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SBF’s insightful musings on the bard call to mind the difference between the [[data modernists]] and the rest of us: the nature of discourse as a bilateral, interactive thing, as compared to symbol processing: where a machine consumes a bunch of symbols and executes a series of preset commands, without ''learning'' anything and without ''changing'' the nature of the text. | SBF’s insightful musings on the bard call to mind the difference between the [[data modernists]] and the rest of us: the nature of discourse as a bilateral, interactive thing, as compared to symbol processing: where a machine consumes a bunch of symbols and executes a series of preset commands, without ''learning'' anything and without ''changing'' the nature of the text. | ||
The thing about Shakespeare isn’t just code deposited in a database in the 1580s and left there inviolate. It is the body of work that has grown around it: the performances, the re-readings, the editions, the misinterpretations, its peculiar ability to leach into the vernacular. Shakespeare is the great illustration of art as a dynamic, living, organic thing. William Shakespeare, late of Stratford-upon-Avon is an important part of what we now know (...and love?) as Shakespeare, but the strange loops thrown around that body of work ever since, strengthening it, binding it, reinterpreting it, appreciating it — casting light on potential readings, weeding out or ignoring lesser known or obscurer extracts — this is what makes Shakespeare so enduring. Shakespeare endures because ''Shakespeare is not dead''. | [[Symbol processing|The thing]] about Shakespeare isn’t just code deposited in a database in the 1580s and left there inviolate. It is the body of work that has grown around it: the performances, the re-readings, the editions, the misinterpretations, its peculiar ability to leach into the vernacular. Shakespeare is the great illustration of art as a dynamic, living, organic thing. William Shakespeare, late of Stratford-upon-Avon is an important part of what we now know (...and love?) as Shakespeare, but the strange loops thrown around that body of work ever since, strengthening it, binding it, reinterpreting it, appreciating it — casting light on potential readings, weeding out or ignoring lesser known or obscurer extracts — this is what makes Shakespeare so enduring. Shakespeare endures because ''Shakespeare is not dead''. | ||
A [[Turing machine]] interpreting a linear string of symbols is no such thing. It leaves its material untouched, uninterpreted, unbettered. It does not interact with its environment the way human languages oblige us to. | A [[Turing machine]] interpreting a linear string of symbols is no such thing. It leaves its material untouched, uninterpreted, unbettered. It does not interact with its environment the way human languages oblige us to. | ||