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Student. Tennis player. Political enthusiast.

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'Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed' - Howard Nemerov

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  • A comment on Conversation: Why does music "touch" us emotionally? It doesn't make sense.

    Jun 24 2011: I feel as though listening to music, much like the sense of smell, stimulates memories about people/location/events that strike an emotional cord with the listener. When we listen to a piece of music, we harmonize with our surroundings and embrace the people/events that we associate with that piece of music. Take for instance the recommendation of a song by a friend. One will remember the friend/loved one for as long as he/she listens to the piece of music, and the music itself can transcend time boundaries to exist as a potent memoir of that person irrespective of life's circumstances. I think memories associated with the music, complementing the melody and harmony of the piece, are the reasons we are stimulated emotionally.

  • A comment on Conversation: Should an interface have an emotional connect with a user?

    Jun 22 2011: I feel as though we are edging towards the emotion-eliciting UIs Sumit refers to. If we were to look simply at operating systems through time, human-machine interaction is becoming more and more interconnected and intimate. I, however, disagree with this change. The more we rely on technology to replace humans, the more we will isolate and alienate ourselves from real social interaction. We will be reduced to a society of machines and artificial intelligence, and everything will seem mechanical and predictable. To fully capitalize on emotional responses, a capricious disposition is necessary and machines should not be able to recreate the human unpredictability that makes emotional responses poignant and significant.

    It will definitely be 'cool', but I feel as though we don't need machines to recognize, evaluate and analyze human emotion, we have humans for that :P

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