A reading between technology and psychology, starting with the language we use to describe machines.
The words we choose
We say that a computer remembers, a program learns, a machine responds. These are also words we use to describe our own experience. What do we mean when we transfer them from a person to a system?
The title We Made Computers in Our Image and Likeness opens this space for reflection in the Booknowledge catalogue. It invites us to examine our questions before seeking a definitive boundary between human and artificial.
One question, two perspectives
We can approach the subject through technology, asking how to describe what a machine does. Or through psychology, questioning what we recognise as intention, understanding or resemblance. Comparing the two perspectives is part of its appeal.
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