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"Effortlessly floating."
"Effortlessly floating." The words gave him a deep satisfaction.
"I'd sit there," she was saying, "I'd sit there looking and looking, and in a little while I'd be floating too. I'd be floating with the swans on that smooth surface between the darkness below and the pale tender sky above. Floating at the same time on that other surface between here and far away, between then and now." And between remembered happiness, she was thinking, and this insistent, excruciating presence of an absence. "Floating," she said aloud, "on the surface between the real and the imagined, between what comes to us from the outside and what comes to us from within, from deep, deep down in here."

"Floating," the voice softly insisted. "Floating like a white bird on the water. Floating on a great river of life—a great smooth silent river that flows so still, so still, you might almost think it was asleep. A sleeping river. But it flows irresistibly.

"Life flowing silently and irresistibly into ever fuller life, into a living peace all the more profound, all the richer and stronger and more complete because it knows all your pain and unhappi-ness, knows them and takes them into itself and makes them one with its own substance. And it's into that peace that you're floating now, floating on this smooth silent river that sleeps and is yet irresistible, and is irresistible precisely because it's sleeping. And I'm floating with it." She was speaking for the stranger. She

was speaking on another level for herself. "Effortlessly floating. Not having to do anything at all. Just letting go, just allowing myself to be carried along, just asking this irresistible sleeping river of life to take me where it's going—and knowing all the time that where it's going is where I want to go, where I have to go: into more life, into living peace. Along the sleeping river, irresistibly, into the wholeness of reconciliation."

"How fresh the air feels as you breathe it. Fresh, pure, charged with life!"

He breathed deeply and the new life flowed into him. And now a little wind came blowing across the snowfields, cool against his skin, deliciously cool. And, as though echoing his thoughts, as though describing his experience, the voice said, "Coolness. Coolness and sleep. Through coolness into more life. Through sleep into reconciliation, into wholeness, into living peace."

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•Narrative structure

•Interpretation

•Understanding

•Comprehension

•Meaning

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DALL·E 2023-11-25 11.10.26 - A minimalist image representing key concepts in literature analysis. The image features five distinct, simple icons on a plain, light background. Each

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Submitted Proposal

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Part 1:

1) Analyze George Orwell's 'Why I Write' looking at context and motivation.

2) Analyze Susan Sontag's 'Against Interpretation' looking at meaning and interpretation.

3) Analyze Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of Perception' looking at meaning and perception

4) Analyze AI, morality, and transience through 'The False Promises of ChatGPT' by Noam Chomsky

5) Analyze Aldous Huxley's Island Excerpt, relating to Part 1.

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Island by Aldous Huxley

"Why I Write" by George Orwell

“The False Promise of ChatGPT" by Noam Chomsky

“Against Interpretation” by Susan Sontag

"Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley

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1) Is biological interpretation necessary for meaning?

2) Is historical context necessary for meaning?

3) Does perception instruct meaning?

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How do the concepts of 'meaning' and 'interpretation' diverge or converge within the context of literary analysis?"

Generated with original questions, using ChatGPT 4.0

Sub-Questions:

1. Overlap of Meaning and Interpretation:

"When does the inherent meaning of a literary work intersect with its subjective interpretation, and how do these intersections contribute to a holistic understanding of the text?"

2. Distinct Characteristics:

"What are the distinctive features of 'meaning' as an embedded element of the text, in contrast to 'interpretation' as a reader's subjective response, within literary studies?"

3. Influence of Context in Interpretation:

"How do historical, cultural, and personal contexts influence the interpretation of a literary work, and can these influences ever be completely separated from the text's intrinsic meaning?"

4. Context and Subjectivity in Interpretation:

To what extent does individual reader experience and perception shape the interpretation of a literary piece, and how does this subjectivity impact the perceived meaning of the work?"

5. Role of Authorial Intent:

"How does the concept of authorial intent play into the distinction between meaning and interpretation, and is it possible to truly access the author’s intended meaning?"

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All images were generated using OpenAI's ChatGPT 4.0.

All the final writing is my own, however, AI was used in the process of brainstorming, drafting, and editing.

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Here is the image inspired by the passage "Effortlessly floating." It captures a serene and peaceful scene with a person floating gently on a smooth river, surrounded by tranquil landscapes and a pale, tender sky. Swans swim nearby, adding to the sense of calm and harmony. The scene blends the real and the imagined, symbolizing the merger of external reality and inner thoughts.

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DALL·E 2023-11-29 13.55.37 - A serene and peaceful scene, capturing the essence of the passage 'Effortlessly floating.' Imagine a person, with an ambiguous, contemplative expressi

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Experiment 2:  removing the man from the moon

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Experiment 2:  removing the man from the moon

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I performed this experiment solely because when I read, I rarely see the characters in third person. Instead I imagine situations 'as the character.'

'Here is the revised image inspired by the theme "Effortlessly floating." This serene and tranquil scene captures the essence of the passage, focusing on the natural beauty and peacefulness of the landscape, with a smooth river, tranquil landscapes, and a pale sky. Swans glide gracefully on the water, adding to the sense of calm and harmony. The scene is devoid of human figures, emphasizing the merger of the external world and inner tranquility.'

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Experiment 3: what does this passage mean to you?

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Experiment 3: what does this passage mean to you?

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https://chat.openai.com/c/bf9375a7-caa9-40ee-858e-4eac39325402

https://chat.openai.com/share/bfaee9d7-f2c7-40d4-87aa-29b068f56490

https://chat.openai.com/share/35ac9c43-73eb-44af-9838-576864296c84

Next in the experimentation, I asked the standard ChatGPT 4.0 model the same prompt three different times. As expected the response, was the same ideas similarly stated three times.

After performing this experiment, I am left a little unsettled because of the speed and quality of the analysis.

In my reading of the passage, there was a very strong disconnect between the feeling the passage invoked within me and my ability to verbally express the feeling.

The artificial intelligence obviously (or hopefully) does not have any feeling in between or during its process.

For ChatGPT the meaning and interpretation are blended together.

For me, it felt that the meaning was understood, but I might or may not be able to convey that meaning that I withdrew from the passage through a written or oral interpretation.

There seems to be some sort of disconnect between meaning and interpretation in humans and in AI I don't know if there is any "meaning."

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Experiment 4: how do you interpret this passage?

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Experiment 4: how do you interpret this passage?

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https://chat.openai.com/share/68a6bf99-2484-4d83-87d7-fd4f0d2f4ca6

The interpretation is ~basically~ the same as the prior experiment's result. This is expected

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Experiment 5: What does this passage from Island mean to you?  Context Experiment w/ Custom AI

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Experiment 5: What does this passage from Island mean to you?  Context Experiment w/ Custom AI

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https://chat.openai.com/share/6a569644-8693-4d08-8003-979a22472fe4

This experiment made me very glad to be an organic life form.