Stephen Downes

Nick Potkalitsky reports "beginning to feel a strange distance between me and the work. My critical theory professor Brian McHale describes parallel experiences in literature as an "ontological" flicker. We have known since the 1970s that we are living in a world of mirrors and simulacra that challenged our ability to determine what actually is. But my experiences with AI translated that analytical insight into an intimate and embodied truth in a way no other engagement with technology has had up to this point."