The intellectual dies the moment he loses that characteristic curiosity of the young student, thirsty to learn. Intellectual activity itself is based on nothing else: it requires permanent effort, enthusiasm for the unknown and the will to investigate and understand it. That’s why, no matter what happens to them, the intellectual must never allow this flame to go out, otherwise he will go out with it.
Category: Notes
What the Latest Artificial Intelligence Does
What the latest artificial intelligence does is impressive. What we envision it can do, or rather, what we surely know it will do in a short time, is even more so. For this reason, many suspect that literature is under threat, or that authors will somehow be “overtaken” by the machine and become irrelevant. This is certainly untrue. Advance as much as it can, improve as much as it can, but artificial intelligence will never get rid of the adjective that is attached to it. For this reason there will always be a limit to what it can do, there will always be the impossibility of it expressing something that manifests an individual, real and unique experience, something that serves as the embodiment of a consciousness that evolves and registers itself in time through letters. And may this intelligence improve! May it reach levels of spectacular accuracy! Then it will be clearer than ever what is artifice in art and what is substance.
There Are Age Groups in Which the Accumulation…
It is curious to note that there are age groups in which the accumulation of experience very often leads to similar decisive movements. Adulthood is preceded by a decision that corroborates or definitively breaks with the aspirations of adolescence; middle age reinforces this decision or, in cases where it has been postponed, violently oppresses due to the cowardice of postponement; old age arrives with the unique possibility of synthesis or, at the very least, with the last possibility of affirmation along untrodden paths. And it is repeatedly noted that these frameworks, supported by similar classes of experience, produce results that are also similar in content, although individualized depending on the routes taken. The age factor is therefore fundamental and extremely instructive in analyzing man.
Every Profession Requires Something Beyond…
From a certain point on, every profession requires something beyond mere convenience in order to be carried out properly. This is usually the case when novelty disappears from the routine, which becomes the execution of tasks already carried out the day before. Then, if there is no motivator beyond what one gets out of doing them, if one does not derive some satisfaction from the daily exercise itself, the job becomes unbearable, the exercise becomes tedious, distressing, torturous. So it seems that the dissatisfied person has to choose between two things: abandon it or succumb to it. Therefore, it is not possible to give other advice than that a profession should be chosen above all with a view to the satisfaction that can be derived from it: in the end, everything else that can be obtained from it will be linked to the existence of this possibility, or not.