This is a nice video, thanks for posting. In the video, I assume that the soul he is talking about is in his 3D printer. And the way that this machine has a soul is that he is projecting feelings...
This is a nice video, thanks for posting.
In the video, I assume that the soul he is talking about is in his 3D printer. And the way that this machine has a soul is that he is projecting feelings on it because of the experiences that he has with it. It has taught him something valuable about himself and about creating.
This reminds me of a few different things.
First of all, it reminds me of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince). In that book, the prince encounters a fox. The prince tries to train the fox, but also becomes the fox's pupil. Here is a quote from the fox:
“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."
"To establish ties?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
This knowledge is also applied to the prince's relationship to a rose that he takes care of. The rose is very selfish and takes a lot of special attention.
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
So in taming the 3d printer, he has become attached to it and given it a soul.
The second thing it reminds me of The Man in the High Castle. In that book, there is a secondary theme about whether the authenticity of historical artifacts is important. One of the characters (Robert Childan) sells American artifacts. These have a high market value if they are associated with historical events. The people that come in contact with the artifacts actually can feel the historical importance of them. The problem is that Childan is selling counterfeit items. The book explores a bit (at various levels) whether the historicity of the items even matters, or if it is all in the experiences felt by the people who encounter them.
The third thing I think of is how people anthropomorphize objects in their lives. People will give moods and other emotions to household objects. I've heard more than once a statement like "My car was upset today". Of course people do this with pets too, ascribing human emotions to animals, which do have emotions, but maybe not the ones that are projected on them. This is a normal human thing to do, but I think it is used very cynically by people who make "AI" like ChatGPT to increase the market value because people project humanity on something that doesn't have it.
This video felt beautiful to me, a narrative around someone pugnaciously forcing themselves to learn and overcome challenges in order to create a thing, interwoven with the story from the iron giant
This video felt beautiful to me, a narrative around someone pugnaciously forcing themselves to learn and overcome challenges in order to create a thing, interwoven with the story from the iron giant
This is a nice video, thanks for posting.
In the video, I assume that the soul he is talking about is in his 3D printer. And the way that this machine has a soul is that he is projecting feelings on it because of the experiences that he has with it. It has taught him something valuable about himself and about creating.
This reminds me of a few different things.
First of all, it reminds me of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince). In that book, the prince encounters a fox. The prince tries to train the fox, but also becomes the fox's pupil. Here is a quote from the fox:
This knowledge is also applied to the prince's relationship to a rose that he takes care of. The rose is very selfish and takes a lot of special attention.
So in taming the 3d printer, he has become attached to it and given it a soul.
The second thing it reminds me of The Man in the High Castle. In that book, there is a secondary theme about whether the authenticity of historical artifacts is important. One of the characters (Robert Childan) sells American artifacts. These have a high market value if they are associated with historical events. The people that come in contact with the artifacts actually can feel the historical importance of them. The problem is that Childan is selling counterfeit items. The book explores a bit (at various levels) whether the historicity of the items even matters, or if it is all in the experiences felt by the people who encounter them.
The third thing I think of is how people anthropomorphize objects in their lives. People will give moods and other emotions to household objects. I've heard more than once a statement like "My car was upset today". Of course people do this with pets too, ascribing human emotions to animals, which do have emotions, but maybe not the ones that are projected on them. This is a normal human thing to do, but I think it is used very cynically by people who make "AI" like ChatGPT to increase the market value because people project humanity on something that doesn't have it.
This video felt beautiful to me, a narrative around someone pugnaciously forcing themselves to learn and overcome challenges in order to create a thing, interwoven with the story from the iron giant