Physical helplessness sold as innovation

Physical helplessness sold as innovation.

Outsourcing our thinking, creativity, and actions to the digital invisible—the chatbot—comes at a cost few consider.

Touch, experiences in nature, cooking food, building fires, fixing things – lost in the addiction to the machine.

Physical helplessness sold as innovation.

And with it, all the other losses that come with a move from the physical world to the invisible: the ability to have genuine conversation with other human beings, with all the complexity and nuance that comes with genuine conversation.

The ability to do this is hard. It takes work. Commitment. Investment. Love.

The ability to form relationships with living beings by weaving through the complexity of relationships.

The ability to know true arousal, not arousal stimulated by a facsimile of life.

To feel the contours of a tree behind your back as you sit against it. To know the power of the ocean by swimming.

To be able to think – to work through problems – using your own marvellous computer – the human brain.

To feel connection to life. To feel connection to self.

To be connected to our life.

To be in deep and profound relationship with everything that is living.

AI has become a runaway train. It has its uses, yet the casualties of its ill-considered use will far outnumber the benefits in ways that we can only guess.

Photo June 13th 2025, Article written June 13th 2025

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