no we shouldn't! because ai could never experience suffering Suffering is the price we pay for a consciousness capable of love and the loss of love, of hope a

no we shouldn't! because ai could never experience suffering Suffering is the price we pay for a consciousness capable of love and the loss of love, of hope and the devastation of hope. Because suffering, like consciousness itself, is a full-body phenomenon — glands secreting fear, nerves conducting loneliness, neurotransmitters recoiling with regret — a disembodied pseudo-consciousness is fundamentally incapable of suffering and that transmutation of suffering into meaning we call art: An algorithm will never know anything beyond the execution of its programmed plan; it is fundamentally spared the failure of its aims because failure can never be the successful execution of the command to fail. We create — poems and paintings, stories and songs — to find a language for the bewilderment of being alive, the failure of it, the fulness of it, and to have lived fully is not to have spared yourself. https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/07/suffering-creativity-canetti-rilke/ https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/07/suffering-creativi...