[eu-gene] Generative or not? cubo23

[Jaka Železnikar]

if computer would be able to program itself why would it make art? And why
would it *felt* cons/or-something-else is important.

(on current state of computer technology) i guess it's most likely that 
it would
program a fatal error or huge security hole :)




Adrian Ward pravi:
>
> On 21 Feb 2006, at 09:38 am, rob at robmyers.org wrote:
>
>> *Specific* intent is easy enough to embody. But the *general* intent 
>> that it is
>> an instance of is always human. We could write a program to randomly 
>> decide
>> what to write a program to do and then to code it up, but this might 
>> not be
>> very interesting as we would have very little in common with the 
>> meta-program.
>> It would probably make a piece about conses.
>
> What's wrong with that? If the program felt conses were important 
> enough to warrant making an artwork about them, let it do so. We're 
> capable of finding many things interesting, even stuff we have little 
> in common with.
>
> If you were really worried about this, you could code up other 
> meta-programs that appreciated the conses piece. And then put them 
> together in a subdirectory called "Art Gallery".
>
> Strangely compelling.
>
> --Ade
>
>
>
> --'Douglas Hofstadter believes he is a strange loop, and who am I to 
> disagree?'
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