I used otter.ai to discuss the naming of the “digital life” in a stream-of-consciousness manner and form a text that I could use in other aspects of the hypertext narrative. For example, I used the Markov generator on the eyes page, inputting the stream of consciousness discussion on what to name the “digital life” and taking an almost understandable portion that was not too repetitive from the output text to create a new discussion about the computer’s eyes, as the discussion overlapped with the new page’s theme. I input the computer discussing its voice from the previous page (titled: to speak;) into charNG to form its own voice that it disliked, as it would pull from its own thought on identity to form its original words and own voice. I also used n+7 on this page, using the n+10 version of the same text as the computer’s re-attempt at forming its own voice. Botnik.org was useful for creating the computer’s idea of a custom voice, separate from its creator, as it was ironically still stealing this aspect of itself from a famous figure, using Jerry Seinfeld’s words from Botnik to create simple sentences that centered around the man. I formed anagrams of “breathing in”, coming from the nose page’s title, to highlight how the computer cannot decipher smells because it lacked the necessary functionality, shown through its mixing up of the page’s title into words that didn’t make sense together. I utilized the oblique strategies cards on three different pages in particular, as I was running out of ideas. The card “water” made me think of the flowing nature of poetry, leading me to write a haiku for the page on thought and being inside of the computer’s head. “In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly” helped me think of juxtaposing ideas within a page, in this case the mouth page. I used the card to think of how computers and people taste things differently, as if computers could taste they would do so in data, while organisms use their tongues and nerves. I used “revaluation (a warm feeling)” when coming up with how I would organize the final page, in which the computer summarizes its senses and formation. The card made me think to have the computer create this summary, but in the end I decided to have the computer form the opposite conclusion from the card, facing a bleak realization rather than “a warm feeling”.
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