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Tricks of the Mind

When Eugenia Wren retired from her job teaching air force officers how to write a business memo, she chose to downsize and move to a fish camp because when she looked out from cabin number 6, the rolling river was a better view than what she saw flashing by a computer screen.A linguist by vocation, Dr. Wren had spent a good portion of her life staring at a screen, and she wanted to see the world differently. The sight of the water calmed her, and she chose that feeling of unhurried calm over the hurried pushing of fast-moving images on a computer screen.It took her body a while to adjust to this new pace.And when she did, her new life of peace and beauty did not last for long.While writing in her journal the newest resident of the fish camp experienced an internal blip. If she had been a computer someone could have unplugged her and plugged her back into reset her internal systems, but Eugenia Wren was not a computer. She was human, and the blip she experienced took her to a different place inside herself and to different places in the world where she was treated as someone who now had a disability.That life of living with a disability became a new way of seeing the world and a new way of experiencing not only the world but her own humanity.This is her story of finding her own humanity in a time when Artificial Intelligence challenges users of it to question whether being human is a kind of weakness rather than a potential source of learning your greatest strengths of what it means to be alive and live among other people who want to experience an authentic existence.For readers who are interested in the evolution of human consciousness,Tricks of the Mindexplores the mind-body connection of not only illness to healing but validates that mechanical tools which support human endeavors but are not an authentic substitute for life itself.About the author: Daphne Simpkins is best known for her series of books about church ladies of the South featuring Mildred Budge and friends. But she has for the past twenty years or

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