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Run Into Reality

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With the emergence of generative software like Suno to generate music for texts and lyrics, I’ve become taken with songwriting. Ideas for stories and essays that have never seen the light of day have finally found expression. For me, since I tend to obsess over every word, the more limited word count makes songs more attainable. Without the need for links and formatting, editing on the bus and train is easier while commuting. Finally, it’s just fun to listen to all the iterations Suno’s algorithms spit out on the way to the final version. So, thanks to a couple millennia of music makers that provide the training data; and, thanks to the developers who formulated the math to derive new songs from that deep sonic well. This song, “Run Into Reality”, is inspired by Dallas Willards potent observation that “reality is what you run into when you’re wrong”.

Alfred North Whitehead on What Morality Is

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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then andthere happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

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Thomas Jefferson on Taste and Morality

Go The creator would indeed have been a bungling artist, had he intended man for a social animal, without planting in him social dispositions. It is true they are not planted in every man; because there is no rule without exceptions: but it is false reasoning which converts exceptions into the general rule. Some men are born without the organs of sight, or of hearing, or without hands. Yet it would be wrong to say that man is born without these faculties: and sight, hearing and hands may with truth enter into the general definition of Man.