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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- “For the sake of my body, you have excised my soul.”
Written toward the topic: "Earth After Humanity"
Video: • Earth After Humanity
As always, thanks to Isaac Arthur and the SFIA team for another great topic!
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About this project: I am writing a weekly sci-fi story to the theme of Isaac Arthur’s SFIA videos. It’s a crazy challenging timeframe to create a good short story in, and to do so publicly is even more daunting. I’m just hoping some good stories come out of this, I have fun writing them, and most importantly, the audience enjoys!
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And now for something completely different . . . 🦶
😃 This story is the runner-up/co-winner of last month's story topic poll: "Earth After Humanity."
I'm not sure what it is about the audience topics, but they always seem to bring out something different and unpredictable. So I'd love to get the next poll rolling. I've already gotten a few great suggestions, but I'd love to have a few more to put in the poll. Let me know here if you have a topic you'd love to see a story for! Thanks, everyone!
Now you have done it! You now must write the story of "The Man with 3 Buttocks", a rehab misadventure.
@@MarkSmith-zg5hq 😂
@@MarkSmith-zg5hq His first order of business is to aquire a latitudinally oval toilet.
Story idea: All science fiction is a hoax and was developed as a way to steer humanity towards its authors desires! Keep up the fantastic work!!!
@@chrishince8947 👀 They know!!!! 😱
Checks notes for instructions from sci-fi overlords: "Delete Channel" 😵
Rowe: "No." 😃
this is inspired, in a word, I had to listen through twice my first response was simply awed, and the second was super-way awed. the references to so many value systems and classical literature from the flawed perspective of machine learning is simply amazing. it left me with the feeling I had been visited by a Bodhisattva dedicated only to speaking in questions and parable. it has the flow of documentary the implied wisdom of folklore, and a rich finish of prophetic warning.
Notfooled, thank you for those kind words 🙏 I never know when the muse visits. I usually find out after when I'm editing the audio and notice something in the story I don't remember thinking about and wonder how it got in there--usually the best parts.
I was still so awed that I couldn't find words until I read Notfooled's comment.
That's exactly it!
The story is terrifyingly convincing. It is itself the poetic form of protest that the story documents. It seems the Earth is voicing her distress through the only medium that is capable of relaying the message: the story.
It has absolutely brought me to tears.
@@meb668 thank you, I recently found this author and have been working my way through his content. I find so much of it inspiring and deep lessons often hidden within.
@@notfooled6232 my feelings exactly !:-)
I always enjoy your stories but this one has to be the best one ever I hope you keep doing what you're doing thank you so much
Thanks, Gary! Glad you like it. It's definitely the best one I could write this week 😄 and I've got no plans to stop!
Another excellent story! Could be my favorite ❤
Thanks, Lizz. Glad to hear it 😃
Well, I know what I'm going to listen tonight... ❤️👍❤️👍❤️
Beautiful work 👏
Cheers, Zenith! Much appreciated 😃
Stone trees, still beating hearts on swords, the sounds of the past an so forth,
Damn that's on way to create a spiritual ai
Stunning story as always, this is easily a 9/10 I'm so glad I found this channel
@@pentumfarshadow7051 Thanks, Farshadow! Me too! Glad you're enjoying 😃
Yet another thought provoking story... Loved it.
Cheers, Frank! Glad to hear it!
Your channel and sci-fi stories are my best find of 2023! This story is FANTASTIC and haunting, and the rest of your catalogue is just as good. I'm happy to find you, please keep writing!
Thanks, Charlie! That's saying a lot mid-December 🙏😃 Glad you're enjoying. Very proud of the stories in 2023, and excited to keep up the pace in 2024!
Well its far fetched to believe this scenario would occur. How did the bots attain the power? Wouldn't robots have a significant foot print on earth themselves? Wouldn't it actually be amazing to have O'Neill Cylinders, ( if they were voluntarily populated. ) Wouldn't endless war be a given if you forcibly removed humanity? I know these aren't the issues addressed though.
So be that as it may you did a spectacular job of exploring the spiritual ramifications. I loved the Amish guy calling the robot a "talking plowshare" ! The Bulls! The arguments of different groups. The naturalist atheist calling the cylinders prisons! An amazing breath of understanding. And creating what I most love about science fiction itself, thought experiments and new ideas. You did a great job.
as for another idea - how about a war between space pilgrims and a previously unknown independent sentient robot civilization, over a rich asteroid belt the pilgrims hoped to mine on the way to their destination sun. - if you can fit that in a pole.
Thanks, MrIzzy. I really love fiction as thought experiment. That's what most fiction is when you get down to it. I think I could work that in: "Space Pilgrims vs. Spacebots" or something like that?
@@RoweLit cool id be honored to have that in a poll. if it should win id love to see what you would do.
Mate, I must have listened to fifty or more of your stories over the past couple of weeks, and if I took the time to tell you how mich I liked each one, I wouldn't have the time to go searching for more of them.
I absolutely love the variety of narrative viewpoints and themes you use.
Thanks, Tyotypic! So glad you're enjoying 😃
43:21 gasp!
Even though I had a feeling it was coming since the incident in Spain, that name drop was beautifully placed my friend.
Thanks, Colemarie.
Humanity has, over hundreds of thousands years of evoluting, become intertwined with the Earth's cycles. Does our use of technologies disconnect us from this?
I've listened to Chasing Ghosts numerous times and it always brings thoughts and questions. As always, well done.
Thanks, Casard! Glad you enjoy this one. It's definitely a story I keep coming back to as well.
Absolutely the best thing you've ever presented.
Thanks, Herb! Much appreciated. I'm proud of this one for sure 😃
This is not where we are headed but an entertaining story never the less. Thank You
Thanks, Charles! I would give long odds too 🤣 but I know for sure I'll be surprised by the world in 10 years, much less 100. Some of my favorite old sci-fi are the stories that seem ridiculous now.
Outstanding work! I'm new to the channel, but this is the best yet. I expect I'll be re-listening to this one more than a few times. Well done, Mr. Rowe.
Thanks, Mathew! Glad you enjoyed it. My life is now segmented into the stories that I write each week, and this one was quite a week 😵💫😃
Always love these stories. Thank you.
Thanks, Peg! Glad to hear it! 😃
Well. that was thought provoking and awesome!!!
Thanks, Ty! The audience-suggested topics always seem to yield something different and, in my opinion, special.
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Great story, sometimes shocking!
Thanks, Vicki! I know my pronunciation of the Homer is definitely a shocking part 😵🤣
@@RoweLit I don't know. Ancient Greece was a long time ago, not sure how they sounded. Very impactful that you included the phrase for the story!
@@VickiNikolaidis 😂Quite true. There's a cosmic chance I stumbled into a channeling of the Poet himself 😃
@@RoweLit Such a chance is within the probabilities! 💐
Thumbs up,my friend.
Cheers, Kennyjoe!
This is your best story (I have heard so far)
Thanks, N ex!
Your welcome
Written in red
As my old ears hear it. 😍
I love that and look forward to the imagine it evokes in my mind.
I know it's "and read" but for me it will always be in red.
Now I'll have to change my font color, Tara 😃
This is a very interesting take on the subject. Very interesting indeed.
Cheers, Athena!
Wow, that was unsettling. Thank you.
Thanks, MH! (I think 😃)
Fascinating. 🎉
Thanks, Jason!
I never comment on these stories
Brother Thank you for this fine work
Much appreciated
Thanks, Peter! Glad you're enjoying 😃
Very interesting take on things.
Thanks, Lara!
Interesting perceptions as always❣️
I've been to Tennoji Park in Osaka.
Great stories.
Cheers, BC! Japanese parks are so amazing.
My awesome dude I frigging love your stuff.... Got me through my divorce frome an insane cult member.
AE!!! Glad to hear you are doing okay! Hadn't seen you comment for a while and was hoping you were doing better 🙏 So glad my stories have been a positive ! 🙂
Start ing real Good.
Wow what a story!
Thanks, Tim! Glad you enjoyed it 😃🙏
Thank you!
Cheers, Mike ! 😃
Robot: "your presence is deleterious to this planet we're moving you to another one."
Me: "fair enough."
Robot: "your doggo stays here."
Me: th-cam.com/video/Pg3wYUPmB4k/w-d-xo.html
🤣😂🤣
Interesting concept. A thought I had while listing to this was. What's the point of a nature preserve if there is no one to appreciate it's beauty?
There's a vignette in The Martian Chronicles: "There Will Come Soft Rains" which is one of my all time favorite short stories. It's kinda the only other obvious route with this week's topic. I decided I wasn't going to write that story nearly as well as Bradbury 😄 so nature preserve
@@RoweLit I've never read them, I'll have to check them out.
@@sanecanadian2351 Bradbury is amazing. Damn near peerless in my view.
Excellent.
Thanks, Marianne!
"Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil." -Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice 2013
👀 Was back into some classical mythology stuff recently, and you don't have to go far back in history before secular people decidedly become major outliers in all manner of ways, the absence of a conscious connection to the spiritual world being one. Those books 😲
@@RoweLit something to think about as you read old stuff: they don't have words for "abstractions" "metacognition" or "mental constructs". To the ancient mind, those things are a part of the spirit realm. Philosophy and metaphysics are the natural bridge between the spirit and scientific inquiry. Only in the last few hundred years has academia isolated religion, philosophy, and science from each other. Even in the word "psychology" this can be seen. It is the study of "ψυχή," which means "soul" and is the same word used in the Bible.
Thank you
Cheers, Maggi! 🙏
You’re the BEST
Thanks, Michael! 🙏
We can only hope that our mother earth has this kind of “love” for us. But it somehow reminds me of The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells where the people earned the right to be living on the earth by eons of struggle and thrive.
Thanks, Mario! This one got pretty deep.
Hoping to hear about the one who chose sticks over carrots
🤣😂 Probably not a good day for them.
maybe the yin to this yang [yarn?] is an ai word model in near future that is asked to hash out a scientific method ie hypothesize on it's available data then generate tests to validate that - with hilarious and amazing results oc @@RoweLit
Perfect❤
Thanks, J!
Very Good.
Thanks, Scott!
Great story! Like a future AI WEF's wet dream. Some people think that the planet would be better off without humans. But, that's quite inhuman.
Thanks, 😸😼! I kinda like humans, nature, and robots. It'd be a very cool future if we could strike a balance.
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Not Ghosts In The Machine, but Ghosts For The Machine ...
Cool
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Revisiting this oh yes I'm still Mark from the CEN CA 3 minutes into this and considering the language you use it would lead me to believe that you are a believer but I understand why you're hesitant to acknowledge that because of you're fans
Happy day! Found a story I haven’t enjoyed yet!
And the toros shall inherit the Earth 🐂🌍
Cain and Abel bots LOL. The Love children of Skynet and Al Gore/ Greta Thunberg/ Chico Mendes et al.
It is funny that Skynet went green hipster here, Mark 🤣 I guess that's my fault 😧
I wish you would change over to Latin, I got a pass in all three years of that stuff, They didn't let me into the Greek stuff. I liked the story and the imagery, I really like the voice work. The story line did , indeed, resonate. I do not live in fear of AI as I have yet to see a computer that does not need electricity or have a back door. You could, in a pinch ask a pesky AI to do a divide by zero and hope it just loops for ever. What I do fear is self loathing and self important people who would make global decisions for us simple folks. I really, really liked the fourth dialogue with the atheist who summed it all up like it was straight out of Spinoza, God and Nature are one and the same and that humanity and its actions could not be separated out.
Cheers, Perry! Glad you're enjoying 😃🙏 This is definitely one of my favorites from this past year.
Indeed, miracles are everywhere and they slip neatly through the binary interstices.
And they always seem to pop up more often when doing an audience poll for some reason 🤔
Mark CEN CA you are complex PE I spend some time wonderimg what is it that makes you tick😅
PE are you a believer in God spending time on these stories dont want to be mis lead you understand I'm sure
A fascinating question, Mark 😃
@@RoweLit PE way to dodge it
Mark CEN CA but then again😅 you talk about evolution a lot I really wonder there is A GOD IF THE FLOOD HAPPENED IT ALL HAPPENED watch is Genesis History and then get back to me if you want😮
Brilliant. You don't disanoint. Thanks for the upload.
Thanks, Mike! 🙏 Glad you enjoyed.