Friday, January 11, 2013

The Intricacies of the Human Being


So it's been a while, but I've been somewhat sick, so let's just not go there :) I'll admit though, during this time, crime of all crimes, I wasn't able to code much. And whatever people say, it's not like riding a bike, things are forgotten and it does come back to bite you.

Being sick though, it got me thinking to the intricacies of the human body, which always makes me think of a short clip I saw on the net. It was meant to be a joke but its always been something at the back of my mind, something I wanted to examine to the level of difficulty and maybe program myself. It was essentially displaying God as a programmer that was setting up the world. It never went into fine detail, just him logging into his computer, (password "Omniscient" meaning all knowing) creating light, heavens, earth, sun, stars, seacreatures, land animals, birds, humans, etc. It was a cutesy way to put it, but just the Objects mentioned, well, setting up a very rough idea of human:

Human
Gender
Name
Location
PhysicalAttributes
  CirculationSystem
  SkeletalSystem
  MuscularSystem
  DigestiveSystem
  EndocrineSystem
  NervousSystem
  ImmuneSystem
  ReproductiveSystem
  EyeColour
  HairColour
  NoseType
  Height
  Weight
EmotionalAttributes
  Empathy
  Happiness
  Intelligence
  Introvertness
  Warmth
  Reasoning
  EmotionalStability
  Dominance
  Liveliness
  RuleConsciousness
  Social Boldness
  Sensitivity
  Vigilance
  Abstractedness
  Privateness
  Apprehension
  OpennessToChange
  SelfReliance
  Perfectionism
  Tension
LevelOfCrazy
OverallHealthLevel
OverallPhysicalAttractiveness

This isn't even really any extensive detail. And note, this is not trying to be dismissive or insensitive, but when you consider the precision of humans, it would be simply exhausting to list it all here... Which means I'll be coming back to it constantly. Come to think of it, most of these would need to be defined as ints because they influence one another. For example, intelligent people are correlated to a lower level of happiness (which seems fair since it would be unfair to have a extensively high level of happiness, intelligence, and attractiveness in a person). Or short, since this would be a large program and we should be conscious of memory space. Good gracious...this may end up being a lifelong project...

Note-most of the Emotional Attributes are from the 16PF (a psych test that describes your personality)

2 comments:

  1. Interesting post, Carolyn. However, would 'gender' be an attribute? Or 'sex', as well as 'genderIdentifiedWith', as sex is more of a biological designation while gender seems to be a cultural construct.

    Also, some things like "LevelOfCrazy" or "OverallPhysicalAttractiveness" may be a bit subjective to assign some kind of metric to. :p Just sayin'.

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  2. Nah, it would probably look at exact brain chemistry, size and weight of organs within the brain. It would then give the predisposition for the object to "feel" inclined one way or another.

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