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...

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Publicado en:	Science Fiction Studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 364 - 392
Autor principal:	Głaz, Adam
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	University of California Press Jul2014
Materias:	Blindsight (Book) His Master's Voice (Book) Watts, Peter Lem, Stanislaw, 1921-2006 Literary criticism Science fiction Markedness (Linguistics) Imitative behavior Speech in literature
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