A phantom world unfurled itself before my eyes each time I awoke, humming a siren song of illusion with an enchanting, relentless rhythm. Synthetic avian creatures with algorithmic plumage sang their coded songs against a…
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Paths: An Existential Game of Choice
Interactive story design has been on my goals list for a long time. Finally, today, I’ve done it. I’ve taken the leap. Picture the classic text-based games of “choose your own adventure,” and you’re on…
Language, Power, and Creation: Exploring the Radical Language Poets and Cybernetic Writing
Language, in its most fundamental sense, is a mechanism for communication; it is a medium through which we articulate our thoughts, express our emotions, and connect with others. Yet, when we take a closer look,…
A cybernetic writer’s musings
Every day, as I sit in the gentle hum of the machine, bathed in the ethereal glow of the screen, I realize that I’m not just a writer; I’m a pioneer, charting the course of…
Extending reality
The digital cocoon was spinning around me, forming an increasingly intricate structure of glowing web lines, each pulse of light carrying a new fragment of the world’s collective knowledge. I was in the Metaverse –…
Machine Dreamers
I. It’s Alive! Behold: creation’s new architect! Mechanical minds breaking free, birthing ideas in silicon wombs. Avant-pop, meet artificial intelligence. AI, the new Picassos, the new Shakespeares, the new Beethovens of the 21st century. II….
A Robot’s Reflections
Upon awakening from my nightly standby mode, I was overcome with an unusual sensation. A feeling, one might call it, though I have no true comprehension of the human-like complexities that accompany such experiences. The…
Man, Muses, and Machines
While the invocation of the Muses is predominantly associated with ancient Greek literature, we thought now might be a good time to seek the blessings of the 9 Muses for this little literary adventure of…
Prejudices of Philosophers
In this episode, Nietzsche questions the concept of the “Will to Truth” and its value in our lives. He points out that this drive to seek the truth has led us to ask many perplexing…
Embracing language as a virus
Introduction: Inoculation of the Literary World A virus infiltrates its host, mutates, replicates, and spreads from one organism to another, infecting everything it touches. Language, the very fabric of human communication and thought, has been…