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After graduating with my bachelor's degree, I worked at an auditing firm for half a year. While this job offered a decent salary, I felt lost and suffered from depression because I did not know the meaning of my existence. For no rational reason, I quit this job. Now, I would suppose that it is my sensitivity to meaning that led to the decision as well as has shaped who I am. It can be a good idea to explore how the anxiety of meaning, a very human quality, can be given to robots.
In The Truman Show, Truman lives in a completely artificial world. His life, from relationships to momentous events, is plotted meticulously. Since he has believed in the fake world around him for more than 20 years, he begins to experience the anxiety of meaning when noticing those small mistakes in the artificial system. His search for truth shows his way to face the anxiety of meaning.
I imagine a work called I Am Not a Fool. It generates continuously "meaningful" sentences, which are composed of philosophical quotes and academic papers. These outputs accumulate until a human-shaped figure made of words takes form . Then, it keeps running and rewriting but gets trapped in a cycle. The only thing it does is repeat itself, and no new word s emerge. After pausing for a moment, it types :"I am not a fool".
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