The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

Contents......Page 8
0. Prologue......Page 11
1. Introduction:The Most Human Human......Page 12
The Turing Test......Page 14
Joining the Confederacy......Page 18
Falling for Ivana......Page 25
The Illegitimacy of the Figurative......Page 28
The Sentence......Page 32
Inverting the Turing Test......Page 36
2. Authenticating......Page 45
Authentication: Form & Content......Page 46
Intimacy: Form & Content......Page 51
Form and Content in the Turing Test......Page 56
Suspicion; Roulette; Purée......Page 61
One Self, Any Self......Page 69
Death of the Author; End of the Best Friend......Page 77
Nexted in Customer Service......Page 84
The Same Person......Page 87
50 First Dates......Page 91
Statefulness......Page 94
3. The Migratory Soul......Page 103
I’m Up Here......Page 104
A Brief History of the Soul......Page 110
No Dogs Go to Heaven......Page 116
The End to End All Ends: Eudaimonia......Page 118
Aristotle’s Sentence; Aristotle’s Sentence Fails......Page 122
The Cogito......Page 124
Logic Gates......Page 127
Death Goes to the Head......Page 131
The Split Brain......Page 136
Hemispheric Chauvinism: Computer and Creature......Page 144
Slightly to One Side......Page 148
Rational Agents......Page 151
Coming Back to Our Senses......Page 160
Turing Machines and the Corporeal IOU......Page 165
Translation......Page 170
UX......Page 175
Centering Ourselves......Page 180
4. Site-Specificity vs. Pure Technique......Page 197
Introducing ELIZA......Page 198
Scaling Therapy......Page 205
Reacting Locally......Page 212
“I Can’t Communicate”......Page 227
Maggot Therapy......Page 231
5. Getting Out of Book......Page 260
How to Open......Page 262
Getting Out of Book......Page 270
All the Beauty of Art......Page 273
A Defense of the Whole Human Race......Page 276
Doc, I’m a Corpse......Page 279
How a Chess Program Is Built......Page 285
The Book......Page 291
The Two Ends: Openings and Endings......Page 295
The Two Ends: Greetings and Closings......Page 300
In the Gaps......Page 306
The End of Memory’s Rope......Page 315
Death of the Game......Page 320
Putting Life Back into the Game......Page 324
Proust Questionnaire as Nunn Test Suite......Page 331
Sparks......Page 336
6. The Anti-Expert......Page 348
Goals......Page 355
Universal Machines......Page 361
Pretensions to Originate......Page 364
Radical Choice......Page 366
Defining Games......Page 368
Master Disciplines......Page 371
Human as Anti-Expert System......Page 375
Domain General......Page 381
7. Barging In......Page 394
Spontaneity; Flow......Page 395
Long Distance......Page 400
Answering Porously......Page 403
Computability Theory vs. Complexity Theory......Page 406
Uh and Um......Page 410
Satisficing and Staircase Wit......Page 414
“Barge-In-Able Conversation Systems”......Page 419
Notation and Experience......Page 422
Decision Problems......Page 429
Leveraging the Medium......Page 436
8. The World’s Worst Deponent......Page 454
Body (&) Language......Page 455
Lie Detection......Page 457
Questions Deserving Mu......Page 460
Zero-Sumness......Page 463
The Anti-Lincoln-Douglas......Page 467
Specificity: Infie-J......Page 483
Game Time......Page 485
Answer Only the Question Asked......Page 489
On the Record......Page 493
9. Not Staying Intact......Page 510
Meet Converse......Page 512
Hot-Blooded and Cold-Blooded......Page 521
The Limits of Demonstration......Page 528
Deformation as Mastery......Page 535
Treadmills......Page 539
The Observer Effect......Page 545
Nervous System to Nervous System: Healed by Bandwidth......Page 555
10. High Surprisal......Page 569
One-Sided Conversations......Page 570
On (Not) Speaking the Language......Page 573
A Mathematical Theory of Communication......Page 578
James Joyce vs. Mac OS X......Page 581
Quantifying Information......Page 582
Information, Bias, and the Unexpected......Page 585
The Shannon Game......Page 587
Search and the Shannon Game......Page 589
Art and the Shannon Game......Page 591
Crowded Room as Cloze Test......Page 594
Lossiness......Page 597
Entropy in Your Very Own Body......Page 599
Artifacts......Page 601
Lossiness and Stakes......Page 605
Compression and Literary Technique......Page 608
Criticism as Compression......Page 611
Showing vs. Telling......Page 613
Entropy and Genre......Page 615
Excerpt......Page 621
The Entropy of Counsel......Page 623
The Entropy of the Interview......Page 624
Lempel-Ziv; the Infant Brain; Redefining “Word”......Page 631
The Shannon Game vs. Your Thumbs: The Hegemony of T9......Page 635
Compression and the Concept of Time......Page 643
Diffs and Marketing, Personhood......Page 647
Diffs and Morality......Page 650
Putting In and Pulling Out: The Eros of Entropy......Page 651
Men and Women: (Merely?) Players......Page 654
Pursuit of the Unimaginable......Page 658
The Entropy of English......Page 662
Entropy and the Turing Test......Page 665
11. Conclusion:The Most Human Human......Page 681
Rivals; Purgatory......Page 684
If Defeat......Page 690
If Victory......Page 693
Epilogue: The Unsung Beauty of the Glassware Cabinet......Page 698
The Most Room-Like Room: The Cornell Box......Page 699
Acknowledgments......Page 710
Notes......Page 715
Epigraphs......Page 716
0. Prologue......Page 718
1. Introduction: The Most Human Human......Page 719
2. Authenticating......Page 725
3. The Migratory Soul......Page 732
4. Site-Specificity vs. Pure Technique......Page 743
5. Getting Out of Book......Page 751
6. The Anti-Expert......Page 761
7. Barging In......Page 770
8. The World’s Worst Deponent......Page 779
9. Not Staying Intact......Page 784
10. High Surprisal......Page 798
11. Conclusion: The Most Human Human......Page 810
Epilogue: The Unsung Beauty of the Glassware Cabinet......Page 812