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| Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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That was also my interpretation. Back in the day, a "computer" was a person rather than a machine. Some have suggested that Turing's work connected with his struggles to come to terms with his sexuality, leading him to identify people with automatons. It's so hard to ever interpret every line of a song like this, and once I had that theory, more and more of it seemed to make sense. |
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| Bright Eyes – Arc of Time (Time Code) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think I get it -- as my wife explained it to me. People have trouble understanding it because they don't understand "how to read it literally" -- as strange as that sounds. It is about immortality and transcendence, but not the small-minded, old-fashioned, vision of immortality and transcendence that he parodies in the middle of the song. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_transfer. If you want to go further off the deep end, check out Ray Kurzweil. I think the "code we have always known but could never understand" is our own minds ... or that there is something about us [soul? consciousness?] that transcends our physical being. I think he is saying that we will transcend, being reborn on a circuit board again and again and again... like he says. |
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