Dear Chuan, Rafael and All,<br><br>There is a point in this exchange which perhaps should be addressed explicitly: everybody knows that people differ in their capacity to appreciate poetry emotionally. But we also differ in the capacity to appreciate the importance of poetry and art for science; this might be said to require an<br>'intelligence' of poetry. Perhaps someone else can express better what I am trying to say here.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Joseph<br><br>P.S. Admirers of Basho's haiku are directed to his far superior one to which this is a Californian response:<br><br>Warm cloudy day in Spring<br>Perched on a fresh leafy branch<br>A young tow-hee <br><blockquote style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left:15px;">----Message d'origine----<br>De : rafael@capurro.de<br>Date : 19/03/2015 - 08:35 (PST)<br>À : fis@listas.unizar.es<br>Objet : Re: [Fis] Chuan's reply8 - THE FRONTIERS OF INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE-- an old poem as an echo<br><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Chuan,<br>
thanks for sharing this poem.<br>
Allow me to thank you also with these texts where I try to reflect
on Dao and Information Society<br>
<a href="http://www.capurro.de/china_infoethics2010.html">http://www.capurro.de/china_infoethics2010.html</a><br>
This is a Chinese translation: <a href="http://www.capurro.de/beijing2011_chinese_version.pdf">http://www.capurro.de/beijing2011_chinese_version.pdf</a><br>
See also: <a href="http://www.capurro.de/DB_Akademie.html">http://www.capurro.de/DB_Akademie.html</a><br>
See also my activities and presentations in China:<br>
<a href="http://www.capurro.de/home-cn.html">http://www.capurro.de/home-cn.html</a><br>
best regards<br>
Rafael Capurro<br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US">Dear </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" lang="EN-US">Stanley N Salthe</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US"> and All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>I am back to
my duty from ten days hard work. Reliving from tired let
me come back to the breakpoint – Stanley’s poem echo to
Emily – and my draft reply as a new poem the same. I will
finish and put out next mail – reply as another poem is
“The Song of the Computer” and another poem on Internet.
These two have send in our FIS years ago. And now “here a
stay, and there a star”, now “ struggling to affect each
other from our slowly burning bodies”, let us put these
stars here again as a bunch of flower first.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Let this as my
echo. We can image a Science fiction: long long after,
there is a country, there <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>set
such an law : if you have not replied an poet’s poem at
once, if delay five days, you are evil. So let me use an
old poem echo your poem as soon as I finished my heavy
work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Thanks for you
poem. That is nice!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>More reply and
the new later. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US">Chuan <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体" lang="EN-US">2015-3-19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>发送时间:</b> 2015-03-14 03:41:00<br>
<b>收件人:</b> "赵川" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:zhaoc@cdut.edu.cn"><zhaoc@cdut.edu.cn></a><br>
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<b>主题:</b> Re: [Fis] Chuan's reply7 - THE FRONTIERS OF
INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE-- a poem & the π-festival<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Chuan, fis'rs
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<div>Here is a poem I wrote a couple of years ago:</div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">internet fellowship </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> is like --</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> being in heaven?</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT: 10px
Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></span><br>
</p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">we’re</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> disembodied spirits</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> struggling to
affect</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> each other.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT: 10px
Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></span><br>
</p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">patterns of ‘on and off’ in
the waves and wires</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">like cells in an organism</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT: 10px
Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></span><br>
</p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> we’re disembodied spirits
launched from our slowly burning bodies,</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> the fuel for our
cognitions,</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> like charcoal
for a flame</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT: 10px
Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></span><br>
</p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">maybe this is (what) heaven
(is like)</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10px Helvetica"><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> launched upon the
embers of hell.</span></p>
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<div><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><br>
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<div><span style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">STAN</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:18 AM, 赵川
<span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:zhaoc@cdut.edu.cn" target="_blank">zhaoc@cdut.edu.cn</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Dear FISers, </b></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>These days I
am doing a heavy and important work that I can not
finish my respond mail. Though there are many
ideas emerge in my mind. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>Let me put a
poem of Emily </span><span lang="EN-US">DIKINSON</span><span lang="EN-US"> in our dear discussion. <span> </span><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><b>OUR
SHARE OF NIGHT TO BEAR</b></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 136.5pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span> </p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 136.5pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Emily DIKINSON</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Our share of nights to hear –</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Our share of morning –</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Our blank in bliss to fill </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Our blank in scorning – </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Here a star, and there a star,</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Some lose their way!</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Here a mist, and there a mist,</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Afterwards – Day!</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 105pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span>
</span>1890</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 78.75pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">c.1859</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>For I thought
of the image of “here is a star, and there is a
star” and looked for this poem to share here. Let
us shine and share.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>Dear Joseph, I
agree with the Stanislaw Lem’s opinion. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>Yes, she is
right: afterwards – Day!</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>Tomorrow is </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体">π</span><span lang="EN-US">-festival
– March 14 - 3.14. I celebrated a</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体">π</span><span lang="EN-US">-festival
this afternoon. That is wonderful. And it is the
birthday of Einstein the same. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>Cheers!</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>Chuan</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">March 13, 2015</span></p>
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