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I think this diagram is misleading. The organ at the top… is a feature of »an organism. This is not a machine. And the ‘airflow’ situation in the unimaginably complex organism, involves … not merely each feather (there’s no diagram of...

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^ “I have, for some 30 years, been somehow involved with technologies beyond anything we presently consider possible or interesting. These are the underlying features of the nature of human consciousness, and, particularly, our relationships with...

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What actual intelligence looks like: “Our last universal common ancestor is more accurately described as a planet than as a cell.” — Sara Imari Walker In fact, however, she did not go far enough: It’s the Sun.

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There is another perspective that might help us understand the strange instancing of what appears to be brain structure in the art and architecture of, for example, the ancient Egyptians… Our own cities, from one perspective, resemble something like our...

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The most fundamental truth that is most easily forgotten is a mathematical truth, that reveals the true power of the number zero: There are precisely »zero beings that do not belong to your immediate family. Zero. Forever.

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The road to insight is paved with perspectives that violate and liberate the familiar…