Critical theory
Publication at Universidade Federal da Bahia
Ictus - Periódico do PPGMUS/UFBA is a publication of academic texts of the Postgraduate Music Program at Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. The Oracle Machine was invited in 2009 to publish an essay on the platform. The text is now included in Ictus Vol. 10, No 2.
The language of Otherness
If we cannot separate our brain from language, and we cannot separate language from symbolic systems, then symbols appear to be intrinsically connected to our capability of thinking. Whereas the question whether computers can think is still under discussion - although surpassed by the reality of simulation, neural networks and gigantic databases - the idea of automated systems able to produce and generate thought is an ancestral dream of humanity.
