Friday, October 2, 2009

True Love From a Computer

Hey,
Its me again looking at true love from another point of view, the computer. Assuming we had a computer that would base true love after something, what on earth would that something be? Judging from True Love by Isaac Asimov it appears he has already given this some thought. Computers are machines that must put everything in the terms of 1's and 0's , so how would they categorize true love? We can start of with a bases from Asimov and assume that a computer would probably first categorize looks and other physical appeals, such as intellect. In this instance we can think of intellect as a physical form because Isaac Asimov is referencing the IQ which is based mostly off of ones general knowledge. So a computer would potentially put the physical symmetry of the body as well as the overall IQ into two categories to check. Personally I think attempting to categorize True Love is inherently going to end in failure, however we must look at it from the computers perspective in order to take away some of its allusiveness.
On a side note, I think an over intellectual thought process involving True Love could potentially cause disaster in a relationship because people might actual hit upon some of the reasons they were attracted to each other in the first place and confuse themselves into second guessing their relationship. Sometimes we just need to be happy that people are people and that True Love is not always going to be a direct correlation to that happiness we initially feel.
Anyway, back on point the basic analysis here is this: When intellectualizing True Love we are forced to categorize it like a computer. I think I will attempt this in another post. :)
related articles: True Love By Isaac Asimov

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