A.I. Vs Human……. From ‘Emergence’ Magazine……
by Bernie Bell - 09:01 on 13 October 2025
A.I. Vs Human…….
A heartening piece by Laura Muncie….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/12/curiouser-and-curiouser-the-changing-world-of-books/
To which my response was….
“Creativity - true appreciation - of food or writing or any art form ....something A.I. can never replace or even attempt to replace. To quote Charles Rennie Mackintosh…
”There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfection of the mere stylist.”
A.I. is the ultimate ‘mere stylist’.
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16526
The following was on a friend’s Facebook page, in fact, on the FB page of the Ian Marchant mentioned in the piece I link to above…..
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/22/richard-beard-universal-turing-machine?
My comments were…
“Here I go….no A.I. could have produced ‘The North Road’ by Rob Cowen…..
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17507
Orrrrrrr ‘One Fine Day’ by Ian Marchant….
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16286
The idea of A.I. trying to ‘be human’ makes me incandescent with rage! A very human response!
Aaaaand...no A.I. could have written 'Stone Lands' by Fiona Robertson...... http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17415 “
OK, I’ll stop now – you touched a nerve there, Laura! A most excellent piece of writing, which no A.I. could have produced!”
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine……
by Roy Scranton
“The swelling ocean is never just the ocean. A seal is never just a seal. Likewise, a maple tree is never just a maple and a dune is never just a dune.”
The world we perceive is shaped as much by imagination, memory, and cultural meanings as it is by rock, water, and soil. How, then, can we challenge ourselves to peer beyond what simply meets the eye and engage more thoughtfully with a place’s ecological, geological, and cosmological dimensions? In this week’s story, Roy Scranton shows how moving beyond our habitual ways of seeing reveals the hidden depth present within even the most ordinary of landscapes. What first appears to him as uninspiring farmland, highways, and worn industrial sprawl in his new home of South Bend, Indiana, begins under sustained attention to disclose an archive of dramatic glacial shifts, flourishing Winnebago, Miami, and Potawatomi societies, and the havoc wrought by European colonization. Uncovering layers of physical and temporal meaning that transform monotonous Midwestern landscapes into rich terrain, Roy invites us to practice this same attentiveness, allowing ourselves to be changed by the stories that make a place new and strange, and the mundane alive with resonance.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/strange-new-world/
My musings.....
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/08/05/innocent-landscapes/
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