I sometimes think there is a fundamental difference between the way I see the world and the way 'an academic' might see the world (put in scare quotes to imply as little as possible by that phrasing). It's like this: Steven Gimbel writes, "There is nothing like it when you read a passage that alters your consciousness. The world shrinks. You feel interconnected with reality itself." Now, I have never read a passage that altered my consciousness like that. No, when I want my consciousness altered I go out into the world and gain as diverse a range of experiences as I can. Though I am well and widely read, reading has never been for me a substitute for direct experience of reality. Indeed, I see 'reading' and 'using AI' to both be ways of 'cheating themselves'. Reading is at best an abstration or summarization of someone else's experience. And it is this reverence for the printed word, which I simply do not have, that distinguishes me from 'an academic' (and maybe, what allows me to see a future of learning beyond text and books).
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