Stockholm, 2 – 3 July

this morning, Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on the meaning of life caught my eye at The Marginalian—marginalia on the search for meaning. A review by Maria Popova of lectures originally given in German, for the first time translated into English, under the sensational title of Yes to

After the post-script mode & memory to the AI Perceptual Ontology post, which I filed under theory, I had to ask myself if it was really or whether I was not in an echo chamber with the LLM providing the echo. I threw in two quick and dirty prompts as

I believe, although it was wearing a blinder, a hood, or, in Arabic, a burqa (the same word as the full-body covering for women), even the falcon knew it was being photographed and was posing. The cat certainly knew it was. The goat refused to be photographed. Behind the cockatoo,