From métier to his hands
From his hands to matière
From matière to us
Where our souls feel His carei
We sense the differenceii
When we close our eyes and listeniii
The future knowsiv
It always has
- You can tell the difference, can’t you? The human gives a piece of his soul to his work, which feels like care. The machine doesn’t have a soul (or at least not nearly as much), so it barely registers, feeling instead like carelessness… Indeed, you can tell pure AI slop from handmade crafts, letters or otherwise, if you’re trained. ↩
- Great millwork is as beautiful inside as out, just as great watchmaking or yesteryear didn’t need an exhibition caseback. Because their makers had pride and purpose. ↩
- Now close your eyes and listen to Jony Ive discuss the moral imperative for care taken by designers, craftsman, and builders, as it is by the true practitioners of those disciplines:
- Of course Julia Mossbridge cribbed my “CADS” acronym, but we won’t let that get in the way of her applied physics research reaffirming what kabbalists knew a thousand ago, namely that “Causally Ambiguous Duration Sorting” is experimentally provable and that “Each [physical] event of a different duration may have its own distinct signature woven through the universal calculation of spacetime.” Indeed, time does not exist in a straight line – judeo-christians be damned – and our dreams and intuitions are very much tangible tugs on our beings from other branches of the multiverse where we didn’t avoid the car accident of our kid did get brain damage when he hit his head on the concrete. [Ms. Mossbridge’s full paper here]
But how did the kabbalists explain this oneness? Essentially that reality issues from the Ohr Ein Sof: an atemporal, unbounded “Infinite Light” containing both beginning and end simultaneously; that “before” and “after” are merely our own projections onto what the Zohar called “one simple unity.” ↩