¶ Computer Asks an Original Question
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Computer Asks an Original Question:
"somic-administered, subconsciously operative experience responses, represent, in progressive sum total, the uniquely variant integral known as individual man. The integral man will always be far more complex than any systematically organized set of variables conceivable by man and introduceable into the computer. Computers cannot in millions of years generate enough interferences to occasion enough original questions to be unexpected further integrated to approximate even an average individual let alone each of a trillion individuals’ lives and their half a septillion interrelationships and the unpredictable interferences thereby to be generated.
"While the computer will not replace man as an integrator in the foreseeable future, it will undoubtedly replace man as a differentiator. There is good historical precedence for this prognostication. It is to be found in natural history.
(Specialization Sequence follows – Ed.)
