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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper had lunch with four others where 83-year-old Harry was considered “the kid” and except for “the kid” the keeper at 92 was the youngest at the table where Bernie, Chan and Lee, the kid and the keeper carried on a spirited conversation about the meaning of wisdom and whether or not there was any of it at the lunch table. Chan agreed to research the issue since it seemed doubtful any member of the group possessed any wisdom or had even ever been exposed to any.
The conversation moved on to artificial intelligence with Bernie providing a definition that AI is something like questionable computer-generated conclusions reached using stored information without benefit of proper identification or moral considerations.
While that might pause conversations at some lunch gatherings, the keeper’s friends’ talk then moved into the obligatory condemnation of the current absurd political scene, followed by a review of what it was like when there were a half million POW’s in the US at the end of WWII.
The keeper’s main lunch takeaway: If you are plagued by “essential tremor” do not order soup for lunch. If that isn’t wisdom, Chan, what is it?
Photo by Bill Stokes