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"I'm a farm boy. It's very interesting; you can detect self-starting characteristics in this society and they are strongest among people who have had some kind of rural upbringing and a very impressionable stage."
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How can you prove that your artificial, metallic brain works and is conscious? You might try providing it with vision.
This is a very early reference to the idea that an inorganic "brain" or computing device could be provided with vision, which today is called "machine vision".
Compare to the more modern conception of a vision strip from Orphans of the Void (1952) by Orville Shaara. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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