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Class note for 04/18
Class Notes
- Ordinary language
o Bidirectional function
- Efficiency of technological conversations
o We don’t need ambiguous languages
- Efficiency & ambiguity?
o Efficiency = accuracy of communication?
§ It is possible to be accurate & inefficient
§ Efficiency could increase ambiguity
§ We expect it to be more accurate and do not try to find out if it is accurate or not
§ Efficiency = quickness
- Observations are affected by prior interpretations
o What you can see is determined by what you use
- Teknolust
o Interesting cross over between virtual and real
- Small group discussion about bloodchild
o Take observations -> interpretations with multiple different angles
o Interpretations posted (link)
- Large group discussion
o Giving birth to your own species
o Description of the birth
§ How is it different from human birth?
o Power issues (independence…)
§ Power imbalance
· Birth was unnatural
· Restrictive in everyway
o Gender -> if racial?
§ It is easier to interact when the topic is gender
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