About the presentation

Three Readings:

The Rhizome (Deleuze/Guattari) / The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) / As We May Think (Bush)

Questions:

1. What are these 3 readings talking about?

2. What's the connections between each of them?

As We May Think basically reveals how the human brain and the artificial intelligence work differently from each other, and it also shows different concepts, ideas that the scientist developed to try to communicate with the machine, and use it to store and manipulates data.

The Garden of Forking Paths starts from a new way of story telling, which gives the reader an option to choose how the story gonna be developed at certain key point.  This represents one of the approaches in computer programming -  the conditional constructs. The if-then construct (sometimes called if-then-else) has become one of the basic syntax across many programming languages, such as Visual Basic, C, C+, C++, C#, etc.

If (condition) Then    (statements) Else    (statements) End If

This is similar as how the story goes, for example:

If (the character opens the 1st door) Then

     ( A monster  came out)

Else

     (he opens the right door and leaves safely)

End If