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Posted by johannes grenzfurthner on August 20, 2008 3:30 am

Could It Be

This is the story of two gay subroutines...
---> http://www.monochrom.at/coulditbe/

"Could It Be" by monochrom. From the Semi-Best-Of album "Carefully Selected Moments"
( http://www.monochrom.at/moments )

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Comment by Pall Thayer
August 20, 2008 5:16 am
This is great. Absolutely fabulous. It ties into the whole "philosophy of being software" idea that I've been discussing and developing in this thread: http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/38069

First of all, could a subroutine fall in love with another subroutine? Wouldn't that be sort of like my arm falling in love with your leg? And the suggestion of sexual differences between software is... intriguing as is the idea of software having a desire to form some sort of "relationship" with other software. Of course we could see this as already existing, Photoshop and Illustrator live quite happily together but does it ever go deeper than simply joining together to complete tasks more efficiently? Do two pieces of software ever join together simply because they enjoy each other's company?

Pall
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Comment by Salvatore Iaconesi
August 20, 2008 5:54 am
do you know this, as well?

http://www.vi-con.net/
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Comment by Pall Thayer
August 20, 2008 6:36 am
Yes, I remember that project but I feel it's a bit different as it doesn't seem to really touch on any philosophical notions of why or how these programs experience the emotions they do. I liked the lines in monochrom's song that went something like this:

"My memory did not know
Not zero
Not one
It has only just begun"

Is that really it? If we can force technology to recognize (not necessarily "understand") something that is neither zero nor one, on nor off, that it begins to "feel"? I doubt it but it's an intriguing idea.

Pall
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