Computer Power and Human Reason

Joseph Weizenbaum

ELIZA

conversations must be about something, that is, becaus ethey must take place within some context (369)
Weizenbaum's three objections
1) psychiatrists are taking him seriously on distance medicine (370)
2) Programmers and others are able to form strong emotional ties with computers. (370-371)
3)no general solution to the problem of natural language (371)

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Ethos: I am professionally trained only in computer science (371)
Militarism and rationalism (372) the introducation of computers into our already highly technological society has, as I will try to show, merely reinforced and amplified those antecedent pressures that have driven man to an ever more highly rationalistic view of his society and ever more mechanistic image of himself (373)
the question is whet7her or not every aspect of human thought is reducible to a logical formalism (373)
Religious questions around free will (373)
I would argue that if computers could imitate man in every respect -- which in fact they cannot -- even then it would be appropriate nay urgent to examine the computer in the light of man's perennial need to find his place in the world. (373)
The role of rhetoric and the humanities (375)

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