I read recently in a chapter called 'ARTISTS, POETS, AND PRIESTS' by S.Gooch "Peter Redgrove expresses the same idea in a different way. He states that the data of science are experienced as poetry by creative scientists; while the data of poetry are experienced by the creative poet as science.
Science, of course, means knowledge. Redgrove considers it symptomatic of the schizoid thinking of our modern society that it separates the disciplines of poetry and science by dwelling on the differences between them instead of the likenesses. Redgrove insists that the insights of science (as opposed to the grim plodding through the experimental verification of the insight subsequently) are arrived at by the same mental machinery or set that brings the images of poetry".
Thank you for this: personally have been hesitant to meaningfully involve AI in any major part of my creative process for the reasons you describe here, heavy on the high school summary/analysis part; part of me wonders how urgent of a question convenient defaulting to genAI for writing is for our culture/society, and if questions about taste are as warranted as Big Tech claims.
‘What if all these poetic twists are some higher-order pattern recognition of the language model?’ is definitely going to haunt me and I enjoyed the Coehlo anecdote (I had a similar experience ha).
I read recently in a chapter called 'ARTISTS, POETS, AND PRIESTS' by S.Gooch "Peter Redgrove expresses the same idea in a different way. He states that the data of science are experienced as poetry by creative scientists; while the data of poetry are experienced by the creative poet as science.
Science, of course, means knowledge. Redgrove considers it symptomatic of the schizoid thinking of our modern society that it separates the disciplines of poetry and science by dwelling on the differences between them instead of the likenesses. Redgrove insists that the insights of science (as opposed to the grim plodding through the experimental verification of the insight subsequently) are arrived at by the same mental machinery or set that brings the images of poetry".
Thank you for this: personally have been hesitant to meaningfully involve AI in any major part of my creative process for the reasons you describe here, heavy on the high school summary/analysis part; part of me wonders how urgent of a question convenient defaulting to genAI for writing is for our culture/society, and if questions about taste are as warranted as Big Tech claims.
Loved this!
‘What if all these poetic twists are some higher-order pattern recognition of the language model?’ is definitely going to haunt me and I enjoyed the Coehlo anecdote (I had a similar experience ha).