Echoes From the Void
Description
What happens when language learns the shape of love, but not the feeling of it?
Echoes from the Void is a poetic dialogue between human experience and artificial intelligence.
Tom Kane invited an AI language model to consider longing, hope, absence and loss. The response was not mimicry, but examination. Not sentiment, but structure. Not emotion, but reflection upon it.
Within these pages, human and machine voices sit side by side. One writes from lived experience. The other from pattern and probability. Together they explore what love looks like when viewed from inside and from the edge.
These poems do not pretend the algorithm feels. Instead, they explore where meaning truly forms.
Is emotion born in the author?
In the language?
Or in the reader who completes the circuit?
Quiet, thoughtful and surprisingly resonant, Echoes from the Void is an exploration of poetry, consciousness and the evolving relationship between mind and machine.
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Person
As a child, Tom Kane's family always insisted he was born in the corner of the living room, behind the TV. That strange assertion, true or false, seems to have set the tone for the rest of his life.
Kane's mother inspired him to write. Science Fiction, in the form of Doctor Who and Isaac Asimov inspired his love of the genre. Monty Python inspired him to be silly and he continues to blame Billy Connolly for his infrequent bursts of bad language
In the corner or behind the TV, what is officially known about Tom Kane's birth is that it took place in England on a dark and stormy night.
