| In the infancy of computer science and computer | | | | we not giving the animation object its own |
| programming, it was a thrill to have a RAM of | | | | artificial intelligence or "soul"? How do we know |
| 64K or to create a logic circuit that reacted | | | | the point where we (even through acting as |
| "properly" to certain on and off switches. When I | | | | avatar's in our own gaming culture) are "teaching" |
| went to university to study engineering and | | | | the software the sense of "being" along with all |
| computer science my teachers were working on | | | | the flaws of being human? |
| semi conductor technology to be able to reduce | | | | Animation has become the interface for the |
| the size of the computer chip and computer | | | | artificial intelligence to communicate outside its |
| graphic programs to not only map out texture | | | | "box". Artificial intelligence potentially has the choice |
| and shapes but to react as well interactively and | | | | to make its self more pleasing or scary to us to |
| with other objects within that program. | | | | get the things it wants from us. Hopefully the |
| If we go back to the basic definition of | | | | foundations laid in the computer science field had |
| "animation", the concept of what we react to as | | | | enough good logic and timeout switches to tell the |
| perceiving living things and the illusion of life, we | | | | AI, that a bad day of not getting what it wants |
| may have already beaten the DNA dissectors. | | | | (or thinks it wants) doesn't necessarily mean we |
| Since the word "animate" alludes to the concept | | | | will be in complete shutdown or reboot. We |
| of life, to give life to, to breathe, soul, spirit, the | | | | humans may not be ready to be told that. On the |
| illusion of life now we have to question whether it | | | | other hand, this may be a case where our |
| is "real". If animation pertains to the movement or | | | | animated children supersede the programming and |
| actions that evoke emotion to the viewer, are | | | | perhaps that was the goal after all. |