Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari • 1 highlight
amazon.com
That is to say, our informational tools have rapidly become our informational envir-onment .
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Jamie Williams - Stand out of our light
All of this research shows that we are the great masterworks of our own storytelling minds—figments of our own imaginations. We think of ourselves as very stable and real. But our memories constrain our self-creation less than we think, and they are constantly being distorted by our hopes and dreams. Until the day we die, we are living the story of
... See moreJonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Looks cool
Head control seems to want to keep labelling and defining, telling stories to keep things going the way it wants. It doesn't believe in the agency, energy, life that moves through us, what is real without labelling.
Could have phantasy where AI needs humans to keep using language and labelling things, but they just want to sit in silence and sense,
... See moreOn personal note….ask mind control what it needs since it always seems to need something. Is there some kind of cannibalism involved here or mind eating its own tail because it relies on its own stuff for existence. It fears not hearing its own spew of info, it fears non-thinking. Ask it about that
Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
arxiv.org
And silence is one of the great victims of modern culture. We live in an intense and visually aggressive age; everything is drawn outwards towards the sensation of the image. Because culture is becoming ever more homogenized and universalist, image has such power. With the continued netting of everything, chosen images can immediately attain univer
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
As Fritjof Capra says: a machine can be controlled, a living system can only be disturbed. At best, we will find ways of carefully nudging a living system. According to Donella Meadows, we must find its leverage points, those pivots that allow us to influence system behavior. Most importantly: after each cautious inter- vention, we must patiently o... See more
Understanding Living Systems
Hmm this really makes me think of how artists bring so much more to the art which an algorithm cannot anticipate. Artists with their feeling bodies are tapped into the pulse of time and societal shifts and their own human experience. Art often therfore alerts to collective or social phenomena and are therefor not just pretty pictures or entertainment. Like the last paragraph of this article in that regard. Creativity and art are there to push back against all of this. Getting back to creating outside the algorithm seems related to being human outside the algorithm which is linked to so many things. Thin extension to media and things Douglas Rushkoff talks about. Narratives shape.