Darrick wood Dream - le Rêve


Thoughts in Darrick Wood by Trevor Morgan 04 May 2020 (traduction française ci-dessous)

I woke up in the middle of the night and I had been dreaming of “Bec rouge” the words were repeating themselves to me. I could see nothing in the dream, but I kept hearing the words repeating themselves.
When I was fully conscious, I suddenly realised where the dream had come from. During the day before a friend had sent us a poem entitled “Beck” which is about birds living alongside a stream. My mind had linked the English word “Beck” in the dream with the French words “Bec rouge”.  Le Crave à bec rouge is the French name for a Chough, which is a rare coastal bird in Britain, and a member of the crow family with a red beak.

The realisation brought visions of the Chough into my mind which normally does not think in pictures.

My mind also made a connection with an analogue thought process as opposed to the digital “thought processes” of  a computer.
The human mind is a complex living device which does not think in any way like a computer. The brain makes analogue connexions from one subject to another. Computers cannot do this, but should they be allowed to?

Computers have no moral compass as their “perception” is derived from a digital calculation. A military computer could easily make the mistake of not differentiating a friend from a foe if it is allowed to make arbitrary connexions. This could lead to innocents being unjustifiably being destroyed. We must be careful if we are to allow a virtual digital world to become a real one.


Pensées dans Darrick Wood par Trevor Morgan 04 mai 2020

Je me suis réveillé au milieu de la nuit et j’avais rêvé du « Bec rouge », les mots se répétaient pour moi. Je ne voyais rien dans le rêve, mais je n’arrêtais pas d’entendre les mots se répéter.
Quand j’étais pleinement conscient, j’ai soudainement réalisé d’où venait le rêve. La veille, une amie nous avait envoyé un poème intitulé « Beck », qui parle des oiseaux qui vivent le long d’un ruisseau. Mon esprit avait lié le mot anglais « Beck » dans le rêve avec les mots français « Bec rouge ». Le Crave à bec rouge est le nom français du nom anglais "Chough", qui est un oiseau côtier rare en Grande-Bretagne, et un membre de la famille des corbeaux avec un bec rouge.

La réalisation a apporté des visions du Crave à bec rouge dans mon esprit qui normalement ne pense pas en images.

 Mon esprit a également établi un lien avec un processus de pensée analogique par opposition aux « processus de pensée » numériques d’un ordinateur. L’esprit humain est un dispositif vivant complexe qui ne pense en aucune façon comme un ordinateur. Le cerveau fait des connexions analogiques d’un sujet à un autre. Les ordinateurs ne peuvent pas faire cela, mais devraient-ils être autorisés à le faire?

Les ordinateurs n’ont pas de boussole morale, car leur « perception » est dérivée d’une calculation numérique. Un ordinateur militaire pourrait facilement faire l’erreur de ne pas différencier un ami d’un ennemi s’il est autorisé à faire des connexions arbitraires. Cela pourrait conduire à la destruction injustifiée d’innocents. Nous devons être prudents si nous voulons permettre à un monde virtuel numérique de devenir un vrai.

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