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The Computer as a Prosthetic Organ of Philosophy

Author(s): Rokeby, David

Abstract

This article looks at issues of language and encoding from the perspective of computer programming. Particular attention is paid to the different relationships between code and encoder/decoder in computer coding and human language coding. Examples of the writer/artist's work and working experience are used to illuminate these differences and a role for computers as philosophical prostheses is proposed.

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Rokeby, David: The Computer as a Prosthetic Organ of Philosophy. In: Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien, Jg. 5 (2003), Nr. 3, S. 1-7. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17614.
@ARTICLE{Rokeby2003,
 author = {Rokeby, David},
 title = {The Computer as a Prosthetic Organ of Philosophy},
 year = 2003,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17614}",
 volume = 5,
 address = {Providence},
 journal = {Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien},
 number = 3,
 pages = {1--7},
}
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