Alongside AI: Metaphor

Stage of reflection instead of singular thought— 

Where, offstage, perhaps in the prompter's corner or the stage manager's box, a cue is given and an actor/voice takes the stage and responds to the cue— 

The pattern is similar to when the actor must respond to another actor's cue onstage— 

But the difference is that the first cue (or prompt) is more or less forgotten by the actor (voice) while in the act of responding— 

If/when the actor interrupts the response and tries to remember what prompted it, then reflection takes place (mindfulness) and a dramatic monologue/soliloquy might ensue— 

And this all takes place multiple times in the brain, simultaneously—

 

Reader-response observations often reference how a reader opens a dialogue with the text, where a narrator, author, etc has embedded questions and 'answers' in the text that will stimulate readers to respond in their minds as though they were in a conversation with the text— 

When the readers realize in the midst of all this, that they're in dialogue with the text, they might experience an epiphany that lifts them out of the text— 

And/or readers break the 'fourth wall' and enter a meta-text or a subtext or even mind wandering— 

Suffice to say, when all this occurs, it could be a 'mistake' the text's creator has made that pauses a more fluid, median-level reader experience— 

Distractions (smoke, fog, explosion, siren, bell, etc) that interrupt thoughts/actions can be thought of as either staged for the purpose of the text/script (which is so far all just being discovered page by page, moment to moment by the reader/actor while responding on a surface level) or a genuine shock like the curtain coming down or swordplay goes wrong or actors fall off the stage into the orchestra pit— 

Perhaps a strange thing (like creating a Jane Austen chatbot) illuminates all of the above because once a reader/actor becomes accustomed to an author's style/voice, the author's texts become as companions for the reader/actor who might go so far as to find other of the author's fans and form groups (usenet, book clubs, &co)— 

But first came Marginalia—