Month: September 2024

RPA Part 1 — Sharing Word/Excel between objects in Blue Prism

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It’s quite common for Blue Prism developers to use MS Word VBO or similar to interact with Word instances in workflows. However, a problem arises when we want to extend the object with some custom functionality that utilizes Word COM object. The issue is that MS Word VBO doesn’t expose the Word instance and we … Continue reading RPA Part 1 — Sharing Word/Excel between objects in Blue Prism

Pitless Pit Part 1 — Furmanek Test for consciousness

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Today I’m going to propose a framework for determining whether a being is conscious. I call it the Furmanek Test (just like the famous Turing Test). The test is based on identifying paradoxes among problems that can be proved unsolvable. General Idea According to Wikipedia, “a paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement … Continue reading Pitless Pit Part 1 — Furmanek Test for consciousness