Eugene Terekhin Explores Inner Music and AI in The FASO Way Essay

In a recent essay for The FASO Way newsletter, Eugene Terekhin, a regular contributor and the mind behind the Philosophy of Language publication, reflects on the nature of artistic creation. He recounts learning Enya's "Caribbean Blue" with his daughter, where he played guitar and she played keyboard. Initially relying on sheet music, Terekhin found that the song only came alive when he stopped looking at the notes and played from memory, allowing the melody to rise from within. This personal experience serves as a metaphor for art: true art moves from the inside out, not from the outside in. He parallels this with Plato's Phaedrus, where King Thamus rejects the god Theuth's gift of writing, arguing that it would create forgetfulness by making people trust external characters rather than remember from within. Terekhin concludes that unless the music lives within, it cannot truly emerge. The essay is part of The FASO Way's exploration of thriving as an artist in the age of AI, and includes a call to support art born from the soul rather than cold AI-produced art. The article will be locked for paying members after two days.