CYBERPACKETS: Thoughts on comprehensibility and dystopia

	Must we inhale toxic gases
	and consume our pride?

	Must our hearts turn radioactive
	as our souls mutate into cyborgs
	with in-grown keyboards
	& circuits mutating over time?

	How many of us will be around
	and when this civilization powers down?

	Will tiny spiders scamper
	across humanoid bones
	as robotic-mutants manufacture new drones?

	Somehow I still believe in the value 
	of carbon-life. Even if silicon circuits
	work faster, there's something 
	amazing about creatures
	who take several billion years
	to make a few small 
	changes & despite
	the odds - some
	times get things
	right.


Nadya: 	Some of this is incomprehensible.

Liao: 	Isn't that good? The edge of comprehensibility – where conscious meaning dissolves 
        into unconscious recognition – is the nexus for all creativity.

Gus: 	Ah, I hate metaphysical discussions! Each so-called "insight" merely invites 
        a new set of questions . . .


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from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A lettrist image and discussion by four coworkers about cyber-poetry.
KEYWORDS: cyber conversations, computer poetry, pragmatic integrity

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun:  2001 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2024 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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