Ryan Drummond:
I often tell Alice: “I don’t feel like I really live a human life any more. I just walk around processing information and responding to stimuli accordingly. It’s strange. But it gets things done in accordance with natural law.”
I think once you start unpacking things in that sort of way – you feel more machine than man. But there is a deep, deep comfort in it. And an immense sense of control and understanding.
Eric Danelaw:
yeah. let’s commiserate. 😉 It’s kind of creepy. But you have SO MUCH AGENCY.
Ryan Drummond:
I think I will always find it a bit creepy, yet comforting.
But not quite comforting enough…because Agency is omniscience and omnipresence, and I certainly have neither of those.
Perhaps that’s why I find it creepy…
We have much more work to do as a species…