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In fact, attention is of value only insofar as it is paid in the proper discharge of an obligation. To pay attention is to come into the presence of a subject. In one of its root senses, it is to ‘stretch toward’ a subject, in a kind of aspiration. We speak of ‘paying attention’ because of a correct perception that attention is owed – that without our attention and our attending, our subjects, including ourselves, are endangered.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The probability is overwhelming that if we had belonged to the generations we deplore, we too would have behaved deplorably. The probability is overwhelming that we belong to a generation that will be found by its successors to have behaved deplorably.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
On the distributed cognition account, we can already see a more dynamic picture emerging about the concerns of generative AI producing false outputs if we take seriously the idea that our cognitive processes are deeply entangled with the cognitive and affective tools that we use.
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