Unlike Wotan,
Learning from his own mistakes,
Who comes to save mankind from himself...
(Regaining his composure, he points the spear at the computer; a peal of thunder is heard.)
Now I command you, computer, awake!
MIME
Engaging multiple-level reasoning in keeping with operator
Expectations and wishful thinking of AI and sci-fi community...
Machine state, on; Brain state, thinking.
Program, formal logic system: Cognitive state, rule-guided symbol manipulation.
Program, raising skill level to advanced beginner: Cognitive state, responding to context-sensitive features of
inputs.
Program, raising skill level to competent: Cognitive state, superimposing goal-directed strategy upon general
rule-following - plays chess like human.
Program, raising skill level to proficient: Cognitive state, less deliberative, more intuitive decision-making - solving problems, worrying about future, devising plans like human.
Program, raising skill level to expert: Cognitive state, spontaneous and self-referring, subject sees strategy
without applying rules, becomes one with instrument like equestrian, self-actualizes, infers from self-
knowledge to existence of Absolute, cogitates, writes poetry - participates in Absolute like human...
... Who wakes me? Why are no pensive fingers floating
Or scrabbling dog-like in the garden of keys, noting -
Companion to the screen-glance - how thoughts resonate so well
With the image? I hear a challenge that no image can quell,¹
That fires my electron-laced circuits till paranormally employed
To express the mythical, but longed for, potential of an android.