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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: Table-lookup Chinese speaker
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Date: 27 Jan 92 21:20:02 GMT
References: <1992Jan23.215145.7979@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Jan24.172328.7312@aisb.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jan27.023623.8118@husc3.harvard.edu>
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In article <1992Jan27.023623.8118@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
> Compare two programs generating the same
>kind of output for the same kinds of input (e.g. two sort algorithms).  Why
>would the intensional difference in program stricture be relevant to our
>issue?

This is fascinating! I suppose my TV-set could be considered equivalent to
an enormous table of pre-recorded pictures and sounds, that were stored in
the apparatus at the time of fabrication, and now are being poured out in
endless streams whenever I power it up. It is absolutely fascinating to
think about the foresight of the designers, having been able to supply this
marvelous device with all the pictures that it would ever need to give the
illusion of reporting of the current happenings all over the world, and
showing what is absolutely indistinguishable from live programs, and so on;
all this with my remote control as the only input to select the appropriate
pictures out of that homungus table. Or is my control a dummy, and has my
input also been foreseen? I _knew_ those TV transmitters all over the
country were just fakes.

I'm just a little worried about the day when my TV runs out of pictures.
Surely such a day must come?

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