Post by Dr Surekha Davies - ourselves.space

ourselves.space

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"We abandon the body and what it learns by being in the world - the physical world - at our peril."

I wrote about the basements of the @britishlibrary, what I learned there about historical method - and why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.

Checked out the latest issue of my free newsletter, NOTES FROM AN EVERYTHING HISTORIAN!

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https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies/archive/basement-adventures-showed-me-why-chatgpt-can/

An enormous flat folder held together with two pairs of fabric ribbons sits on the left-hand side a dark green desk with mid-brown wooden trimming. The folder is longer than the desk. To the right, at a diagonal, is a Mac laptop, open to the desktop screen; a forest of icons and the fantasy modernist rooftops of Gaudí buildings in Barcelona, Spain.

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