Something similar happens in telephony today. When you talk to your Mum over a phone that uses a predictive vocoder, you're not really talking to your Mum. You're talking to a voice synthesiser that is being instructed to talk like your Mum.
Does it really matter though? It's just a different way of encoding the information. These things force one to think about the nature of what is real and what matters. Is the important thing actually hearing your Mum (whatever that means), or making the connection with her at an emotional level?
Does it really matter though? It's just a different way of encoding the information. These things force one to think about the nature of what is real and what matters. Is the important thing actually hearing your Mum (whatever that means), or making the connection with her at an emotional level?