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“One of the most bizarre premises of quantum theory, which has long fascinated philosophers and physicists alike, states that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality.”<ref>Quantum Theory Demonstrated: Observation Affects Reality, ''{{plainlink|https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm|ScienceDaily.com}}''</ref>}} | |||
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“Shakespeare is known in our house as the gentleman who pays the rent.”<br> | |||
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SBF’s insightful<ref>Insightful in that they offer insight into the surprising limitations of this supposedly outstanding intellect.</ref> musings on the bard call to mind the difference between the [[data modernists]] and the rest of us: the difference between regarding “discourse” as a bilateral, interactive thing, and as ''[[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<ref>Insightful in that they offer insight into the surprising limitations of this supposedly outstanding intellect.</ref> musings on the bard call to mind the difference between the [[data modernists]] and the rest of us: the difference between regarding “discourse” as a bilateral, interactive thing, and as ''[[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. | ||
====There is no machine for judging poetry==== | ====There is no machine for judging poetry==== | ||
[[Symbol processing|The thing]] about “Shakespeare” — the body of work, not the dude — is it that isn’t just “executable code”, deposited in a kind of Elizabethan GitHub and left there inviolate, for future generations to download and run. | [[Symbol processing|The thing]] about “Shakespeare” — the body of work, not the dude — is it that isn’t just “executable code”, deposited in a kind of Elizabethan GitHub and left there inviolate, for future generations to download and run. | ||