{"id":45993,"date":"2015-08-10T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45993"},"modified":"2015-08-10T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:34:05","slug":"further-to-ai-emlyn-saw-the-ostrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45993","title":{"rendered":"Further to AI: Emlyn saw the ostrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; following on from <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45944\">A difficulty with DoubleQuotes<\/a> &#8212; in which Emlyn and his mother exhibit different forms of recognition  ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, my son <strong>Emlyn <\/strong>looked at the middle frame in this image:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/negative2-cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/negative2-cropped.png\" alt=\"negative2 cropped\" width=\"602\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/negative2-cropped.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/negative2-cropped-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and &#8220;saw&#8221; the ostrich.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>He immediately pointed me to one of a series of <strong>double imgages<\/strong> comparing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/239605642647582651\/\">the facial expressions of an ostrich and the BBC&#8217;s latest <strong>Mycroft Holmes<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ostrich-mycroft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ostrich-mycroft.jpg\" alt=\"ostrich mycroft\" width=\"601\" height=\"328\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ostrich-mycroft.jpg 601w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ostrich-mycroft-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm, yet another use of <strong>DoubleQuotes<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the &#8220;ghost ostrich&#8221; &#8212; the middle image in the set of three above, juxtaposed with the ostrich as Emlyn recalled it from his encyclopedic interest in the great detective:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ghost-ostrich.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ghost-ostrich.png\" alt=\"ghost ostrich\" width=\"601\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ghost-ostrich.png 601w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ghost-ostrich-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can you see the resemblance? Frankly, I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Emlyn&#8217;s mother had it right, I think. She saw the original dog image (left, below)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nichon-frisee.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nichon-frisee.png\" alt=\"nichon frisee\" width=\"601\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nichon-frisee.png 601w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nichon-frisee-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBichon  Fris\u00e9 image, right, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dooziedog.com\/dog_breeds\/bichon_frise\/images\/Bichon-Frise-5.html\">Dog Breed Information and Pictures<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and suggested it was a <strong>Bichon<\/strong> pup. If so, it&#8217;s a feisty one. I wouldn&#8217;t know..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; following on from A difficulty with DoubleQuotes &#8212; in which Emlyn and his mother exhibit different forms of recognition ] . For the record, my son Emlyn looked at the middle frame in this image: and &#8220;saw&#8221; the ostrich. ** He immediately pointed me to one of a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,24,627,1038,444,1,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-cognition","category-doublequotes","category-emlyn","category-fiction","category-uncategorized","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45993"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46005,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45993\/revisions\/46005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}