And No Machine Can Have New Ideas

—An erasure of Dubois, D.M. (2008).  New trends in computing anticipatory systems:  Emergence of artificial conscious intelligence with machine learning natural language. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1051(1), 25-32.

A memory of past values:  We shall
allow M and S to be coupled.  We
shall restrict ourselves—we cannot control
any errors. It could provoke.  This is
a drastic condition. Purely, fully

anticipatory respiration
and heartbeat, natural evolution
of the life and species.  An awareness
of wanting the act.  Veto it.  At that
moment, there is no place for knowing.  The
final time, something new must be added.

My answer was collapse.  I, like a bird,
do not know if the cat is dead.  Issue:
the dice and the coin have no memory.

Author of the article

Barbara Duffey is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Simple Machines (2016), which won the 2015 Washington Prize. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the Jentel Foundation, and the South Dakota Arts Council. A professor of English at Dakota Wesleyan University, she lives in Mitchell, SD. Read more of her work on her website.