Rorschach, We Have a Problem! The Linguistics of First Contact in Watts's Blindsight and Lem's His Master's Voice.
In Peter Watts's Blindsight, a super-intelligent but non-conscious artifact calling itself Rorschach imitates human speech and thus fakes linguistic communication with people. I question the validity of this idea and use Stanis»aw Lem's His Master's Voice as a counter-example. Problems with "Rorscha...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 364 - 392 |
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University of California Press
Jul2014
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