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Digital Torture
T> I recall that Daniel Dennett, in one of his Brainstorms essays, 'Why You Can't Make A Computer To Feel Pain' [more or less a cognitive analysis of pain, the conclusion of which was that the 'folk notion' of pain had several self-contradictory aspects, so that strictly speaking, it is not possible to truly speak of a human feeling pain, let alone a computer], discusses the phenomena of the 'badness' of pain (but not it's intensity or many of it's negative feedback properties) being reducible under meditation, hypnosis, or various other ritual behaviours. That seems to be the case here. I beg to differ. After seeing the Hellraiser films a coupla hundred times, I gave up on the idea of getting anywhere in the PC support field and decided to become a Cenobite. My previous two girlfriends ran off without leaving forwarding addresses when I started discussing the possibility of experimenting on them with sharp objects; for the sake of getting along, I haven't discussed this with my current SO; still, she has been giving me some wary glances. So, I turn to my PC. I've arranged it so that certain combinations of keystrokes will elicit degrees of simulated pain; the screen colour reddens slightly and the machine makes an irritated, squeaky sound. I'm working on it. |
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