All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 12.0 Window on the World
All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 12.0 Window on the World, is now posted.
Noetic File 12.0: Window on the World
The Narrator has a discussion with an appliance.
This type of humor, ironically, seems to be older than the actual development of artificial intelligence, having originated with writers of futurism romances and speculations.
The first known futurist to address this topic was a writer named Isaac Asimov, albeit modern scholarship cannot now determine if this were a robot who wrote about humans, or a human who wrote about robots.
A similar controversy surrounds the question as to whether Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, otherwise known as the Bride of Frankenstein, was an artificial person constructed of reanimated body parts of others, and brought to life by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, or merely a speculative poetess who addressed the topic.
The question is a delicate one, since poetesses, seeking to enlarge the honor of their order, wish to claim the authoress of the text-file FRANKENSTEIN as one of their own; likewise, the scholarship of the Mentality Moons, being artificial persons, would prefer the age and hence the dignity of their order be set to the earliest feasible date.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
