The description is interesting; I tend to think that all thinking life is
analogic and if AI reaches a sufficient degree of complexity, it will
somehow parallel that, which is one reason I'm interested in phenomenology
and its relation to abjection, the impure and improper life (to reverse
Kristeva). At least the moment, we're heavily embodied; I think a better
description might be DIGITAL-WRITING-AND-LIFE for example. This is what
I'm on about _now,_ typing into an ASCII terminal window, for example, and
watching the interplay of thought and delay (as text feeds back slightly
later, a result of network lag), thought catching itself up with produc-
tion. I wonder that inner speech is so little discussed here; that is an
occurrence that is usually taken for granted, but gets tripped up in lag.
Lag is the soma and somatic of the net in a sense, what creates hallucin-
atory feedback, and what might represent body. Originally like everyone
else, I thought it would disappear; now, with net neutrality under attack,
it's likely to grow worse.
Here, typing, I see my speech and thought in print in an active environ-
ment; as I pointed out years ago, there are others here with me, on the
server, within the spreading network; my typing isn't local - you might
say the terminal in this sense is the first cloud - I store elsewhere than
my machine, and it seems to be all alive, unthinking, trembling, like that
very old post of Andy Hawks I republished, about I feel the wires. -
Alan
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