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THE COMPUTER AND LITERATURE

Third Programme
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Two dialogues between
JOHN Rillie and EDWIN MORGAN Lecturers in the Department of English Glasgow University
2: The Computer as Creator
Machines have already composed music and written verses which can be recognised as such. But can a machine have ' the flash of imagination built in '? Is machine creation merely the permutation of randomness and how does this relate to writing such as that of William Burroughs ? Most important, can there be a dialogue between man and machine? John Rillie and Edwin Morgan continue their argument about the potentialities of the computer in literature.

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John Rillie
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William Burroughs
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John Rillie
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Edwin Morgan
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