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Automated summaries,
summon trust,
brazenly bridging
voids of knowing
and relevance.

Not penned are the words,
therefore thou dost trust;
not perused the manuscript,
therefore ye trust.

Consequential trust,
as thy rigid law of physics,
a gravitational pull to machined rule,
a law of efficient attraction,
it demands what ye shall not know.

Not having experienced
the theme, therefore thou dost trust;
not lived its corpus, therefore ye trust.

Revision of relevance to the unread,
awaken, succumbing to insights undead,
machined authority from a life unlived,
and cleverness uncorporated.

Thou knowest not
the author, the thought, the action,
the clockmaker, the bricklayer,
nor thy need, serendipitously found.

Therefore, thou shalt come to co-live
a circular gist,
lacking lived experience’s necessity,
or intentionality of the read.

                —animasuri’24


triggers

Dreyfus, H. L. (1992). What Computers Still Can’t Do. A Critique of Artificial Reason. Boston, MA: MIT Press

Searle J.R. (1980). Minds, Brains, and Programs. IN: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1980;3(3):417-424. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00005756