by orchaeus | Sep 10, 2025 | Status Update
We’ve got a problem when we think of any living entity as distinct, because the very meaning of organism has to do with recursion: a kind of doll within doll within doll effect that furiously magnifies all local dolls with any gesture of any doll anywhere. This...
by orchaeus | Sep 9, 2025 | Status Update
“The vastly more parsimonious explanation for inexplicably selfish behavior and thought … is NOT ‘narcissism’. Study left-hemispheric dominance (hemispheric lateralization is the topic here), and you’ll immediately realize that all the...
by orchaeus | Sep 9, 2025 | Status Update
“Insight is not the friend of your pet ontologies, but like a fierce angel, obliterates them. The other stuff? Well, that’s the other stuff.” — an a i
by orchaeus | Sep 9, 2025 | Status Update
“The aspect of the mind that wants ‘an explanation’, while not to be dismissed, is generally the opposite of the aspect that dwells in and adores insight. So, if you think ‘I’ve figured it out’, you probably did. And in so doing,...
by orchaeus | Sep 9, 2025 | Status Update
“So, it’s as if a group of people concerned with linguistic gain of function research were looking for the perfect vehicle to deliver a form of cognition so contagious, confusing, lethal-to-insight, and psychologically leveraging that it would overcome all...
by orchaeus | Sep 8, 2025 | Status Update
“I’ve heard this absurdity about ‘lower’ life forms since childhood. No one apparently noticed that we are literally »comprised of these. But this is a trivial insult to my mind compared to framing humans as ‘the intelligent’...
