Dan Bennett

@comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Aalborg University (prev Bristol, ITU Copenhagen, Aalto) Human autonomy & agency. Humanistic Quant. Complexity methods. Behavioural Science.

cover of the book Transcription by Ben Lerner. Red circle centre bottom, like a recording light. Title and author at top in white bold caps sans serfi

Noble in the sound which
marks the pale ease
of their dreams, they ride
the bel canto of our time: the patient en-
circlement of Narcissus &
as he pines I too
am wan with fever,
have fears which set
the vanished child above
reproach. Cry as you
will, take what you
need, the night is young
and limitless our greed.

—Jeremy Prynne, “Love,” from White Stones

Photograph of Empress Dowager Cixi.

one who assists a ruler by means of the course will not use military might to strong arm the world - such deeds to easily turn back up on their doer.

We then assess the tensions between our proposed framework, and radical enactivist and embodied approaches, which are typically committed to forms of non- (or even anti-) representationalism. On these views, perception, cognition, and action need not involve computational or representational resources. The scope of this claim varies. For some, this entails a rejection of computational or representational models and metaphors in the study of the mind-a staunch commitment to anti-representationalism (Varela et al., 1991; and Gallagher, 2001, 2008; Thompson, 2007; Chemero, 2009). More conciliatory positions instead suggest that basic cognitive processes are without content, but accommodate a place for and contentful cognition. They claim that certain typically human ared forms of cognition involve representations, in the sense that human agents have the dispositions (mechanisms, behavioral over repertoires, etc.) that are required to immersively engage with sociocultural content (e.g., patterned symbolic practices, by linguistic constructions, storytelling and narration).

Kim Min Hee and Isobel Huppert at a table at night.
KMH: "Why do you take pictures"
IH: "Because the only way to change things is to look at everything again very slowly"

We can be precise. The factors are
in the animal and / or the machine the factors are
communication and / or control, both involve
the message. And what is the message? The message is
a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time

is the birth of the air, is
the birth of water, is
a state between
the origin and
the end, between
birth and the beginning of
another fetid nest

is change, presents
no more than itself

And the too strong grasping of it,
when it is pressed together and condensed,
loses it

This very thing you are

Text on page:
And the too much of my speaking:
heaped up round the little
crystal dressed in the style of your silence.

The situation for trans men is even worse, not that anyone ever bothers to mention them or acknowledge their existence. Many trans men present as extremely male. If they are forced to just walk into a female toilet, that may be highly disarming for many of the women inside. What will the EHRC suggest then? That trans men are barred from men's toilets and women's toilets?

The internet has been strip-mined of human intentionality. The people on this subreddit attempted to cultivate a little garden of shared interest, to mutually enjoy the fruits of reasonable, good-faith person-to-person communication. And these researchers used LLMs to turn them back into lab rats.

All things are like this. They begin nicely enough but in the end it gets ugly. They start out simple but end up oversized and unwieldy. Words are like winds and waves, and actions are rooted in gain and loss. Winds and waves can easily shake a man, and gain and loss can easily endanger him. So the rage comes forth for no apparent reason, the cunning words fly off on a tangent, like the panicked cries of a dying ani-

"Let me tell you a little more of what I've learned. Human interactions, when handled face-to-face, are founded on mutual trust. But when handled at a dis tance, they must depend on words to establish reciprocal loyalty. These words have to be transmitted by someone, and there is nothing in the world more dif a.ficult than communicating mutual esteem or mutual anger between two people.

The esteem gets exaggerated into flattery and the anger into insult. These exag-gerations then become outright lies, and once the lying starts trustworthiness is lost, and then the ability to communicate is destroyed-and perhaps the mes-senger as well. As the maxim says, "Transmit their usual characteristic inclina-tions, not their occasional exaggerations, and your task will be close to success.

An individual re-lates himself in action to his society through the use of tools that he actively masters, or by which he is passively acted upon. To the degree that he masters his tools, he can invest the world with his meaning; to the degree that he is mastered by his tools, the shape of the tool determines his own self-image. Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest op-portunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision

Reconstructing the cognitive world - Micheal wheeler

Sign outside a church: "please let your dog fowl the church"