“For everything written there are thoughts, notes, that no one will use if he has not done something with them. Notes that a writer collects are of no meaning to another, no one else could make the connections. Every time a great scholar dies something unique vanishes out of the universe, a way of thinking that will never be expressed again.”
– Loren Eiseley, The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley
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““The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau, quoted in The Life of Images by Charles Simic
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We read to unearth the one true point of view of the writer.
We write about what is on our mind.
That is what we sense, what ensnares us: our unique way of seeing.
As a reader, I enjoy the singular, focused view of the individual.
Can AI replace the writer?
I think not.
It provides a blurred composite.
We need leadership of vision rather than a picture by committee.
Isn’t that what AI is? One big committee? A picture by consensus.
We cannot fully explain consciousness- how the mechanics of the body and chemicals of the brain create us.
At the same time, no matter how broad the inputs, AI is artificially created with software and algorithms.
There is no unique point of view.
No soul.
Give me the divine mystery of the individual over the megalomaniac overview of AI
I am an artist. a writer, an individual.
These are my words. I selected the quotes above, taken from books I have read.
For better or worse, these are the connections I have made.
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