“A poem islanguagebuiltto the struc-ture of aflower.”
“Love is the Turing test, [...] It is how we check for life.”
“We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.”
“And don't give me any sentimental nonsense about creativity. I believe that a Universal Turing Machine could show behaviors that we would construe as creative.”
“Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.”
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.”