I have always enjoyed the reverse-china room theory. That ant machine, no mater it's simplicity, has some kind of conciseness and form of understanding.
If for no other reason, then that the milling machine at work will understand when I'm mad at it.
Computers generate an electrical/magnetic field, we generate an electrical/magnetic field. When they intersect, there will be an interaction. They can sense your mood and react accordingly... (Anyone who works with computers for any time will likely agree!).
on one hand you should never anthropomorphize the computer when you're mad because it only does what you tell it to do but on the other you should because its my beloved friend.
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If for no other reason, then that the milling machine at work will understand when I'm mad at it.
Gendering computers? Weird, an affront to nature. I refuse to accept the binary