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This is hilarious. And depressing! It reminds me of a point I made last year: that while "AI is Weird," that weirdness is always in a complex relationship with the banal. Weird and Banal are the new polarity!

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Feb 22Liked by Erik Davis

Great summation of his theology and ethics.

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Always so good!

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Feb 21Liked by Erik Davis

love this article. thanks for sharing it

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This is just far out! PKD has such an amazing imagination. Always my favorite SCI Fi author, he molded my mind in such grand

novelty, I not recovered yet. 😆

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Glad you enjoyed it. I love that phrase: a mind molded in such grand novelty....

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This piece made me get PKD in a new way. I hadn't seen the 'spiritual subversive' in him before... I guess he oscillated between some kind of ragged faith (of the 'negative capability' variety) and

a despairing nihilism...But I had mainly felt more the latter in his work...Thank you!

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PKD's mature religious orientation did have a ragged and subversive quality, as he empathized with the underdog. In other ways his faith was a kind of auto-generated fiction that attempted to lift him out of despair. Lots going on, for sure, but he was never a mere nihilist.

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