Duncan Keegan

Yeah.

Again, this is not something for this talk, but the way I see it with Rory and any number of people who've lost someone, I think...

it's almost like the presence of their body isn't there, but there are moments when it's almost like they've moved from the perfect body and presence that they had there into the world around us.

And that is the thing about this, the artificial intelligence side of things and that move to screens and that move to

removing the friction of the world through the latest app or the latest function.

It's like, it's constantly pulling our attentions away, distractions away from what it means to be present in the world.

Yeah, it's almost, it's that whole, it drives me crazy.

The self-overcoming of humanity, the transhumanist nonsense of like, we can improve ourselves so that we are no longer even humans.

I want also to allow for a stronger contrast between the positive representation of what AI companions or whatever could be for people with the frailty and the feelings of being a human.

When someone dies in Ireland, one of the ways of saying it, that someone has gone on the way of truth, of the great truth.

Slí na fíorne, or slí na fíorne, or rúri immeháir slí na fíorne.

It's gone on the way of truth.

And that is the great truth, isn't it?

The one we don't know.

Seriously, Kelly, thank you so much for a chance to share our story with other people and to, you know, there's very little consolation in the events that happen in certain people's lives, but one of them is maybe to be able to share a story that touches other people and in some way helps them feel less alone.

Duncan Keegan.

Whatever extraordinary help we can get from these tools

It's to maybe look at how the frictions and the flaws and the failings are those very moments that we need to be careful not to lose in the rush to do this.

These are moments that just, they mark out a life, and it's just, I suppose, to evoke that in people, for them to remember that there is a lot at stake with this.