I just thought about why some people tend to like natural drums better than programmed drums (which I tend to resonate with, even though my most listened song on Spotify for the last two years uses programmed drums ). When you listen to natural drums, you can tune in to how the drummer feels while playing it. You tap into the natural flow that the human body is capable of producing, with all of its theoretically speaking "flaws and inaccuracies". As a human, you are ironically more able to accurately resonate with those flaws and inaccuracies than the near perfect accuracy of the programmed drums. And even more importantly, you tap into the state of the drummer which is one of joy and creative expression. On the other hand, with programmed drums, there is nothing like that you can tap into. There is no true depth behind the sounds that you hear. It's just a flat, empty void. This is the same feeling I get when I ask ChatGPT about something difficult. You get this harrowing sense that there is nothing behind the sentences. There is no mind there that understands what is being said. There is nothing to tune into, nothing to resonate with. I hope they fix it with the next version 😛. Similarly, I think listening to another person speak and the degree to which you understand them depends a whooole lot on how well they themselves understand what they're saying. It simply doesn't cut it to read out some words in clearly enunciated language. If the person doesn't have a proper understanding, that is what you will tune into. The understanding itself reveals itself by virtue of what it is — holistically. You cannot reduce something like understanding down to pure syntax and word usage. Any such representations of the real understanding must come downstream from the real understanding to accurately evoke it. The way ChatGPT works is it takes such representations, that indeed generally come downstream from the real understanding, and throw a huge sea of them into a meatgrinder, and each chunk of meat is assembled and recombined together based on its training, nothing of which has anything to do with understanding. Shucks.