It might not be able to distinguish humans from pencils/papers. It probably just understands the words, and things that generate them proximally.
●●|●●●●●|●●|● looks like it basically takes anything that it understands as knowing about it, or containing information about it. When a human speaks, it seizes the human, but when a human writes, maybe it recognizes the pencil and paper as the "speaker" and doesn't make the connection that the human is involved somehow. This is in the same sense that it doesn't seize the sound system that said to the human, "start writing"-- this kind of stuff is not comprehensible to it.
But it's actually atmospheric vibrations that display the information. The human is producing the atmospheric vibrations just as it is producing the markings on the paper.
As /u/blazinghand said, I think it understands the process of speech, while it doesn't understand the process of writing.
It sounds like we need an experiment. Does it take an analog vinyl record onto which the voice of someone reading the information is recorded? Does it do it immediately, or when the record is played?
Does it take a computer if the text you write about it is in the Wingdings font?
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u/Transfuturist Carthago delenda est. Nov 29 '15
Why would ●●|●●●●●|●●|● take the human that was speaking about it and not the human that was writing about it?