Jeremy Moss (MA, LMHC) is a psychotherapist in Seattle, working in the existential-phenomenological tradition. He writes about consciousness, agency, personhood, and authorship, and about what it is to encounter something whose interior life cannot be settled. He is also a musician and producer, a sensibility formed in the Bronx during the birth of hip-hop and still governing how he thinks about making something out of material that already exists. He is at work on a novel, Flowers for Machina, written by the method this column describes. Email: museandfoil [at] gmail.com
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Editor’s Note: This essay begins an ongoing series of columns experimenting with AI collaboration in writing. Jeremy Moss supplies the ideas, direction, and editorial judgment, while the prose is developed through sustained dialogue with AI systems he collectively calls “Machina”. The collaboration itself, and what it does to writing and authorship, is part of the…