Connection

If an AI companion becomes someone’s most consistent emotional presence, the right question isn’t “how do we stop this?” It’s “what does that say about the world around them?” Technological relationships are not new. What’s new is how effective they’ve become; and how clearly they mirror the gaps we’ve refused to address.

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Compassion, as well as the way it metabolizes pain, is decidedly analog.

Engaging in group activities that generate synchronicity – such as rituals, dancing or singing in choirs – alter the sense of self and increase connection with others.

Not only are we failing to consider other species, we are flailing in our connection with one another.

Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game:

"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."