July
@july
When writing was first invented / it was seen as an unnatural removal of who we are and offloading it to an external tool. Plato warned against it, Socrates thought it lessened us by removing our pure ability to remember. But now, think of all the wonderful pieces of literature that have emerged since. Pinnacles of human achievement and essays, fiction, poems - because human culture no longer see it as an external “technology” - it is simply part of who we are
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Garrett
@garrett
Do you think AI/LLMs is on the same path?
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Metaphorical
@hyp
The world with no writing: Who TF are Plato and Socrates?
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Philip Sheldrake
@sheldrake
Writing is simply a part of becoming. Conversing with machines is a part of becoming, and much more so when the dialogue reflects our relationships and contexts, and offers the opportunity for organizational closure (per autopoesis). In other words, for it becoming part of the Web We Are ... https://social.cyborg What do you think?
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Garance
@garance
I often mention this too, it was because they thought it would harm the memory capacity. Yet externalizing it probably created more space for other competencies.
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DV
@degenveteran.eth
All I remember is some of the oldest known writings are about the same thing we complain about today... Our younger generations don't listen to us (them as in the elders)
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tyler ↑
@trh
What’s the brain for? Choose your fighter: Socrates vs. David Allen
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neon
@neonrover
savage
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agusti
@bleu.eth
gatekeepers
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Roadu 🎩🦊
@roadu
they were right. we simply have made a trade and for everything we gained with literacy we lost something else
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