RE: [Leica] Turing test

[Aquiles Almansi <aalmansi@yahoo.com>]

That's too Aristotelic for me Daniel. Let me offer a
"postmodern" alternative:

To represent something (before a particular audience),
one needs to find the "sign" that can be interpreted
(by that particular audience, but not necessarily by
everybody else)as that thing one wants to represent.

TGIF!!! :-)

Achilles (weekend "semiologist")

- --- Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
wrote:
> Oh boy, now we are getting philosophical :)
> 
> In order to represent something, you have to
> reproduce its essence. (TGIF)
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:
> 
> > A photo can be  a faithful REPRESENTATION of
> something without being a
> > faithful REPRODUCTION of something. ;-)
> >
> > B. D.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]
> On Behalf Of
> > LRZeitlin@aol.com
> > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:31 PM
> > To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: [Leica] Turing test
> >
> >
> > Eric writes:
> >
> > <<What's all this nonsense and turing tests that
> mean nothing? Any idiot
> >
> >
> > can tell the difference between a photo of a
> window and the window.
> >
> >
> > And I know cats that DO react to the TV.>>
> >
> > Eric,
> >
> > That's just the point. If the photo were truly a
> faithful representation
> > of
> > reality, you should not be able to tell the
> difference. "Truth" has
> > nothing to
> > do with photographic fidelity.
> >
> > Your cats are smarter than mine.
> >
> > Larry Z
> >
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