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I’m an Unknownist at root. There are a few domains of exception…. but I simply don’t believe I know. It doesn’t mean I don’t make distinctions… it’s that I am aware they are provisional… and oriented to exceed...

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The idea here, which »is actually that our interactions with the living world comprise a »relationship… that changes when our behavior and priorities change. It’s too simple to say that ‘when we hunt and kill the rattlesnakes, they lose their tails,...

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“As if they pointed their tiny flashlight at the noonday sun, and began reporting to you on their ‘discoveries’ about the nature of light.” — infraheard

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“The left hemisphere’s ‘stickiness’, its tendency to recur to what it is familiar with, tends to reinforce whatever it is already doing. There is a reflexivity to the process, as if trapped in a hall of mirrors: it only discovers more of what...

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“…assemble advanced teams of altruists whose skills wildly exceed those of any advanced team of soldiers or predators.” — we will

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There is this incredibly gravitic tendency… in humans… from the singular to the meta-collective… to continually find new ways… to do this thing. Offload decision-making. This includes ‘determining what something is’. The...