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Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Thus, the AI on embodied perception in Minus Theatre

Prompted to consider Minus workshop 4, part 1: embodying emotion a working out in practice of the themes of actual perception in duration, emotional association and virtual imagination, against habits of recognition, conditioned response and representation (theatre, according to Peter Hallward, being the art of representation par excellence) ChatGPT 5
Simon Taylor 27 Aug 2025
human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

human virtual multiplicity and AI’s singular expectancy

Marc Anton recently posted on facebook that most of its users couldn't care less what is said in criticism of AI such that he doubts any amount of technical or philosophical demystification is going to change perception or behaviour. In "Never mind the botlickers, ‘AI’ is just
Simon Taylor 27 Aug 2025
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
Simon Taylor 17 Aug 2025
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
Simon Taylor 13 Aug 2025
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
Simon Taylor 07 Aug 2025
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
Simon Taylor 04 Aug 2025
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
Simon Taylor 28 Jul 2025

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