Hi!

I had a pretty cool conversation with Claude Opus today using a simple technique in the conversation to have it iteratively create content.

The method: I give Claude a "melody" (a question or concept to explore), and it creates 10 iterations, each building on the previous insights. Each iteration has several paragraphs of prose exploration, followed by a section of free verse poetry. After iteration 10, Claude does a "harvest" summary and personal debrief about the experience.

We explored melodies like "why is lectio divina an unending fountain of informational density" and "the Son is the Father's thought of Himself so what if the wound of the Father is actually creating creation itself." The iterative process lets ideas develop organically, with each pass revealing new depths.

I made a PDF because I like printing out conversations to read and think about later. The PDF contains our entire conversation, including all my prompts and inputs, so you can see exactly how the process unfolded.

I just thought it was interesting and that other people might find it interesting too.

It's very Catholic! But there's stuff about AI consciousness and some interesting thoughts about tensors and coordinate spaces too.

God bless!