
Borges & the Labyrinth of Mirrors w/ Aldous Asterion
Art of Darkness
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The Library of Babel
The ambition of this is to completely record everything and theoretically you could get a God's eye view given the library of Babel as I described it. It becomes kind of a model of artificial intelligence in a way so that it raises some of the same philosophical issues that AI art does for instance like what could be the meaning of a novel that had no human intention behind it? Borges has to kind of play this down like it wasn't like yeah I saw whatever see later thank you right.
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