Lionel Trilling said in 1942 there is “the chronic belief there exists an opposition between reality and mind and that one must enlist oneself in the party of reality.”
The Concept Of When
The Truth: Everyone hates me and I don’t know what to do. What the hell am I? Have you ever asked yourself that, and some human or something once said that “darlin’, the best is yet to come.”… Is the best better than the dead? I don’t know …and that’s just it. Since 2008 I’ve been looking for what I’m going to say and then doubt later on as I’m alone waiting for something (I don’t know what) drinking the idea away in the cold Michigan spring. Will it be a new idea? And can you tell me…WHAT IS NEW…and what will the new look like? Do you know because I’m asking you and that’s all, because I don’t know anything, and in my mind it’s still coming together; everything is slowly learning when and how and why, but mostly when…and WHEN… is the most important rule (or action or the lack there of) right now. The idea of when to delete and when to leave be, and when to add and when to stay pat…
The concept of WHEN is the most important rule. And so what I do know is that what I need is all in front of me and the words are already there but I’m still not ready. Number one philosophical first truth of western culture is “I think therefor I am”… and so what? It takes something real to admit that you’re not good enough yet, and a computer will never tell you it’s not ready to be or to operate on the story or the body…and so there you go data humans, this is a major problem for the field of artificial intelligence. The Frame Problem. It has something to do with the future realization of the unseen variables of possibility in a chaotically organized world. That is… I think…
Adventures In American Writing 