fake people noodle soup

 Fake people 2025   GANs--theatrical power Mis/Disinformation--real power of fake entities   How do we distinguish who is human?  The theatre has been preoccupied with this since (let's say) RUR -Wynter, Hayles, Jackson, Spivak?-->Star Trek/BSG/Westworld  Actors, faking it.     The structure isn't any clearer, but maybe what belongs is.  ______________________________revised below_________   Theatrical histories of pretense       -MLC, Roach (also actresses), Barish, [something about technical theatre? Tarryn?]:  actors and theatre, faking it.  Fakeness as epistemology   GANs--theatrical power of the fake and synthetic Mis/Disinformation--real power of fake entities  Unembodied:  Intelligence and personage without corporeality  -(note that "without body" is not meant to be an attempt at definition but a description of now, since it seems probable that something like a body, or som...

 yielded:  chinese room, like turing test  but also, something to say about embodiment:  artificial intelligence isn't (yet) embodied, and so misses affect as a constitutive embodied experience.  You can't "think" affect.  And an unembodied (distributed?  but that seems to imply across many bodies; nodal?) entity has no body to keep trauma's score.    I thought something that went like this:   Chinese room--> Difference/distinctions between artificial and human intelligences (problematize)-->       -important for human supremacy/anthrocentrism      -like Gopnik pointed out, changes as what artificial forms can do change; moving goal posts One difference is feeling, affect, phenomenology      -this is slightly better than the magic spark      -although already seems like it might be too much to claim      -note the harm done in this vein:  crea...