But there was some videotape of me moving in the installation in Vancouver, and I watched it, and I noticed that my movements were rather strange. And I realized that what had happened that what the machine could sense and what I was doing had converged. We had come to some kind of agreement on the definition of what movement was. And that's certainly a lesson I haven't forgotten. It's interesting to watch, for example, in musical performance the way the rising level of the compact disc has changed musical performance.
People are competing with their compact discs now, for example, to have as few errors as possible.
What happens is that the things that machines can do are things that we privilege in ourselves as well in this sort of competition to the death. And I think that is exactly the wrong attitude. I don't even know what to call them. We create a situation where exactly what we should be liberating in ourselves is under extended critique and being lost . I really believe it's a mistake to believe that we have to be on the front wave of this thing in order to compete successfully as a people and as a nation.