Saturday, April 30, 2011
Best of the wek: Who programs who?
Another DYM?!?! question discussion made me change the way I think. The quesiton was that people program computer. How do computer progra people's brain and mind and make it new? I said that people ulimately are the soure of the programing of our brains. How is started with people programing the computer programs. I was ultimately trying to think of a program on the computer that shapes our brains, like internet or computer games or google, but then i thought of the computer did not make thos programs humans did. So those progras that shape our mind humans made so the computer doesn't really program our minds, it is the human that programs the computer to program our mind, which i found ironic. And maybe one day the humans will actually make a computer program that can really program us, but ultimatley it is the human. That was a major realiztion i got out of this question. We are creating robots, computers and programs to replace us. The realization of who programs who?
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Your back and forth conversation with Mr. Allen was pretty amusing. I had the same thought as you when that question showed up. I mean, that question was like asking me "which came first? The Chicken or The Egg" kind of thing. But when one focus on the background of the question, one might notice that people are starting to be more dependent to the computer as the computer becomes more advance. It feels like the biological human brain and the mechanical computer are proportional. If one increases the other decreases. Although that thought is scary, the people around us starts to unravel the way they think as if the computer is programing us! We want everything fast now. Human perception toward this kind of question will say that humans programed the computer for the fact that the computer will not be born if there was no human. But like I said, If we look upon the big picture around us, we are now so dependent to the computer that our brain might not function very well without the presence of it. I know that the absence of the computer will affect me in some various ways. But who programs who? That might be a challenge for our 21st century thinkers, which is us.
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