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WHLReview145 Foster Street The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts. TheWHLReview is published online quarterly.
To contact an editor simply click on a name below. To submit work to us please see "Submissions" below: Editor & Publisher Arts Editor/Curator Poetry Editor Fiction Editor Nonfiction Editor Book Reviews Editor Submissions Deadlines are as follows Please read this section before submitting work. Please include some form of identification in the work itself. All submissions must be in electronic form. Our preference is an MS Word file uploaded through the system below. Please do not send us pdf files. We can't use them. By submitting work to us you grant us a non-exclusive license to publish your work in any form we see fit. You may withdraw a submission up until the issue deadline (see above). We don't pay so you retain all copyrights. If we publish your work online we may include it in a printed edition. Poetry may be submitted in any length. Please don't submit 100 poems and ask us to pick 3. Fiction may be submitted in three formats:
We also accept longer forms of fiction occasionally. Please, one fiction submission only per author, per issue. If you submit multiple stories for a single issue, we reserve the right not to review additional stories you submit after the first one. Non-Fiction is just that so lets see some interesting footnotes. Non-fiction should be short, (a lot) less than 5000 words Book Reviews should be positive unless the author is a well-known blowhard. Our mission is to encourage literature not discourage it.. Art: Minimun of 6 pieces. Please incluce a bio and statement about your work. Any form of art may be submitted with the constraint that it must be something that can be published in 2 dimensions. It’s hard to publish sculpture but illustrations together with some intelligent prose count. Published works are welcome with proper attribution. Please submit all works electronically. Click here to submit to Wilderness House Literary Review
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Welcome to the 82th issue (Volume 21, no 2) of the Wilderness House Literary Review. WHLR is a result of the collaboration between a group of poets and writers who call themselves the Bagel Bards. Lets get this out of the way. We use cookies, everyone uses cookies. Our cookies just tell us how many people take a look at Wilderness House Literary Review. Over the life of an issue we get about 4000 unique visitors. The cookies tell us who’s unique. If that's a problem We're sorry. Enough of that. The stories, articles, poems and examples of art have
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then, however we think the beauty of the words deserves a beautiful presentation. Our ISSN number is 2156-0153. Let us know what you think in our Letters to the Editor. Table of Contents OpineIntelligenceAccording to chatGPT: “Intelligence is the capacity to acquire, understand, apply, and adapt knowledge in order to solve problems, achieve goals, and respond effectively to new situations.” That definition applies as much to a single celled amoeba as it does to Albert Einstein and an Artificially Intelligent computer. What is the differences? Well, an amoeba has a built in sense of where the food is, call it smelling where to go, perhaps. It has a decision tree in it’s “brain” that decides to go left or right in search of whatever it needs at the moment. Similarly Einstein used his rather more sophisticated brain to decide how to solve the problems confronting physics back at the turn of the last century. The real difference is the amount of knowledge each “brain” had and the size of the decision trees required to decide. Which brings us to AI. If most biological intelligence is based on memory and physical stimulus then human intelligence is one step removed from that. Humans use symbolic language both written and verbal to create and manipulate our decision trees. Most of our intellectual decisions have nothing to do with direct stimulation like an ameba would. Our intelligence is largely based on manipulating those symbols using the artificial rules we have created to manipulate those symbols. The question we have to ask is what’s the difference between how we actually think and how, say, chatGPT thinks. AI was, after all designed by humans to “think” like we do but instead of using sensory stimulus AI uses the body of knowledge found in “Large Language Models.” AI doesn’t “think” at all but it does simulate human thinking by mimicking a human “voice.” An interesting question is do all human societies “think” the same way? Would a “Large Language Model” based on Chinese be different from a “LLM” based on english. Out of curiosity I asked chartGPT: Would an AI model based on an English LLM be significantly different from an AI model based on a Chinese LLM? It’s answer: Yes. An AI model based primarily on an English-language corpus can differ in meaningful ways from one based primarily on a Chinese-language corpus. Some differences arise from language itself, while others come from the data, culture, and training choices. For the heck of it we have an interesting story in our essay section, a dialogue between a human, Rick Charnes, and chatGPT regarding how to bake a loaf of bread. During the discussion the idea that baking bread was a very Hegelian process so Rick asked charGPT to construct a dialogue between Hegel and the loaf. ChatGPT can become very entertaining if prompted well. Search the houseArtEssayThere is, sometimes, a fine line between fiction and non-fiction. We have several essays that muddy that line, again. I've been assured by the authors that their stories rightly belong here and not in our fiction section. You can be the judge of that.
Fiction
For your reading pleasure we offer an outstanding collection of short stories by:
Poetry
Enjoy the collection of poetry we have assembled.
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