Vraifaux's
Truth or Dare
Readers' Answers
1/Dec/96
Language is a virus.
True or false?
True. It is not capable of multiplying by itself, but it enters our
brains and has them make copies of it.
Kenji
2/Dec/96
Money is a physical entity for a vending machine.
True or false?
False. A coin or a banknote is a physical entity, but the vending
machine is programmed to extract money value out of it.
Kenji
3/Dec/96
Mind can be localized.
True or false?
False. A mind is a function of a brain, and it does not have a physical
location.
Kenji
4/Dec/96
Space is the final frontier.
True or false?
False. The final frontier is likely to be our own brains.
Kenji
5/Dec/96
Mediocre god rules.
True or false?
True, if the god made people to look like him or her. Besides,
mediocrity rules in a democratic society.
Kenji
6/Dec/96
We are likely not to notice extra terrestrial intelligences.
True or false?
True. Our intelligences will be so significantly different that
we wouldn't recognize each other at all.
Kenji
7/Dec/96
Your physical existence can be doubted.
True or false?
True. I could be a software running on some computing device.
Kenji
8/Dec/96
Memory will save the world.
True or false?
True. If we memorize everything no paper will be needed.
Kenji
9/Dec/96
Miscarriage is sad.
True or false?
False. It is a part of natural selection.
Kenji
10/Dec/96
Mass production creates life.
True or false?
True. Life is just what is copied.
Kenji
11/Dec/96
Humanity opposes maintaining our living standard.
True or false?
True. If all people on Earth shall be fed and sheltered as people in
developed countries are, then we will have a shortage of resources.
Kenji
12/Dec/96
Population growth is to enable mass production.
True or false?
I'd say true. Clearly the world population exceeds the number of
people which Earth can naturally hold. The reason for this excess
can be that ideas and products produced by human can then prosper.
Kenji
13/Dec/96
Society is an animal.
True or false?
True. It behaves like one.
Kenji
14/Dec/96
Artificial intelligence already exists.
True or false?
True. A vending machine, for example, is an artificial intelligence
because it maps money to goods, which is a function of the human
intelligence.
Kenji
15/Dec/96
A brain will not understand how the brain works.
True or false?
I don't know. This is the biggest question human will have to face.
Kenji
16/Dec/96
Death is always an accident.
True or false?
False. Some deaths are programmed. However the program came to
existence by an accident, I suppose.
Kenji
17/Dec/96
Environmentalism is human-centric.
True or false?
True. Environmentalism tries to protect the environment surrounding
humans and it does not care at all for example the one surrounding
flies which may benefit from human environmental problems.
Kenji
18/Dec/96
Money is a language.
True or false?
True. It is a mapping of a set of things to their meanings (values).
Kenji
19/Dec/96
Livestock are extended digestive organs.
True or false?
True. They transform their food into something humans can easily digest.
Kenji
Always under déconstruction
Copyright © Kenji Saito, 1996