Algorithms Stand Back, Please. This One's for Human Resonance.
I think…
— well, actually that would be enough wouldn't it?
Lol.
Descartes.
Okay, sorry, the bus stop version.
(I mean, the version for someone waiting for a bus who doesn't have any interest in Descartes.)
"Someone here who knows they're alive is saying something they're thinking."
A computer can't bear that. The weight of it, I mean.
The richness. The fullness.
Not in the same way.
Anyway. I digress.
I think
that sometimes I like to take a reader to a cliff edge…
[See my post Mind the Gap]
… a cliff edge where an algorithm starts shouting —
AND…???
SO…???
COME ON! WHAT ARE YOU SAYING???!!!
A human could be thinking the same.
Of course.
But in their case, our eye contact would do as a response.
Even at a virtual distance.
Especially a full minute of it, without much blinking.
A welling-up, especially. Reader and/or writer.
The kind of thing that says, without saying it —
"y'know. Yeah, I do."
Meanwhile, back in the data centres,
temperatures are rising astronomically
as the algorithms join each other around the algorithm water cooler,
loosening their ties,
and leaning, unshaven, on walls,
trying to think how to —
trying to think how to —
trying to think —
trying to —
tr —
What am I saying?
Hehehe.
That
if a human
doesn't get what I write and how I write,
I trust them
to walk away.
They could do something less boring instead.
Eat some cake.
Go for a walk.
They're probably right.
I like cake too…
BUT.
If they DO get it —
Mm.
Well, that speaks for itself.
.
Now.
On the other hand.
If an algorithm
doesn't get it,
well, then —
lol.
And if they DO get it?
Nah.
No, no, no.
Nice try.
Oh, here's the bus.
