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Christine Grace's avatar

Boom! The ART OF OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS THE INFINITE LOVE WE ALLREADY ARE! Yep .... SOW EASY <3. A.I. IS not This That IS. Thank you so much for sharing.

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Joshua Bond's avatar

💕 Thank you for commenting. AI is so much more than merely 'quantity done faster'; that's what I wanted to convey in this poem. Sounds like I did. 😊

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Veronika Bond's avatar

a fine summary of the way AI would attempt to improve affairs of the human heart, 😅

an unexpected take on the metaphor of a 'broken heart', 😰

and a cautionary tale not to put our hearts into the simulator 🤔💭

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Joshua Bond's avatar

That's three nice 'take-aways' gleaned from the poem. 💜 I need to think now how to write about the inherent entropic nature of technology and how the more technologised our culture becomes, the more embedded the entropy, and the more inevitable it will run down to self-destruction. Nice light topic for a poem 😊

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Karafree's avatar

OMG this is exactly it!!! On Elliot's post where we began our conversation.. He asked me if I knew of Tom Campbell. Campbell is well known for his theory of everything "My Big TOE" Campbell claims that this whole simulation/virtual reality is here for us to slow or end ENTROPY... I mentioned to Elliot that, Campbell's theory about this reality would have to be a complete Failure if indeed Transhumanism is our final destination and succeeds.

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Joshua Bond's avatar

I watched some Tom Campbell video's, (after coming across him on Elliot's substack), but have not read his "My Big Toe" book. With our culture already significantly 'technologised' (and hence entropy already significantly structured in to daily life), transhumanism as you suggest is likely to be the final nail in the coffin of our true humanity.

If I stand back and consider this for a mo', I find it hard to believe that this trajectory towards destruction is not co-ordinated by some 'alien' mindset that wishes to totally enslave and/or eliminate the human race.

My response to it all requires a constant re-evaluation of why I am here on this planet and currently I make 'living structures' for 'sacred spaces' where syntropy can 'take root'. It probably sounds a bit wishy-washy but it's work-in-progress.

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Karafree's avatar

alien and parasitical. I do not embrace eastern philosophy which pretty much asks us to embrace our suffering KNOWING that we are creating it by our DESIRE for something. I spent 20 years looking into this philosophy, to me it's the parasite (alien/AI) subduing us and our intelligence, to submit to pain and suffering as coming from our own mind and psyche. That there are no victims, that we are doing this to ourselves.

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Joshua Bond's avatar

If I've understood correctly, I agree. Though we humans can cause ourselves a certain amount of suffering, we don't cause it all. There are very powerful forces at work pushing agendas and ideologies which people get fooled into believing thereby creating some kind of self-fulfilling cycle of self-destruction.

If you can get the masses to believe "it's all their own fault" then the parasite class are onto a winner.

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Karafree's avatar

Yes!! thanks for the validation You get what I am pointing to... not the moon but the mind control... LOL

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Seismic7's avatar

One of the finer writers on substack...joshua...herein expressed a vanishing apparition of what was...not what has been degraded..altered nihilistically..sclerotically..flat mindedly..monochromatically..wrongly....yes..of course we refer to those..El-Ites..**who deem it possible to retool the biological human condition..to suit their mentally ill hive minded insensible transhumanist golden calf satanism..well done Mr. Joshua! **Let the surviving natural humans stop..reconsider..contemplate ..think things thru..because most of all of us..and we are the vast teeming majority..want only 2genders...we firmly ..opt for dangerous freedom......civility..intellect with morals ..we resist all preplanned chaos..we .opt for retention not abandonment of gun rights...of course***. There Are only 2..genders!** Still as war ..not only fake culture wars...is everywhere risible and visible...poetry .antidotes..messages from the beyond thru dreams..speaks..listen!...when you're alone..you will remember...truth is lasting......we did not vote for the new paganistic medieval feudalism .... that Satanyahoo..Farcebook..MICROSHAFT Google -gulag..yahoo..the Biden junta..trumprat ..would impose...read and contemplate

what Joshua.. is saying.....throw rotten tomatoes at word-salad -full retard DEI hire Kamela Harris..Joshua has a fine warning message..genocide Joe..Kamela..trumpdog..zionazi RFK...all will line the garbage cans of the future...**

Before it's illegal to do so...read John 8v44. 1st thessalonians 2v 15 Rev 2v9 Rev 3v9 Rev 13v 18***. Free Palestine**. We're all Palestinians now**

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Hi Seismic7 -- thank you for the interesting and supportive reply. I am very anti-transhumanism, not least because of where such a disgusting and mad idea comes from - as you allude to in your comment. And the techno-might-is-right arrogant beliefs can basically be found rooted in the Old Testament Abrahamic religions, which I see you've got a handle on.

You might be interested how I went from engineer to geodesic-sculptor and the story's here: https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-journey?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Meanwhile, technology as it is currently being developed is a war of attrition against the human race, and leaves humans with little option but to grow in consciousness pronto, and develop trusting resilient communities to negotiate living through this time of violence against the human spirit.

You might also like another one of my 'technology'poems ... it's here: https://joshuabondpoetry.substack.com/p/man-versus-machine

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Jamie Millard's avatar

Oh Josh! Metaphorical and magic! Left brain, right brain. Masculine, feminine. The contrasts both vital to our survival. Both different experiences, qualities and versions of the world. We are always the dance and dancer. The poet and poem. Somewhere in between lies lifetimes. And yes AI can never think metaphorically so I believe heArtist will live on! Bless you 🙏❤️

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Thank you Jamie. AI can impress, and sometimes look like doing something original, but it can never do the real stuff, true art, because it is dead - it has no life-connection to Source. Syntropy, by intent of the entropic mind-set, is squeezed out. I guess that's why, with the rise of any authoritarian regime, it's the artists, poets and free-thinkers who often go the the gulags first.

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Patris's avatar

Both didn’t have to think at the end of this piece and here I am sitting and thinking about the ramifications.

So for me: great piece. Really good stuff

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Thank you Patris for an interesting comment/insight. Glad you liked it. Cheers, Josh.

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Karafree's avatar

Profound,,, and I completely agree on your comment below concerning entropy. The winding down of life to it's DEATH.

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Shelly L Francis's avatar

Wow! Awesome. The last line left me stunned!! and regulator, not pump. I wonder if the absence of any backups is divine mischief because we need all new code going forward anyway! :)

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Thank you Shelly. It's this Western love-affair with Technology being used to out-do Nature and to command-and-control Her that's been getting under my skin for several decades. It was high time to poetically do my bit to 'save' Nature from technological destruction. You might also like another poem of mine on technology on substack: https://joshuabondpoetry.substack.com/p/man-versus-machine

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Shelly L Francis's avatar

I do like your villanelle poem and the image you picked too!

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Joshua Bond's avatar

Thank you. The image appealed due to a very short former life in robotics in the 1980s.

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