The Decline of Organic Intelligence

A Suspicious Sonnet

By D. J. ReddallPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read

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How frequently does it occur to you

When you pose questions to other humans

And they pause before expressing a view

That this brief hesitation illumines

Not rumination or reflection deep

But the retrieval of information?

Could it be that technological creep

Has reached a sinister consummation?

Thinking used to involve various things:

Reasoning, imagining, creating;

More and more—and this revelation stings

It seems only to be remembering

Are our minds imitating our machines?

If so, I shudder to think what that means

I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.

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