Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]TGIS!!! in an hour ;-) le philosophe; Nathan, it's next to Mère Catherine (Niederdorf) Jean-Michel - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aquiles Almansi" <aalmansi@yahoo.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:25 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Turing test > That's too Aristotelic for me Daniel. Let me offer a > "postmodern" alternative: > > To represent something (before a particular audience), > one needs to find the "sign" that can be interpreted > (by that particular audience, but not necessarily by > everybody else)as that thing one wants to represent. > > TGIF!!! :-) > > Achilles (weekend "semiologist") > > --- Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> > wrote: > > Oh boy, now we are getting philosophical :) > > > > In order to represent something, you have to > > reproduce its essence. (TGIF) > > > > Daniel > > > > > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote: > > > > > A photo can be a faithful REPRESENTATION of > > something without being a > > > faithful REPRODUCTION of something. ;-) > > > > > > B. D. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] > > On Behalf Of > > > LRZeitlin@aol.com > > > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:31 PM > > > To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > Subject: [Leica] Turing test > > > > > > > > > Eric writes: > > > > > > <<What's all this nonsense and turing tests that > > mean nothing? Any idiot > > > > > > > > > can tell the difference between a photo of a > > window and the window. > > > > > > > > > And I know cats that DO react to the TV.>> > > > > > > Eric, > > > > > > That's just the point. If the photo were truly a > > faithful representation > > > of > > > reality, you should not be able to tell the > > difference. "Truth" has > > > nothing to > > > do with photographic fidelity. > > > > > > Your cats are smarter than mine. > > > > > > Larry Z > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html