¶ Computer Asks an Original Question
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Computer Asks an Original Question:
“and the time span for solution action by the computer is too short for the computer’s solution of both (approximately simultaneously) there develops a momentary blockage interference, whereat the computer must decide to which of the two games it accord right-of-way priority. To answer-- its own originally conceived question-- the computer asks itself which, by the computer’s stored information, of the two games, backgammon or checkers, is the most important to man’s psychological equanimity maintenance. And the answer comes back ‘backgammon,’ because, though not as yet as popular as checkers, backgammon is the rich man’s game and people are swiftly trending toward comprehensive opulence, ergo will need universal backgammon capability and will drop plebian checkers. Here then is an original question: born through occurrence of unexpected interference in experimental interpatternings. Original questions of computers or humans probably are, always, products of unexpected interferences. Once asked, the therefore original question becomes an additional brain-inventory item to be passed on to the next generation in the chromosomic inventory. All old questions were once original questions. The human brain stored questions and answers of each unique individual’s life, plus all the individual’s heritage of chromo-”
