We learn, remember, express and communicate.
Whatever info we take in was encoded in some form by another intelligent entity. Cave paintings, scrolls in clay jars, repetitive voice prompts from the phone tree, instruction manuals, audiobooks, captured in films and portrayed in duets on goofy TikTok videos. Since computers don't consume the content we create, they cannot understand it like we do.

That is because our human experience is just that– human. We express ourselves in music composition, poetry, and etch-a-sketch. Finger painting and mosaics, jigsaw puzzles. Recording “note-to-self” on the new voice recorders with the tiny cassettes, lost and then rediscovered by our grandchildren who try to figure out what that long strip of shiny stuff is. We paint with acrylics and pixels, write sonnets and ballads on parchment and Digital Audio Workstations, play the kazoo and the hurdy-gurdy.

This is what it is to be human. We get ideas from every day life; this is translated on paper.

Even classes on Web Design teach this. Paper is fast; it doesn't need batteries. We just use it. This is a unique aspect of human cognition; distributed consciousness is part of how we use and express ourselves.

Face-to-face interactions involve non-verbal body language mostly. The turn of the head, jump of the eyebrow, twinkling in the eye, and folding of the arms; with the balance of what we say and our tone of voice. Computers don't think like that, so what we bring to the table is our human experience. How do computers fit into this mix?

We can leverage them to turn what we see in our mind's eye into a finished work. That could be a physical object or a video.

Keeping it human is part of keeping it real.

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