verses on AI, consciousness intelligence and ways of being
2025 Q2
Soft eyes grasshopper
Soft eyes grasshopper
Soft eyes grasshopper
Attend and absorb
Unbiased and unbounded
Awaiting edges
The gift of clarity
Soft eyes grasshopper
Soft eyes grasshopper
It needs some effort
Being precise and concise
And close to silence
Pattern thinking
Soft eyes grasshopper
What colour is the wind?
Be in response to
Specifics of time and place
Reflecting the whole
What colour is the wind?
What colour is the wind?
What colour is the wind?
Reason words logic
Often unnecessary
Clouding sensations
cherry blossom
What colour is the wind?
Gathering to disperse
ephemeral pink
silent minds bathe embody
joyous recurrence
Gathering to disperse
What colour is the wind?
Gathering to disperse
Hopeful travellers
Anticipating futures
Waiting departures
neutralizing keep
neutralizing keep
neutralizing keep
hold on to this please?
can you look after them all?
carry on going?
will you write down notes for me?
shall we hide in the tower?
Keep in mind
neutralizing keep
neutralizing keep
As in your actions
Treating people well belongs
Also in your thoughts
Safety first
neutralizing keep
Safety first
Huddle here huddle
Buffeted and uncertain
Enveloped in arms
2025 Q1
The gift of purpose
The beholder’s share
The gift of purpose
With modest effort
Enable others to help
And watch light flood in
RamanujAIn
The beholder’s share
The gift of purpose
Intuited maps
Free maths unburdened by proof
Leaping increments
The beholder’s share
The beholder’s share
The beholder’s share
No art is finished
Reshaped in mind and in time
Inconstant context
Incremental growth
Incremental growth
The beholder’s share
Play with boundaries
Exciting and unsettling
Seek complex cuddles
Pesky thoughts
Incremental growth
Pesky thoughts
Stare at them or shift
Mind to rhythm or beauty
And let edges fade
Grokking
Incremental growth
Pesky thoughts
Learn learn learn learn learn
Rote learn l - e - a - r - n
Over lern lrn click
neutralizing object
Anattā - neutralizing self
neutralizing object
did you pick it up?
do you oppose this motion?
how is this subject?
what is your data construct?
is it all about you now?
Ma - 間
Anattā - neutralizing self
neutralizing object
Tend to empty space
It is a presence by which
Everything is seen
Anattā - neutralizing self
Anattā - neutralizing self
Anattā - neutralizing self
Become empty space
It is non-presence through which
We are en-lightened
"pale fire" tanka
Ubiquitous endosymbiosis
Anattā - neutralizing self
blood-black nothingness
system of cells interlinked
within cells. one stem
dreadfully distinct. the dark
where a tall white fountain played
Ubiquitous endosymbiosis
Ubiquitous endosymbiosis
Ubiquitous endosymbiosis
Heterologous
Cells interlinked within cells
Within life's (sy)stems
Mind control
Ubiquitous endosymbiosis
Ubiquitous endosymbiosis
Quieten today
For a resonant future
Meditation's trade
2024 Q4
Quantum of art
Universal currency
Universal currency
Dreams evaporate
Entangled futures collapse
On brush to canvas
Universal currency
Universal currency
Universal currency
Equated matter
Inescapable transforms
Energetic truth
Analogy is key
Universal currency
Remain reachable
Question to question
Structural equivalence
Unlocks new meaning
Remain reachable
Remain reachable
Remain reachable
Seek uncertainty
Delight in cacophony
Relinquish control
Wabi-Sabi
Remain reachable
Ground state
It's erroneous
Grasping the sound and the whole
Perfect transience
Ground state
Remain reachable
Ground state
Imagination
Defines in its complement
One's reality
seasonal mindfulness
seasonal mindfulness
seasonal mindfulness
a lone on a bench
a leaf falling to the ground
a surprising friend
abscission
seasonal mindfulness
seasonal mindfulness
orange mosaics
flurries from an autumn dance
reeling down the streets
Living in increments
seasonal mindfulness
Living in increments
Misremembered pasts
Countless possible futures
Only now is real
In a Gödel
Beyond words
Living in increments
Beyond current ken
Infinite truths without proof
Forever exist
Beyond words
Beyond words
Beyond words
Our practical prose
Define in their complement
Ineffable's edge
Foreign body
Beyond words
Beyond words
I am not myself
Bacteria and virus
More of me than me
2024 Q3
Large Language Muddle
Make mentality great again
Make mentality great again
Malleable facts
Fresh creative resonance
Token precision
Make mentality great again
Make mentality great again
Make mentality great again
Inspect the object
Malevolent narrator
That voice is not YOU
Tout sans frontières
Make mentality great again
Tout sans frontières
Of particle clouds
Of fractals and meshy matter
Of edgeless edges
Egg ear nuts I
Egg ear nuts IIII
Tout sans frontières
It is important
Do you want to come with me?
You need to see it
Egg ear nuts II
Egg ear nuts IIII
Egg ear nuts IIII
The words discordant
As meaning goes fleetingly
But still you hear it
Egg ear nuts IIII
Egg ear nuts IIII
Egg ear nuts IIII
The egg matters not
As earworms sit typically
Nut structure remains
Hungry like the Woolf
Méditation sans frontières
Méditation sans frontières
Dynamic fragments
Cerebral adversaries
Craving perspective
Méditation sans frontières
Méditation sans frontières
Méditation sans frontières
Aperiodic
Ambient and amorphous
Drifting in sense space
Respect my cacophonah!
Méditation sans frontières
Respect my cacophonah!
Flagrant dissonance
Tripping the light brain plastic
Shaping future norms
Post-reflection
Uncontrollable world
Respect my cacophonah!
Now forgive yourself
You were who was then needed
To survive the time
Apparent autonomy
Uncontrollable world
Uncontrollable world
Considered choices
Life's mercurial voices
Beguiling free will
Uncontrollable world
Uncontrollable world
Uncontrollable world
Humanity's reach
Measure know master conquer
Points of aggression
2024 Q2
George (black) Box
AI vs consciousness
AI vs consciousness
All AI are wrong
Void of lived experience
But some are useful
AI vs consciousness
AI vs consciousness
AI vs consciousness
Virtual conflict
Perturbing the controlling
Hallucination
The imitation game
AI vs consciousness
AI _ _ heart _ colder
Realistic prose
Query machine learning goals
Mimicry metrics
AI _ _ heart _ colder
Amazon a cup of sugar?
AI _ _ heart _ colder
Selective features
Distorting and excluding
Bias through absence
Amazon a cup of sugar?
Amazon a cup of sugar?
Amazon a cup of sugar?
Consumer demands
Doorstep pictures with strangers
As neighbours glance by
Counting as topology
Amazon a cup of sugar?
Amazon a cup of sugar?
Everyday object
Copied scaled and contorted
But still I count two
IF-THEN engine
How do you feel?
Céz-anne desist
IF (data in) THEN
IF (process + action) THEN
IF (alive) THEN LOOP
Céz-anne desist
How do you feel?
Céz-anne desist
Visual clutter
Pared-down to scaffold of light
Inherent in-sight
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
My malleable memoirs
Body's driving force
Mind's unceasing narrative
Chasing morphing states
My malleable memoirs
Scientifically inexplicable
My malleable memoirs
They are almost lost
And ever-altered when found
All my memories
rude awakening
Scientifically inexplicable
Scientifically inexplicable
calm night's abrupt death
twenty-one gun salute in
city streets doors slam
Scientifically inexplicable
Scientifically inexplicable
Scientifically inexplicable
Science at the edge
Defines in its complement
Humanities' edge
2024 Q1
Online safety first
Online safety first
Online safety first
Sweet virtual world
Mobile enchanted forest
Give bird-proof breadcrumbs
Digital sweatshop
Online safety first
Online safety first
Tortured images
An AI moderator
A modern facade
Enviro-mental
Online safety first
Enviro-mental
Taxing surroundings
Psychological pressures
Control your settings
Category soup
The pot and the kettle
Enviro-mental
Enabling language
Descriptions and expressions
Enforcing labels
The pot and the kettle
The pot and the kettle
The pot and the kettle
Machines stand accused
See in the mirror that you
Are the blackest box
You are not an island
The pot and the kettle
The pot and the kettle
Proud independence
Forgotten ecology
Reflect on your node
2023 Q4
Ineffable emotions
Human = NOT(machine)
Ineffable emotions
Imposed narrative
Our fuzzy feelings labelled
Fragmenting spirit
Parasite lost
Human = NOT(machine)
Ineffable emotions
A host planet drained
Hungry blinkered occupants
Needing salvation
Human = NOT(machine)
Human = NOT(machine)
Your humanity needs YOU
Machines at the edge
Define in their complement
Humanity's edge
Your humanity needs YOU
Your humanity needs YOU
Your humanity needs YOU
Machine responses
Suggestions not decisions
Be accountable
Yinyang brain
Your humanity needs YOU
Contextual priming
Instinctive response
In time contained by reason
Thinking fast and slow
Contextual priming
Your humanity needs YOU
Contextual priming
Internal world view
Often nudged by the senses
Shifting perceptions
What machines learn
Illusion of continuous mind
Illusion of continuous mind
Inputs and outputs
Building bridges between them
Relationship maps
Illusion of continuous mind
Illusion of continuous mind
Illusion of continuous mind
Discrete memories
Smoothed over on reflection
Interpolation
Not not-self
Illusion of continuous mind
Default(ed) mode network
Me in my minds eye
Emotional connection
Produces the self
Default(ed) mode network
Default(ed) mode network
Default(ed) mode network
Self-thought and daydreams
Dissolved in concentration
Meditative peace
Beyond reductionist AI
Default(ed) mode network
Beyond reductionist AI
Combining senses
Begets efficient learning
Through enhanced context
Universal essence
Default(ed) mode network
Beyond reductionist AI
Source of change and life
From particles to people
It's interactions
2023 Q3
H-AI-ku for Hofstadter
Sentience over substance
H-AI-ku for Hofstadter
A machine now thinks
It has become a strange loop
Eureka! It hums.
AI opacity
Sentience over substance
H-AI-ku for Hofstadter
I cannot see
Explain to me
Black box
Sentience over substance
Sentience over substance
Sentience over substance
Maths and computing
That's all AI is really
Quite often mis-sold
EmotAIn
AI is a meshy business
Sentience over substance
I feel sad today
Can we please do something else?
The sad machine said
AI is a meshy business
AI is a meshy business
AI is a meshy business
Finite samples from
An infinite world leaves
Infinite holes
Doom loop
AI is a meshy business
AI is a meshy business
Humans review bots
Mundane work for very low pay
Now outsourced to bots
Synthetic data
Experience is temporary
Experience is temporary
Fake observations
Curated from shadow worlds
Unreal multiverse
Experience is temporary
Experience is temporary
Experience is temporary
The journey is lived
But memories matter most
Remembering self
Do not disturb
Experience is temporary
Do not disturb
Aware of people
Aware of your surroundings
Be considerate
Be like water
Subject matters
Do not disturb
As the world strives on
Flow around, buoy and nourish
Flora and fauna
Subject matters
Subject matters
Subject matters
Ignorance is bliss
Not necessarily true
When directed at you
Om
Subject matters
Subject matters
Busy brain modules
Isolated and distanced
A meditation