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Surely there could be a more indigenous life than we have. There could be a consciousness that would establish itself on a place by understanding its nature and learning what is potential in it. A man ought to study the wilderness of a place before applying to it the ways he learned in another place.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Note that this does not imply that we necessarily think our Generative AI models are conscious. We likely address them "as if" they were another, what Sweeney (2023) describes as a fictional dualism (also see Coeckelbergh 2011; Krueger & Osler 2022; Krueger & Roberts 2024; Roberts & Krueger 2022).
What is most conspicuously absent from the industrial economy and industrial culture is this idea of return. Industrial humans relate themselves to the world and its creatures by fairly direct acts of violence. Mostly we take without asking, use without respect or gratitude, and give nothing in return. Our economy’s most voluminous product is waste – valuable materials irrecoverably misplaced, or randomly discharged as poisons.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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