I explore the relationship between garbage and nonsense.
I think a lot of times when you say something is nonsense, it's pretty much saying that that's garbage.
As we are rethinking our relationship to garbage, I like to also rethink our relationship to nonsense
in a cultural context that we are so obsessed with sense and making sense.
I always like to touch the surface of the things that are much bigger than myself.
I don't know too much about artificial intelligence, but the machine that I'm using that's outside is right there.
That has been built by Clark Shannon, inspired by his friend Marvin Minsky in the Bell Labs in 1952.
Basically, that's called the useless box, or the ultimate machine, or the leave me alone machine,
or if somebody even calls it the most beautiful machine, and it does nothing, absolutely nothing.
If it has a button, you push the button and it closes itself.
People have a lot of strong reactions to it.
One of the Bell Labs members killed himself after he encountered this object.
I also like to think about it in relationship to the same theory, and I think it's a thing.
It's not merely an object because you can't identify it, but at the same time it's unidentifiable.
I think this helps to encourage the beside-ness that we studied in the article,
that maybe we should try to think about things in a beside threshold as opposed to a dualistic framework of thinking.
I'll just say why to you guys. Right here, there is a live camera.
Just don't give your back and block the thing.
I'm just inviting you guys to just interact with it and feel a lot.
You can basically take turns to go outside and discover it for yourself.
See if it's just a ridiculous joke, if it's nonsense, if it's garbage,
or if it's any kind of threat, considering that it looks a little like a little bomb,
and flying from Vancouver to Toronto, I was just like...
It also poses a threat because it doesn't make sense.
I'll be curious to know what you guys will think about it,
and how it will affect us and our bodily experience, or just to toy with meaning-making.
Will anybody want to go first?
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