Padoke Explainer
Glossary:
Padoke is a dog. He can talk to humans, sometimes he talks down to them as though they are a foolish species that are fond of squandering what he believes are irreplaceable opportunities of random chance, that mathematically are highly unlikely to happen again in the current form of the universe.
He gets upset sometimes with the fleas that exist in the hairs of his coat for biting him. However, he will point out to anyone who will listen, there are no records of fleas developing or using atomic weapons, I can handle a big nibble occasionally. Why should every flea in my coat, pay the price for one zealous nibbler.
Padoke has spent most of his existence on the floor in front of a television that only goes off when there is a blackout. The exposure to Western culture through television has formed his view of everything, he regards as intelligence.
Padoke believes that intelligence is language, code, mathematics, in fact any form of messaging that is understood, as intended or misunderstood by a receiver. The message generator is any accumulation of energy that forms an independent logic. It does not have to be able to self-replicate, only be able to transmit energy in a recognized pattern. A perfect example of this is a child imitating its mother and attempting to sing, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Padoke is absolutely certain that there is no such thing as artificial intelligence. There is nothing in the universe that is artificial, he likes to point out. Humans are species-centric, if they cannot see an immediate benefit to themselves, it is waste of time.
In the privacy of his own mind, surrounded by humans, Padoke often thinks, those humans will never get beyond their own exceptionalism, until it is too late for this beautiful little blue-green planet.