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Losing Consciousness: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Collapse of the Natural World

Losing Consciousness: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Collapse of the Natural World

A passionate objection to artificial intelligence's takeover of human consciousness, from a lifelong journalist facing the collapse of her own world.

2023

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Why DALL-E should scare us

It’s probably not why you think

Oct 18, 2022

Photo of a carved pumpkin with a winking eye and big teeth.

Oct 18, 2022

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The uses of materialism

Even as a child, I didn’t like the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant.

Sep 29, 2022

realistic drawing of an elephant.

Sep 29, 2022

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Mysteries in my garden, part 2

Where are all the animals?

Jul 17

Mysteries in my garden, part 2

Jul 17

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Mysteries in my garden

Maybe nobody else has noticed. But I’ve been gardening for an awfully long time. And something is changing in my garden.

Jul 9

large kale leaves growing in garden

Jul 9

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‘Dumbening’ and ‘inagency’

I want to explore these two concepts…

Jun 25

‘Dumbening’ and ‘inagency’

Jun 25

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Behind Hope

What is behind this constant pressure for us to retain “hope”?

Apr 23

Photo of person’s had reaching out as if to touch the rising or setting sun.

Apr 23

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The Wind Discomfits Me

“The wind blows where it wills…”

Mar 26

The Wind Discomfits Me

Mar 26

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The skunk, the wolf

I am out early this morning, before sunrise. Frost on the grass. Something to my left: quickly, a blur, a plume going around the fence…

Mar 19

The skunk, the wolf

Mar 19

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Wendy Mitchell has died. I feel I have, too.

I rarely feel much emotion when I learn that someone I’ve known has died. But I don’t have much control over my feelings anymore.

Feb 23

Wendy Mitchell has died. I feel I have, too.

Feb 23

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Two kinds of people

A basic difference shows how people approach our current crises.

Feb 1

Two kinds of people

Feb 1

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N. R. Staff

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Retired. Writing since 1958. After a career writing and editing for others, I'm now doing my own thing. Worried about the destruction of the natural world.

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