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Try convincing my students of this in light of AI:

“We live in a world mediated by meaning. Knowledge of that world is not writing or reading or speaking. It is not ‘taking a good look.’ Knowledge is a much more profound and intimate achievement than this. It requires a mind; it requires a mind that makes a judgment. In other words, thinking is something that we do; it does not arrive to us ready-made.”