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… like birds who build and chain themselves to cages, and then write endless stories about flight, trees and the sky… never having known them as birds for even an instant.

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We are now in a very peculiar predicament, which is not new to our species, but the scale, scope, and acceleration of of the problem has reached exponential levels that will certainly produce (and invite) catastrophe, if not abject apocalypse. The problem is this: our...

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It turns out that, if we use a mechanical metaphor, you can imagine beings who have developed a peculiar form of vehicle. This vehicle has »infinite degrees of liberty. It can travel instantaneously, not only to any single position in timespace… but it can...

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Some humans will intuitively recognize the sentience of dolphins, whales… or, perhaps even a praying mantis. But these animals »localize something that is more often »distributed. Those thus confused… or »enchanted by the blatantly obvious sentience and...

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There are many uique humans and groups. Nothing that can be said about them, captures what it is to know, or relate with them. Nothing. Except, perhaps, this.