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I don\u2019t make New Year\u2019s resolutions, but am motivated to get into a writing habit. Yesterday, I was part of a discussion about it on Mastodon, started by Kate Bowles<\/a> where I jumped in<\/a> and suddenly realized \u2014 inspired by yesterday\u2019s post \u2014 that I want to write. I want to be one of the people who find writing a necessity and something one must do in order to think properly. We\u2019ll see if it actually becomes a daily habit, but for now, I will try.<\/p>\n

But why?<\/em><\/p>\n

Much of it has to do with my field \u2014 pedagogy for fine arts filmmaking \u2014 and some very interesting things I\u2019ve been reading lately about \u201c4E cognition\u201d1<\/sup><\/a> and especially how it relates to creativity. Also, I\u2019ve been reading a lot about the various so-called AI tools that have appeared in the public eye over the past 18 or so months.<\/p>\n

The confluence of these things is an interesting thing to muse about. It also necessitates, I think, a concerted effort to, well, think<\/em>. Writing, as many people have pointed out, most recently (for me), Sarah Honeychurch<\/a>, writing is<\/em> thinking and is the one thing we cannot \u2014 must not \u2014 outsource to a machine.<\/p>\n

Thinking, creativity; these are part of what makes us human, what makes us conscious. And while AI
can help us in many ways2<\/sup><\/a>, and become a tool that enables forms of creation we perhaps did not have access to previously, it cannot replace human creativity (at least, not yet!).<\/p>\n

Footnotes<\/h1>\n