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I have had the same sense as Avi throughout my life, except that I was also seeking it in Nature, organisms, insects, plants, water-creatures and living places. “I am seeking intelligence in outer space, because I do not often find it in Academia.” — Avi...

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Advise yourself carefully. Arm yourself with clairvoyance. Alone for an instant. So that you obtain a hollow. — Erik Satie, Gnossienne #3, advice to the pianist at page bottom, 1890

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If most of our food is poisoned by industry and particularly ‘agriculture chemisty’, is it still actually »food? Or is it poison? What determines ‘what something is’? The word we used for centuries? Or the actual state of the current referent...

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Facebook and other electronic platforms are the ‘frack the people’ version of instant electronic voting. It should be, but is not immediately obvious, that every nation in the world has the easily accessible ability to allow every citizen immediate...

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Trying to remember even a single example of human technological ‘development’ that didn’t turn out to be absolutely lethal due to catastrophic misunderstanding of Nature, organisms, toxicity, and the difference between utility and organismal...

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There is a very specific threat to human minds and lives that has two prongs. The first is this: anything that directly affects what you make evaluations with — by compromising those faculties — is undetectable, since it compromises what you would otherwise detect it...