10 Sep
2012
10 Sep
'12
2:24 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
I seem to remember seeing something about Parry talking to Eliza in a
late-1970s or early--1980s Creative Computing, but I _was_ reading CC
at the same time as I first read _G?del, Escher, Bach_, so if it's in
there, I could easily be confused.
Somewhere around 1978 or 1979, I was running a BASIC version of Eliza
on my PET. We fed it the lyrics to "Officer Krupke" from "West Side
Story". It was a hoot ("Why do you say your brother wears a dress?")
-ethan
I once heard
that some CS students at another college wrote a program
to mimic a schizophrenic, to talk to ELIZA.
This sounds familiar, and the name that comes to mind is Parry (I think
Parry was paranoid as well as, or perhaps instead of, schizophrenic).
Check Douglas Hofstadter's writings - _Metamagical Themas_ strikes me
as the most likely. Might be in _G?del, Escher, Bach_, or maybe even
_The Mind's I_, but I think not.