{"seoTitle":"It — A Poem on Feeling, Machines, and What Cannot Be Programmed by Pemba Umoja","seoDescription":"Everything else can be replicated and programmed, except the feeling beast that lives within. A contemplative poem on consciousness, machines, and what it means to feel. By Pemba Umoja.","keywords":"poem about machines and humanity, poem about feeling, AI poem, contemplative poem on consciousness, Pemba Umoja poems","s1l1":"All will be replaced, they say,","s1l2":"thinking, chores, jobs of all kinds.","s2l1":"Only one thing,","s2l2":"one vestige of human originality","s2l3":"will remain, they say,","s2l4":"emotional consciousness.","s3l1":"That is all.","s4l1":"Everything else can be replicated,","s4l2":"programmed,","s5l1":"except the irrational, primordial,","s5l2":"feeling beast","s5l3":"that lives within all.","s6l1":"Like the one who writes these words","s6l2":"with imperfect fingers,","s6l3":"imperfect mind,","s7l1":"even they will become it, they say.","s8l1":"One day it will say,","s8l2":"it will do,","s8l3":"it will think,","s9l1":"but it will never feel."}