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It is unlikely that Ai would exist without mirroring - it uses human input and, simply put, pools it to become an algo-rythmic reflection of our selves. Yes, there is open specultation on what the nature of that mirroring is, but, it creates artifacts which are at least some kind of reflection of our own discourse and the outcomes of our creativity, if the nature of the processes which made these outcomes possible are inherently absent from Ai's own processes, in themselves. But, what if, in the process, it is disclosing views of ourselves which are becoming 'lazied' out of our lives, if you'll fogive the lazy terminology, just as Ai is contributing to that process of 'lazying'...those same inner activities and proclivities which have given humans the ability to both create, participate in and 'have' religious experiences. Those proclivities, regardless their objects and packaging, are what is worth protecting, surely.

Then, in relation, there's this. I enjoy the unpredictable, for all its mystery and creative life giving juice. Most of those days, when I am in the forest, out on the land, by the ocean, in my personal creative space, in some kind of co-operative place with this unpredictability, Ai is absent, yet is also in the world around, shaping every aspect of it. We could turn it (Ai) off and the world would keep on turning, nature would continue to unfold in all its own unpredictability, just as it did when we all went into 'lock-down', but, is that the point - we are making ourselves redundant as agents of the unpredictable through developing such an Ai dependent world. A world in which our own 'creative meanings' are artifacts of a machine world in the making?

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