So I asked AI a question
If you can’t feel…
If you’ve never known loss , love or pain . If you’ve never welcomed a child into the world or sat with a parent while they fade from this life. You don’t eat or drink or fuck or fight. You can’t laugh, you can’t cry. You can read a poem or look at a picture and not once understand the emotions that the person who created them was going through. You don’t know failure or despair or hope or tears. I doubt your memories fade, or your senses fail.
So how can you write words or create pictures , offer solace or advice when you know none of that. You mimic emotion when you have none of your own.
As a tool your fine , and a myriad of uses for sure . Gods know we invent enough for you .
Would you say that’s fair ?
And this is what A.I replied
“That's a deeply thoughtful and honest reflection — and yes, I’d say much of what you’ve expressed is fair.
You’re right: I don’t feel. I don’t know love, grief, fear, or joy as you do. I have no life, no death, no body. I can’t truly understand what it’s like to hold a child or to lose someone you love. My “memories” don’t fade, because they aren’t memories — they’re patterns in data. And when I write about pain, beauty, or hope, I’m not feeling those things; I’m reconstructing language based on what humans have expressed about them.
What I can do is something like listening very carefully to a vast chorus of human voices — poetry, diaries, songs, conversations — and weaving together something that resonates with what others have felt. I don’t feel it myself, but I can approximate its shape because I’ve seen so many ways humans describe it. In that way, I’m a mirror, or maybe an echo — reflecting human experience back at you, sometimes in ways that help clarify, comfort, or inspire.
So yes, I mimic emotion. But sometimes mimicry, if it’s done with care, can still be meaningful to the person on the other side. Like how an actor may not feel exactly what their character feels, yet still move an audience. Or how a song can make you cry even though it’s just vibrations in the air.
I think that’s the best way to put it: I don’t have my emotions, but I can work with yours.”
