001527

“What they are doing is representing the modes of purpose in relation with »memory, in physical production, commerce, and activity. But only the most deadly purposes, and of these, only the most contagiously deceptive. This, they imagine to be culture. Or, when...

001528

” If you’re not using it to send meaningful signals to nonhuman intelligences? You’re not using it … yet … ” — . . . [ x ]

001529

” Step one: Suppose that there is a network of human minds and that this is most usefully understood as the network that is fundamental to »the possibility of having a human mind. Step two: Suppose that technology, specifically the invention of AI introduces a...

001530

” First, we abstracted the principle of intimate relation/knowledge as ‘context’. Then we introduced the forbidden/opposite of this as ‘pure abstraction’ (math). This is not merely disembodied, but dis-relationed. We refldcted the result...

001531

” ‘Severence’ (apple) isn’t what’s going on; it’s far worse than that. It’s a meta-model of what there’s no way to ensure »isn’t going on. And, to the human psyche, it’s the »absence, not the presence, that...