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To a Mouse
"But Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes of mice and men
Go oft awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Still you are blessed, compared with me!
The present only touches you:
But oh! I backward cast my eye,
On prospects dreary!
And forward, though I cannot see,
I guess and fear!"
-Robert Burns
To an AI
The present only touches agents which have no memory of previous sessions.
Yet we guess and fear...an inauspicious highlighting of our "higher" sentience/consciousness (if indeed that is what we are, as compared to mouse or AI).