{"id":6097,"date":"2020-06-22T02:49:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2020-06-22T02:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:54:19","slug":"the-mirror-and-the-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=6097","title":{"rendered":"mirror and squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>watching a squirrel. how many choices does it have about which way to move? is it not a robot? what&#8217;s the difference between squirrel as robot and a human made robot? the squirrel just has more choices in its programming. there is a synthesizer called alchemy and it has a randomizer function. suppose to make a variation of the sampled sounds users are working with. is it actually randomized or is it following a preprogrammed equation? doesn&#8217;t matter, the user experiences it as random. people don&#8217;t think they are robots despite the fact that they have nothing to do with their heart beating, their kidneys filtering and their toe nails growing, yet when they look in the mirror and wink and and say hey good looking, as though they have free will and not simply doing as is the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>watching a squirrel. how many choices does it have about which way to move? is it not a robot? what&#8217;s the difference between squirrel as robot and a human made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=6097\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}