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Please find attached the AI generated briefing summary of the transcript of the above session.
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Hello Everyone, thanks to those who attended the first discussion group. I've attached an AI generated review 🙃 of the transcript from the session below which highlights key arguments and positions.
It would be great to hear people's thoughts, particularly if you didn't make it along or if there are any relevant research and resources you know of and would like to share you can do so with the group here.
The next session - "Is there too much of the past in the present?" will be on 17 December at 6pm. Hope to see you there.
Welcome to the group! No easy answers: critical questions for the modern creative, is a new, monthly discussion group forum that will give you the opportunity to have your say on some of the burning - or at least smouldering - issues concerning artists and makers at the moment. As an uncertain and chaotic world lurches from one crisis to the next, becoming increasingly polarised and divided in the process, we'll take a breath and attempt to bring some order to proceedings. Each session will kick off with an issue or question of note and, working in smaller groups, we'll see where the conversation leads us.
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Unfortunately, I keep missing No Easy Answers because Wednesday is my longest work day. The AI transcript is interesting. Thanks. I did wonder along these lines, though I have no academic references to cite so maybe this is just garbage. As best I understand, which maybe is not very well, time is not a fundamental part of reality, but rather an emergent phenomenon, perhaps connected with consciousness. Looked at this way, there is no past or future, only now: memory and anticipation are phenomena of the now, not an actual past or future. So all these cultural manifestations of the past are just versions of now, just variants of the present. Mythology and history are not being narrated or discovered from the past but are continually reinvented in the present. I don't know how far that gets us though - even if true, it may be an impractical approach. Maybe it's just been a long day and I'm meandering.