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        Date: 2026-08-09 17:29:01+00:00
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 40.119: "World Models and Artificial Intelligence"

Thank you as always for this. I'd like to go one more step and add that
discourse about AI is another form of culturally coding AI, and it's
largely profit-driven. If we're mystified by AI and think it may be a new
form of consciousness, that's what the billionaires running those companies
want us to think.

Some of them know better btw and have said so.

Organic vs. inorganic. Bridge that divide first, or at least try to explain
it, because the only forms of consciousness we have ever encountered are
fully organic.

Jim R

On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 3:07 AM Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:.
As “A Sentence is Worth a Thousand Pictures” points out briefly but

> tellingly, those codes and efforts always both succeed and fail, and when
> they
> fail “we” reprogram and . . . fail again . . . and so on in saecula
> saeculorum.
> But what the coming of the Anthropocene has so startling exposed is the
> accumulating costs of code reprogramming.
>
> And as the smart ship grew,
> In stature grace and hue
> In shadowy silent distance grew the iceberg too.
>
> x
> Jerry
>
>


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