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The Crab and the Butterfly: Semicolon Services in the 21st Century

Home sapiens sensualis We are sentimental creatures.  And by this I mean to say that we have the capacity to balance our emotions with our mental facility.  From Wiktionary, we learn this about the...

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Poetry for Robots

Our stuff is meaningful; it’s symbolically and semiotically imbued with signals of memory, utility, and identity.  These meanings are the fabric of culture – shared ideas and values that we acquire as...

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Poetry by Robots for Robots

A lot of ink and electrons have been spilled on the task of getting our machines to pass the Turing test.  It is indeed an accomplishment of some proportion if a computer’s linguistic or artistic...

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Clockwork Conversation: Not Everything Could Be Half of Something

In 1562, Don Carlos, the seventeen-year-old heir apparent to the Spanish throne, falls down a flight of stairs. Tragically, he sustains a terrible head wound. His father, King Philip II, orders...

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Unhooked: Wonder in the Digital Age

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in...

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