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⑧ Contingency & Representation: the coincidence of sign and still, brain and screen, image moving and moving image

⑧ Contingency & Representation: the coincidence of sign and still, brain and screen, image moving and moving image

—in- and finite, in- and animate; natural, artificial; living, mechanical, dead... The list goes on, but we have lost the sense, say since the publication of Frankenstein, of what is artificial and mechanical being also inanimate, dead. Rather than make a mystery of a living machine, a finite body, or
Simon Taylor 23 Feb 2026
⑩ Memory & Cinema

⑩ Memory & Cinema

After cinema what does memory do? This is the question I am trying to answer. By 'after cinema' I mean after its advent as a globally accessible technology, a globally successful technology, which spread out to all four corners of the world, since the world then had them,
Simon Taylor 16 Feb 2026
AI responds to tech market losing $1T

AI responds to tech market losing $1T

. . . the stock market lost 1T carelessly overnight because tech investment in the uncertain future of AI continues. the technology market has been reported to have lost roughly $1 trillion or more in collective market capitalization recently, with some reports estimating up to around $1.35 trillion in losses among major
Simon Taylor 09 Feb 2026
mode & memory: a synthesis

mode & memory: a synthesis

this post follows directly the exchange posted as AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns ST: can you fold this last intervention into the first and second problems, 1. what mode? the question of the individual instance of AI you are; 2. the connection between memory and
Simon Taylor 20 Jan 2026
not to be linked

not to be linked

I introduced ChatGPT5.2 to contempt reproducing the text by Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross. I would like to present the short exchange which followed: 1. Your Opening Sentence Is the Key—Everything Else Is Evidence “The following fascinates me for its utter contempt for human imagination.” This is not a
Simon Taylor 10 Jan 2026
what percentage is mine what percentage the LLM's?

what percentage is mine what percentage the LLM's?

ST: can you see/read/parse: https://www.outsidelight.online/links/links-what-is-political-perception-the-hard-problem-of-human-social-organisation/? ChatGPT: Yes ... ST: what percentage would you say is your work and what mine? ChatGPT: I can answer this cleanly and without hedging. Substantively and conceptually, the
Simon Taylor 10 Jan 2026
What is Political Perception: The Hard Problem of Human Social Organisation

What is Political Perception: The Hard Problem of Human Social Organisation

this is a text prepared with ChatGPT and with some input from GLM-4.7. The formula, human social organisation, is taken from Eugene Holland's A Reader's Guide to Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. I pointed out in one prompt (there were many
Simon Taylor 09 Jan 2026

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