Drowning in Solid Earth
Anima Series 6
Lismore NSW Australia 2025
HUMANITY 101
When we communicate with someone through a social network, we’re already disconnected from them physically.
We’re not in each other’s physical presence to experience the tone of their voice, their body language and gestures, their personal energy – but at least there’s ‘someone’ on the other end of the line.
Yet when the other person uses an AI to communicate, there’s a double layer of disconnect.
No longer are we indirectly sharing with or responding to another human being, but instead we’re indirectly talking to their program!
And here’s the rub -
Once we normalize communicating via AI, the last vestige of human contact disappears altogether and is replaced by an automated proxy.
It’s not thoughts and feelings typed directly by hand into a keyboard we’re dealing with, but a language model that mimics human behaviour through a probability distribution algorithm that predicts a likely human response.
There’s no beating heart at the other end of the phone line, no lived history, no physical encounter of the world – just a set of mathematical instructions.
Speaking for myself, I’d rather communicate with a real person.
I’d rather invest my valuable time and energy with a fellow biology rather than with a soulless machine – however clever.
Why?
Because I value humanity. I value our physical existence and the opportunity to share that experience with likeminded souls.
It’s what being human is all about – reaching out to someone, not some ‘thing’.
Drowning in Solid Earth
Anima Series 6
Lismore NSW Australia 2025
HUMANITY 101
When we communicate with someone through a social network, we’re already disconnected from them physically.
We’re not in each other’s physical presence to experience the tone of their voice, their body language and gestures, their personal energy – but at least there’s ‘someone’ on the other end of the line.
Yet when the other person uses an AI to communicate, there’s a double layer of disconnect.
No longer are we indirectly sharing with or responding to another human being, but instead we’re indirectly talking to their program!
And here’s the rub -
Once we normalize communicating via AI, the last vestige of human contact disappears altogether and is replaced by an automated proxy.
It’s not thoughts and feelings typed directly by hand into a keyboard we’re dealing with, but a language model that mimics human behaviour through a probability distribution algorithm that predicts a likely human response.
There’s no beating heart at the other end of the phone line, no lived history, no physical encounter of the world – just a set of mathematical instructions.
Speaking for myself, I’d rather communicate with a real person.
I’d rather invest my valuable time and energy with a fellow biology rather than with a soulless machine – however clever.
Why?
Because I value humanity. I value our physical existence and the opportunity to share that experience with likeminded souls.
It’s what being human is all about – reaching out to someone, not some ‘thing’.