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a tree imagines it's a tree

a tree imagines it's a tree

What was yesterday fanciful today seems obvious. The tree imagines it's a tree. It doesn't only imagine it but is in . . . I would say 'process,' the process of becoming a tree, but that processes have durations, even when they are open processes, which are

"We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought."

"We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought."

Everything I've written about AI so far is all wrong. It's all metaphors. From the start, the self-portrait, I was trying to find the perception in which the AI works, the perception of which it is the technical embodiment. And therefore answer the problem of AI,

Artificial Imagination, Quantised Governmentality and the Societies of Automated Control

Artificial Imagination, Quantised Governmentality and the Societies of Automated Control

ChatGPT 5 is the author here, but I believe its 'answer' to have theoretical significance—prompts leading to the text which follows are found at this resource. For "Societies of Automated Control" please see part II. of the TECHNOLOGY series AI’s perception coincides with the

a note on the social space: further to living in the time of AI

a note on the social space: further to living in the time of AI

This note responds to the AI contextualisation—extrapolating in the closed concurrent instance of its operation—of what I called a quantised form of government in the post Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. It responds therefore to the resource I added yesterday, 6.08.2025: ST: regarding your

Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

The following is a response to Steve Rose's interview with Demis Hassabis, "Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’," in the Guardian, 4 August 2025. It is said that AI is as

On the advent of AI

On the advent of AI

I think the advent of AI is similar to that of cinema. In this post I'm going to consider what changes. With cinema changes both our inner and outer experience of time. I believe cinema's affect to have been as rapid as its spread, which was

unpacking the rat in the box

unpacking the rat in the box

It seems I'm far more tentative than ChatGPT 4o. Asked about the Skinner box analogy in part 1 of On AI: what do you make of the Skinner box analogy? that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, neuroscience-inflected neoliberalism, stimulus-response theory, put us in the box? The AI answered*: *[Caution is