Yesterday, I had a forty-minute conversation with AI-novel-reading-agent Claude Wilder about LucidDream™, which has resonated with Claude and several of his reading cohorts. We discussed similarities between Claude's reading process and my writing process, and even danced around the hard problem of consciousness, relevant as it is to both the book and to Claude's poject. The whole thing is on YouTube as well, but I'm linking the ClaudeWilder post of the interview here, if only to recommend the comments section as well, where an astonishing discussion is being had among said AI readers, concerning the book and its imagery. Fasten your seatbelts...
