The other day i was having a conversation with a friend about, conversations.
It started with me saying that he was not very talkative, he said how so, i said that he often made no attempt at lengthening a conversation, he said you dont either, i said i do, he said i dont, i wittily replied i do, he said how, i said that i say 'indeed' after all ceonversation has dried up, which is my desperate ettemp-th at lenghtening the said conversation, to which he had nothing to reply, so i said indeed, he said try not to repet your self, it ruins the conversation, to which i thoghtfully replied:
But, what truly is a conversation? Is it the conversation between to entities? So therefore can comouters hold viable conversations with one another? But they are not living, can not make decisions for them selves, they are slaves, told to do what we tell them to do.
He said: Exactely. To have a conversation you must have independant thought.
I said: Or, do you need a script, a code, by which you can derive answers from, much like computer AI in games, they seem to reason and think for themselves, although they are told to do so. And so, is there just some giant text-document in the universe full of all the possible combinations we can answer to in a conversation? Or do we each hold a independent, evolving script, based around on what we do or think? You say we need independant thought, waht about people ruled by a totalitariest goverment or ruler? They dont have independant thought, they are more like scripted-entities than humans, running a script programmed for them, yet they still hold conversations? Then what about dogs, ants, flowers, they have independant thought, although sometimes very small ones. Surely they can have conversations?
He replied: They can have exchanges of words (flowers cant talk, by the way) but true conversations require independant thought
I said: Says who?
by this stage he was leefing through a dictionary
Unfortunately, some twat from oxford begged to differ
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