| Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've been reading a lot of Neal Stephenson lately, and this song definitely reminded me of Turing and cryptanalysis too. I just finished reading The Diamond Age, and there's one part where the protagonist has to figure out how to reprogram this huge castle that is a Turing machine via binary chains that program the robot ruler so she can escape. The chains run through the floor and walls of the castle. If it is a breakup song, I can understand the feeling of the same kind of prison that you can only escape through some heavy, intense thought; a type of puzzle so difficult that you're not sure if you'll ever be able to figure it out. |
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