Why Computers Can't Be Poets

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There is no royal road to learning, the ancients said; but in our culture, now, all roads seem, in one way or another, to lead to the computer. The transition from mathematical logic to the computer is an easy and natural one. But the overwhelming questi

About the Author

William Barrett is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Pace University. His books include The Truants and Irrational Man. Like his essay, “Philosophy & the Disappearing Self,” in our September 1984 issue, the present article is adapted from his new book, Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer, to be published later this month by Anchor Press/Doubleday. Copyright © 1986 by William Barrett.