Simulated Conversations I am experimenting with text analysis based techniques to simulated interesting conversations between authors (or, the written works of those authors!) I seed the conversation with a topic and let the program take over which generates the conversation. The conversation that happens is really a search for most relevant sentences using word similarity and decaying the importance of what is said earlier without completely losing it. Let's start off by discussing with these authors whether they think computer think. It is interesting - though somewhat tangential. The context in which we read these sentences gives them an altogether different meaning from which they were originally written for. Which, in itself is something to think about. You: do computers think? Guy de Maupassant: Do you think that they love me? Bertrand Russell: I do not think the truth is quite so picturesque as this. Shakespeare: Do you think there is truth in them? Bert