Tilt. Please start to reprogramme this again
and do so repeatedly till you believe it.

To think, that as a child I worried
that people might misunderstand me;
what a relief to discover that it was not me
but my information that was the problem!

"Hello again!" said Alice

I sense a confusion, to my mind, around the words ‘memory’ and ‘information’. For me, information is abstract, as in the basic communication image of sender / message / receiver. How the word ‘information’ is used in this text, it seems to me to mean ‘memory’. This is my point of difference. I fully believe and we all know that various devices can store information and that a cyborg can be one of them. For me the crux is the extent to which neural pathways and synapses function in artificial intelligence. Can they make those conceptual links which humans (and especially posthumans) make? The evidence is to the contrary. We have only just reached the point where an artificial hand can be matched to nerves and activated by them to function. We have not yet reached the point where an AI machine can translate idioms. Leaving the moral questions to one side, and showing respect for Hayle’s background and research, I sense a confusion between dream and present reality here.

At present, for me, I’m afraid:

Reference:

Hayles, N.K. (1999). Toward embodied virtuality, chapter 1 of How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and informatics. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. pp1-25