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Venetia Mayhew is a prisoner advocate and Clemency Lawyer in Oregon, US. I am so excited to publish the interview I conducted with her today. In it, we discuss a broad range of topics related to American Law, Prisons, the abjectly misguided and ineffective...

000957

“The Purpose of Homo Sapiens, is, fundamentally, to Contend with Light. To raise our fleshy fists to the transcendental illumination and insist upon maps, models, explanations and descriptions, and insist upon their primacy in the very face of their… and...

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“Most of what we’re doing with our minds is so stupid that we’d be totally better off if we simply did even dumber things.” — the third ear

000964

I went to the Doctor and he examined me carefully He paused for a long moment, sighed, and said: “I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but you have bones again.” We both took a moment to process this. I was like: “Ok, do I have feet, too?”...

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“… they are a bit like animals, but they inhabit the ‘world’ of distributed human cognition. The network of human minds is their world. The only food there is human attention. In the same way that ants make tunnels in the earth… they make...