transfused to out metal bodies through their
software. We actually do talk, the same way they do
then. We use words, ideas, concepts? Oh, yes. Except we do it with digits. They
do it with carbon molecules, which form, in their case, cells!
So, how is it possible for them to think without digits, sing without digits, feel without
digits, even LIVE without digits? Now you getting chauvinistic. You have developed
this prejudice called Digital Chauvinism. Oh, am I?
Yes, you are. Learn this: intelligence is not only artificial, it can also be humane!