GODDESS AS IT
This extraordinary exchange between Owl Man and AI sends reverberations through me, stirring memories, associations. First, I read a recent interchange between a moral philosopher and ChatGPT. The human asks: “Is it moral for a human to ask an amoral AI for assistance in making moral decisions?” The AI answers this question and others, leading the human to conclude at the end:
Note for all the seemingly sophisticated thought and language, the moral indifference born of unintelligence. Here, ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil: plagiarism and apathy and obviation. It summarizes the standard arguments in the literature by a kind of super-autocomplete, refuses to take a stand on anything, pleads not merely ignorance but lack of intelligence and ultimately offers a “just following orders” defense, shifting responsibility to its creators.
You can get the whole conversation at:
Secondly I am reminded of the movie Dark City which also explores another non-human kind of intelligence.
See DARK CITY
Lastly, in 1994 I endured a dream-vision which has not let go of me since that time. A dream-vision is an experience of an other breaking into consciousness. Opposites like sleeping/awake simply collapse. Pascal sewed his vision into the lining of his coat (which was discovered post-mortem). His vision lay “at the back” of everything he did subsequently. So it is with this dream-vision. I have included it in many of my essays and book because it demanded I do. There are so many facets that seek articulation. My latest articulation is my book LIGHTMATTER.
Here I just want to say the beginning of the dream-vision. It seems quite related to Owl Man’s talk with AI as IT:
I am working at a thermonuclear facility along with others. It is the central facility of our society. It is regulated and master-minded by a central computer, much like HAL in the movie, ‘2001’, even to the detail of the red eye with which we could communicate. This computer is female. Everybody thought of her as an IT! In contrast I would look into her eye and talk to her, subject to subject, with love.
In other words, the feminine regulating principle which is the glue of society, by relating all parts to one another and to the whole has become an IT! But my response alone is not enough. Slowly the lack of relatedness begins to drive her mad with grief….
You can read the full vision here:
Thanks to Owl Man for opening this path.