When Buddhism entered China from the Greco-Buddhist world of Gandhara, it carried Hellenistic wind-god imagery: the wild-haired airborne form associated with Boreas and the great wind bag motif linked to Aeolus.
These Greco-Buddhist forms later passed into Japan through Chinese Buddhism, where they were adapted into the wind god Fūjin. The Gods took new names, but the Hellenic image endured from Greece to Japan.
This is a superb modern version of traditional political art cartoons that date back centuries. If you are on X, please give this genius a follow. I have zero relationship with the artist, but love her work. ABN
I learned something very helpful from this. He’s been playing guitar from a young age, and provides some ideas about how to think about improvisation in this short video. ABN
The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions.
I doubt it will be able to know on its own what questions we want to ask. In that respect, we will have knowledge or information AI does not have.
AI will also not know what we humans are going to ask each other or say to each other. And only a human interlocutor can answer a subjective question we ask them about themself.
Only humans have complex subjectivity which is difficult for us to figure out. AI may be able to help us with that to some degree.
But how will it help us with the complex subjectivity that exists between two or more humans?
With the help of some sort of brain monitoring device worn or embedded in a human, AI will have some calculable grasp on our subjectivity.
Would it ever be good enough to be a substitute for a human companion?
Is subjectivity anything else but confusion within the human system? Or is it a nonrational transient appraisal or measure of the system?
Subjectivity can be beautiful, ugly, inspiring, boring, intriguing, illusory.
FIML may wind up being the only thing humans can do that AI cannot do. ABN
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