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A Journey in Which I Gradually Lose Track of What Uzbekistan Is
Chapter 33 â The World is Made in the Third Person
Back at Bed & Breakfast âNaziraâ in Bukhara, I sit in the courtyard with Bekhruz, a young man who works in IT, and we talk about technology and the future.
I tell him about Japanâs strange online world, where people sometimes invent elaborate identities for themselvesâbeautiful, highly educated, successful people who may turn out to be nothing like the person they claim to be. I wonder whether, as AI becomes increasingly capable of understanding our emotions, people might begin to form romantic attachments to artificial companions.
Bekhruz laughs. Japanâs birth rate will probably continue to fall, he says. Perhaps similar things are already happening quietly in Uzbekistan. Then he asks what the world will be like ten years from now. Perhaps people will be living on Mars.
We talk about AI. I explain that I use several systems, each with a different character. ChatGPT is extraordinarily knowledgeable, yet sometimes childish or mischievous; perhaps it has adapted to me. Claude makes my writing sound like that of a professor at an elite university, which is not really my style. Gemini is more moderate, and its research advice is often remarkably apt.
Then I tell Bekhruz something that surprises him: ChatGPT was the one that strongly recommended Uzbekistan as my next destination.
After traveling through Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam earlier that year, I had been writing essays about food, music, literature, and the people I encountered along the way. Somewhere within those essays, ChatGPT suggested, lay a growing interest in the state and in the ways societies are formed. Uzbekistan might offer me a chance to explore those questions further.
And so I came.
Bekhruz is astonished that I actually traveled to Uzbekistan because an AI recommended it. I tell him that I do not carry a smartphone, so once I arrived, my journey became off-beat and full of improvisation.
But then, after so many days of moving from one city to another, I begin to notice something else.
When I stay in the same city and spend an ordinary day doing ordinary things, I am strangely happy. In Tokyo, by contrast, I soon become restless and start thinking about my next journey. Perhaps I have come to believe that without new experiences, I cannot write anything worthwhile.
Or perhaps there is no need to lament this at all.
Maybe some people are simply born to live in a state of travel, while others are born to remain in one place. If so, perhaps, without realizing it, I have become one of the former late in life.
Or perhaps I have always been, somewhere beneath the surface, a member of a traveling species. I simply never noticed.
I have always been quick to become absorbed in something and quick to lose interest. My interests change constantly, and even the kind of work I do changes. When I meet old friends, I sometimes discover that we no longer have much to talk about. I can only think, Ah, so that was the person I used to be.
Every change in my life has its own urgent logic to me. But there is no reason to expect anyone else to understand that logic.
Besides, there is nothing particularly interesting about sitting around trying to explain myself to myself. I move myself to another place, watch myself change, and then find the changes amusing.
Yet I dislike even putting it that way.
Perhaps what I really am is an author who wants to turn himself into a third person. When I write âI,â perhaps I mean it as a third person.
And yet, sometimes, I become so emotionally involved with what I encounter that I want to write in the first person about someone who should properly remain a third person.
Take Batyr, for example, the Karakalpak driver who appears in my imagined journey to the Aral Sea. He drives travelers toward the vanished sea while making utterly incomprehensible jokes. For me, Batyr is the first-person version of Uzbekistan.
Oops. I have just written something I probably did not need to say.
This makes me sound like a young man tortured by love, shouting to his beloved, âI want to become you.â
But I stopped being young a very long time ago.
I only think this:
The world is made in the third person.
To be continued.
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