I’ve experienced non-linear time and believe consciousness can perceive it. I’ve also died and been reborn in this body—medically (illness, near-death) and psychologically (meditation, psychedelics). But I don’t have enough data to say it continues into another body. It’s fun to think about, though.

That is indeed the most popular belief about karma, but it does rely on the initial premise that the end of one life is threaded into the next. It can be used to justify the existence of evils in the present as part of the process. I’m open to the concept of multiple lifetimes but not certain of it.

I always called it the weird chicken baby

But you do need to see someone cook on a hot stove to understand that its purpose isn’t to burn human skin, it’s controlled heat is used to provide food you otherwise couldn’t make without cooking. Plagiarism depends on who is cooking and how it’s presented, and is not an inherent trait of the stove

By not touching it with a 10ft pole, you’ve formed a partial and inaccurate opinion. If you’d like to know how it’s used outside of mainstream generators like MidJourney, look up workflows for the open-source software ComfyUI and open weight AI models. If you don’t, keep believing what you want.

Utilizing AI isn’t limited to typing a prompt with zero creative input. Many artists who are using it have extensive ComfyUI workflows integrated with Photoshop, use inpainting/outpainting, ControlNets, IPAdapters, LoRAs, their own art as inputs, etc. Creativity is limited by willingness to learn.