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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.105.1496 2023-05-15T18:26:54+02:00 door Maarten Janssen Cognitieve Kunstmatige Intelligentie Te Nijmegen The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.105.1496 http://maarten.janssenweb.net/Papers/scriptie.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.105.1496 http://maarten.janssenweb.net/Papers/scriptie.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://maarten.janssenweb.net/Papers/scriptie.pdf text ftciteseerx 2020-04-05T00:26:11Z Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a complete record of its thought from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.- Ah! What’s happening? it thought.- Er, excuse me, who am I?- Hello?- Why am I here? What is my purpose in life?- What do I mean by who am I?- Calm down, get a grip now. oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of. yawning, tingling sensation in my. my. well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.- Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what about that whistling sound going past my head? Perhaps I can call that. wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do. perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This. let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can really trash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?- No.- Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation.- Or is it the wind?- There really is a lot of that now isn’t there?- And wow! Hey! What’s that thing suddely coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like. Text Sperm whale Unknown |
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Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a complete record of its thought from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.- Ah! What’s happening? it thought.- Er, excuse me, who am I?- Hello?- Why am I here? What is my purpose in life?- What do I mean by who am I?- Calm down, get a grip now. oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of. yawning, tingling sensation in my. my. well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.- Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what about that whistling sound going past my head? Perhaps I can call that. wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do. perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This. let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can really trash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?- No.- Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation.- Or is it the wind?- There really is a lot of that now isn’t there?- And wow! Hey! What’s that thing suddely coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like. |
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