<ul><li>ChatGPT operates in a liminal space, generating plausible language sequences without understanding meaning.</li><li>Knowledge emerges through active participation with ChatGPT, not as a fixed position.</li><li>Users are encouraged to engage ChatGPT as a co-inquirer for exploratory interactions.</li><li>Liminality challenges linear product relationships and urges dialogue, openness, and perspective.</li><li>Users can prompt ChatGPT with speculative queries, shifting from seeking answers to co-wandering.</li><li>ChatGPT's design could prioritize metaphor, preserve ambiguity, and mirror epistemic risk for a liminal dialogue.</li><li>The article proposes a post-representational view of epistemology, emphasizing relational knowledge emergence.</li><li>A liminal design perspective could extend beyond dialogue and include narrative and affective engagement with AI.</li><li>Johan Liedgren, founder of The Liminal Circle, advocates for applied liminality in product design and engagement.</li><li>The article references philosophers such as Karen Barad, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger to support its arguments.</li></ul>

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