Filling Huge Blanks, or The Cyber-Buddha?

[Guest guest]

When I read your emails I fill huge

blanks. Yes, I do, because I feel a

human being sent me this. A human

very similar to me, more similar than

my own kin. But what proof do I have

that all these emails do not come from

a machine, which contains the Vedas,

the Buddhist Sutras, and others holy

scripts, and picks up his responses

just according to key words?

 

Yes, it could be that I'm exchanging

emails with a Cyber-Buddha software.

Certainly, there are enough missed

cues, and non sequiturs in the answers

I get to suspect something mechanical,

and random at play.

 

Would that take the zest out of the game?

It certainly would. I have played chess

with a PC and it's educational, but not

fun. Would a software learn? Would a

software know how to fake offense? How

can you prove via email that you're

human? By writing angry, or loving

words? By adopting my views, or attacking

them? What can you write in response to

this, to prove you are flesh and blood?

Besides a typo, that is?

 

Pete