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  2. Oct 2025
    1. Here we go round the prickly pearPrickly pear prickly pearHere we go round the prickly pearAt five o'clock in the morning

      bathetic moment(情感突降的反高潮) -> hope doesnt seem to last in the poem --> Eliot 将原本象征希望与循环的童谣改写为空洞的仪式,使短暂的希望立刻坠入荒凉与虚无之中。

    1. Here we go round the prickly pearPrickly pear prickly pearHere we go round the prickly pearAt five o'clock in the morning

      bathetic moment(情感突降的反高潮) -> hope doesnt seem to last in the poem --> Eliot 将原本象征希望与循环的童谣改写为空洞的仪式,使短暂的希望立刻坠入荒凉与虚无之中。

    1. Introduction: AI is now recently everywhere but we still need humans

  3. Sep 2025
    1. frontiers of knowledge

      You are not like high school students, - who are using their writing to - introduce themselves to some something at a fairly basic level.

      You are operating at the most sophisticated levels.

      When I work with faculty on this and other campus, I am

      working with people who are after all, - on the frontiers of knowledge.

      .objection - they are at the frontiers of "learning" - at the edge of knowl edge

      They're thinking stuff, nobody's thought before. -

      This is very hard stuff.

      Thinking previously unthinkable thoughts

      Build tools to help us do that

    2. you are thinking about your world in very difficult ways

      you are thinking about your world -

      • in very difficult ways.
      • This is a terrifically good thing,

      and it's the source of most of the value of your work.

    3. In other words, the thinking that you're doing is at such a level of complexity that you have to use writing to help yourself do your thinking.

      do the writing to help yourself think

      In other words, the thinking that you're doing is at such a level of complexity - that you have to use writing -

      to help yourself do your thinking.

    1. * get attached = encariñarse. * Each and every one = todos y cada uno. * 📌 complemento proposicional "to" = Indica dirección o acción como reacción del sujeto de la oración hacia el objeto de esta. Usualmente se usa para complementar a algunos verbos intransitivos ya que estos carecen de OD y por consecuencia de OI eso es porque estos verbos no indican una modificación ni beneficio al objeto de la oración. Solo indican un cambio de estado del sujeto en reacción a objeto.

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    1. From what I understood of the theory is about how people see themselves on who they want to be, and how they feel about that difference such as self image and to find out who they wanna be and even with their self esteem

    2. ChatGPT makes writing easier and more of a cleaner look, especially for people who aren’t native English speakers. But it also makes people worry and start thinking to themselves like “Is this really my work?” or “Am I cheating?” It can be helpful, but also very stressful to one.

    1. “Our students are coming into school every day with greater needs in every aspect of their lives, including around their mental health. But the support just isn’t there to help teachers and staff,” said Bissegger.

      I found this very interesting because this is why educators need their admin to support them. If they are expected to juggle all the different parts of teaching then the support has got to be there. In many other articles I have read, I have heard that teachers feel unsupported and it begins to be a lot. It is okay that students come into school every day with greater needs, but if we need to help them, then someone has to help us.

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    1. It's more sacred is I it's like a it's like an invocation to this third thing to emerge in the conversation that it's not you and me. In Spanish we have eso this ao that and then we have something in between eso.

      for - adjacency - conversation - emergence - Spanish Eso - Nora Bateson - symmathesy - mutual learning - to - symmathesy - Nora Bateson - https://hyp.is/_V3NAk4UEe6Z6btu_1LIkA/norabateson.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/symmathesy-a-word-in-progress/

    2. Patrick Harper's book, Dimmonic Reality, where there's fact and fiction, and then there's imagination

      for - citation - book - Patrick Harpur - Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - to - book Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - Patrick Harpur - adjacency - realm between fact and fiction - Donald Hoffman interview - Deep Humanity - self / other gestalt - the Indyweb - physiosphere - symbolosphere - this is exactly the intetwingledness of - the subject and the object - consciousness and phenomenal reality - Deep Humanity - the individual / collective gestalt - the self / other gestalt - symbolosphere / physiosphere - to - Youtube - The Diary of a CEO - Donald Hoffman interview - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW0vTZrZny6A&group=world - internet Archive - https://hyp.is/egkk-IvhEfCpxyM0mIOqLA/archive.org/details/daimonicrealityf0000harp - Patrick Harpur - book webpage - https://hyp.is/1iPUDovhEfC4PStyYJoYnQ/www.harpur.org/x1Daimonic.htm

    1. one morning I had the most immense panic attack I've ever had and I just like saw red and just ran I legged it out of the retreat which is un it's unthinkable. you know, in a four-year retreat, you're not supposed to leave. But I jumped over the wall and tried to escape.

      for - adjacency - synchronicity - intense retreat experience - Mingyur Rinpoche - I'm listening to Mingyur Rinpoche and there's some synchronicity that in the live talk, he is talking about the same thing as the monk in this interview - They both went into a multiyear retreat and suffered huge panic attacks - to - Youtube - Mingyur Rinpoche - Anytime Anywhere meditation - South Africa - https://hyp.is/coluBIvcEfCRpD_roJ5NsQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GmQMZqtGU

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    1. for - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

      Summary - Interesting adjacency with another video I've been watching, that focused on a Western monk's practice of Tibetan Buddhism, who after 12 years, entered a 4 year retreat and panicked - His demons emerged in the first 2 years of the retreat and he left but returned - This monk emphasized accepting the relationship with his demons instead of averting them and how craving and desire emphasized by Western civilllization is the cause of modernity's meaning crisis - to - Youtube - Diary of a CEO - Your brain is lying to you - Interview - Gerong Tupton - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvIbLQQ1i56Y&group=world

    1. I'm using this logic as as to build spacetime. But I think it's going to give an even more powerful approach. I don't have to minimize some free energy principle. I I have a more direct computational way

      for - future project - building a model to explain spacetime using Active Inference - Donald Hoffman - use Active Inference to minimise surprise using Markov chains - this model assumes consciousness is fundamental - this is going to be a model of intelligence based entirely from a model which takes consciousness as fundamental. - it goes back to game theory again. - back to the idea of a simulation - If you're able to create a piece of software that - is able to replicate and - is built on the fundamentals of consciousness. - Then it's potentially, it's going to think it's conscious

    2. the answer is you can know it, but but you know it when you let go of all concepts and you don't try. If you're trying to get there, then you don't see what you already are.

      for - A Answer - you know it when you let go of all concepts and you don't try. If you're trying to get there, then you don't see what you already are. - Donald Hoffman

    3. The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because your neighbor is yourself just with a different headset.

      for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.

      adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species

    4. if you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you then you have to lay aside all concepts period and just know yourself by being yourself not by putting a concept between you and yourself.

      for - quote - who you are beyond your headset - Donald Hoffman - If you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you - then you have to - lay aside all concepts period and - just know yourself by being yourself, - not by putting a concept between you and yourself. - adjacency - headset - perspectival knowing - Donald Hoffman - unquestioned assumption of other perspectives - imputation - external observable proxy - to private, inner world - As I read Hoffman's use of the word "headset", it brought up some associations with the idea of "perspectival knowing" - There is the perspectival knowing of a species, - but also of the individual of a species - For humans, perspectival knowing must be contextualized within an imputation: - that other perspectives exist - in other words, that other private worlds exist - and ultimately, this is a widely accepted imputation of an inner private world - based upon public, external observable behavioral proxies - This imputation of the other is a fundamental imputation and assumption of the human condition which we all take for granted, - but because it is so foundational, never question

    5. Darwin's theory says the probability is zero that any sensory system like eyes, ears, smell, touch, taste has ever been shaped to see any aspect of objective reality truly. So the probability is zero that you see any aspect of the truth. Period.

      for - quote - probability of zero that sensory organs are designed to help us see objective reality - Donald Hoffman

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    1. This paper’s authors argue that using GWP to assess the relative planetary warming  caused by various different sectors is therefore a deeply flawed metric. They propose that a better measure for policymakers to adopt would be something  called Effective Radiative Forcing, or ERF.

      for - youtube - Just have a think - new paper - new metric for measuring emissions - ERF - to - paper - Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy - https://hyp.is/CUcbhF2TEfCn1ieAeq73JA/iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2 - climate crisis - carbon emissions - agriculture has the highest of all - AgroSphere Technologies - cite this paper

    1. In other words: it comes down to lack of agency. When we care about something, but we perceive futility in our efforts to change it, our only resort is to lash out.

      This quote is aimed at negative interaction wrt open source coding projects, but it fits resentment fueled populism too. Vgl [[Agency tekorten 20160818092829]] and [[Agency armoede digital poverty 20150819204958]]

    1. Peer-to-peer networks gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s with several file-sharing services, such as Napster and Gnutella, that enabled peers to exchange files with one another. The Napster system used an approach similar to the first type described above: a centralized server maintained an index of all files stored on peer nodes in the Napster network, and the actual exchange of files took place between the peer nodes. The Gnutella system used a technique similar to the second type: a client broadcast file requests to other nodes in the system, and nodes that could service the request responded directly to the client. Peer-to-peer networks can be used to exchange copyrigh

      Peer-to-peer computing is a network model where each computer, called a peer, can share and access resources directly with other peers without depending on a central server. Unlike the client server model, where a server provides services to clients, in P2P all peers have equal roles they can both request and provide data. This makes P2P useful for file sharing, online collaboration, and even cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. In simple words, it works like friends exchanging books directly instead of always going to a library.

  5. Aug 2025
    1. For several generations, stories from Africa have traditionally been passed down by word of mouth. Often, after a hard day’s work, the adults would gather the children together by moonlight, around a village fire and tell stories

      The Same can be said around the world and across different periods of time across human development. Present day, Communities can connect threw the aid of technological advances.

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      Ja aber das muss dann bei effect size angepasst werden (zB Dummies müssen dann bei Effektgröße auf 0/1 gleich sein (zB employed/not employed), etc., wichtig für Vergleichbarkeit.

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      Ja aber das muss dann bei effect size angepasst werden (zB Dummies müssen dann bei Effektgröße auf 0/1 gleich sein (zB employed/not employed), etc., wichtig für Vergleichbarkeit.

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      Hier eventuell auch (oder robustness): OLS vs Rest in Regression, oder anderes. Diskutieren, SUR kann SUR sein, Tobit ist Tobit, Oder man kann probit/logit/tobit auch zusammenfassen. Maximum Likelihood Method ist MLM

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      Ja hier eventuell DiD/RDD/ähnliche zusammenfasen. Hir müssen wir aber diskutieren ob wir hier auf Kausalität, Endogenität, etc abzielen – analog diskutieren wie zu WL-PL Paper.

      Ganz wichtig: DiD in spirit vs. DiD richtig (würde in spirit nicht zu DiD tun)

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      Nein, das macht nicht wirklich Sinn, hier geht es nur um die Zusammensetzung im Sample, nicht darum für was kontrolliert wurde. Hier zB manufacturing (1) vs. Rest (0) oder andere Einteilung.

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      Nein, das macht nicht wirklich Sinn, hier geht es nur um die Zusammensetzung im Sample, nicht darum für was kontrolliert wurde. In dem Fall eventuell Information zu blue collar/white collar/Arbeiter/Angestellte falls vorhanden kodieren in 0, 1, etc.

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      Nein, das macht nicht wirklich Sinn, hier geht es nur um die Zusammensetzung im Sample, nicht darum für was kontrolliert wurde. Diskutieren (z.B. nur low income workers von einer Studie)

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      Nein, das macht nicht wirklich Sinn, hier geht es nur um die Zusammensetzung im Sample, nicht darum für was kontrolliert wurde. Variable eventuell aus Regression draußen lassen (und argumentieren, dass die meisten eh working age oder sowas sind).

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      Nein, das macht nicht wirklich Sinn, hier geht es nur um die Zusammensetzung im Sample, nicht darum für was kontrolliert wurde. Das muss sowas sein wie: 1 wenn nur männlich/weiblich, 0 alles andere oder 0: alles andere, 1: nur männlich, 2: weiblich, etc.

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      Anmerkung: Hier müssen wir im Text dann genau erklären, dass wir mit „State“ dann jene meinen wo der Staat letztendlich die Entscheidung gesetzt hat, auch wenn dies zuvor in Absprache mit Organisationen stattfand -> hier ist aber auch eine Robustness-Analyse möglich wo wir das nochmal verferinern in Mitsprache/Nicht-Mitsprache (wobei das eventuell tricky ist, weil nicht immer ganz klar ob es Mitsprache gab oder nicht, aber müsste man sich anschauen im Fall).

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    1. for - youtube - BBC - AI2027 - Futures - AI - progress trap - AI - to AI2027 website - https://hyp.is/0VHJqH3cEfCm9JM_EB3ypQ/ai-2027.com/

      summary - This dystopian futures scenario is the brainchild of former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, - It is premised on human behavior in modernity including - confirmation bias of AI researchers - entrenched competing political ideologies that motivate an AI arms race - entrenched capitalist market behavior that motivates an AI arms race - AI becoming embodied, resulting in Artificially Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AEAI), posing the danger to humanity because it's no longer just talk, but action - Can it happen? The probability is not zero.We don't really understand the behavior of the AI LLM's we design, they are nonpredictable, and as we give them even greater power, that is a slippery slope - AI can become humanity's ultimate progress trap, which is ironic, because the technology that promises to be the most efficient of all, can become so efficient, it no longer need human beings - Remember Jerry Kaplan's book "Humans need not apply"? - https://hyp.is/o0lBFH3fEfC1QLfnLSs5Bg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiiP5ROnzw8 - This dystopian futures scenario goes further and explores the idea that "humans need not exist"!

      question - What about emulating climate change gamification of "Bend the Curve" of emissions? - Use the AI 2027 trajectory as a template and see how much real-life follows this trajectory - Just as we have the countdown to the https://climateclock.world/ ( 3 years and change remaining as of today) - perhaps we can have an AI 2027 clock? - What can we do to "bend the dystopian AI 2027 curve" AWAY from the dystopian future?

    1. for - from - youtube - Just have a think - A controversial new paper challenges established emissions accounting criteria - https://hyp.is/9AQ6VF2SEfCsW8_68Y6AUA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9f16OTL1Lg - climate crisis - ERF - agriculture 60% - fossil fuels 18% - agriculture is the biggest contributor to carbon emissions summary - This paper uses Effective Radiative Forcing (ERF) as a metric to measure global carbon emissions instead of the traditional Global Warming Potential (GWP) - It points out the problematic nature of GWP and how ERF provides a more accurate picture - Using ERF, the most surprising result of this study is that agriculture is the leading sector causing global warming - Measured from a baseline of emissions since 1750, - agriculture contributes 60% while - fossil fuels contributes 18% - Projects like Project Drawdown already prioritize agriculture, this gives even more validation and priority on transforming the agricultural sector - This also increases importance on efforts in: - regenerative farming - bioreginalism - permaculture - agroforestry - rewilding

  6. Jul 2025
    1. David Boy is one of the architects of the victim compensation program and he's a very he's a dirty

      for - David Boie - lawyer for Epstein victims - Epstein compensation program - lawyer David Boy - victims must sign NDA not to disclose any other perpetrators - to - Business Insider - News Inside the messy effort to compensate 225 Jeffrey Epstein accusers - https://hyp.is/qCXM_mMMEfC1a_NlKIJWAg/www.businessinsider.com/inside-jeffrey-epstein-victims-compensation-program-fund-2022-1

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    1. liberation often arrives not by fighting harder, but by thinking sideways

      for - adjacency - Euler's Identity - book - Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense - to - Google Books - Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense - https://hyp.is/62BFDGCrEfCrMjc4k92e5g/books.google.com/books/about/Why_the_World_Doesn_t_Seem_to_Make_Sense.html?id=tMDvKl8anacC - This book takes a similar approach and makes use of duality represented by real numbers on the real number line, embedded within the complex plane

    1. choice of the right algorithm for a given dataset has become difficult due to numerous comparative reports on these different assemblers [88, 89]

      What does the choice of algorithm depend on?

  7. Jun 2025
    1. for - article - substack - Annick De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - from - article - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview"\ - https://hyp.is/oqgW2ivdEfCmu9M8EYHozw/www.linkedin.com/posts/bayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW/ - to - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipfs.indy0.net%2Fipfs%2Fbafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy&group=world - from - Substack article - Can and should expect a spiritual Revolution any time soon? - Michel Bauwens - https://hyp.is/JDDTADInEfCKmLNKpwhsng/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/can-and-should-we-expect-a-spiritual

      summary - Annick de Witt takes the reader on a journey of discovery of that looks at the nuances of the complex set of entangled crisis we face today, by referring to the idea of worldviews - She shows how the quagmires now emerging are the result of interplay between three major worldviews, traditional, modern and post-modern and how each represents a partial truth that denies the partial truths held by the others - The article takes the example of Trumpism and the MAGA movement to illustrate, but the same analysis could be extended to the many different cultural worldviews found in different peoples around the globe - In particular, with Trump's recent decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, tensions between the traditional Islamic culture and the West's traditional, modern and post-modern segments of society are again on the rise - The insightful analysis culminates in the proposal for an integral worldview that includes all three but transcends each one - It may be useful to introduce Annick to Greg Henrique's Unified Theory of Knowledge (UToK), - https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/ - Gregg works with John Vervaeke that Annick has cited - Regarding Bayo Akomolafe's short LinkedIn note on the word "worldview", I respect both Annick's detailed analysis as well as Bayo's interpretation and look forward to a comparative analylsis of these two perspectives around the word "worldview" - I am also in the middle of annotating Lisa E. Maroski's book, Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language, which is salient here as well

      Indyweb dev - new Plexmark - analog affirmation slider - while reading the passage I was annotating, I realised that I was in agreement with a lot of what the author was articulating. However, I have no way to indicate this match because it would be too much - this gave rise to a new Plexmark: <br /> - Have an analog control slider for each sentence that indicates - agreement on one side and - disagreement on the other side as well as a - 'don't know' button. - This gives a running indication of resonance with your own salience landscape - This can then be used in conjunction with the Indranet - If there is an indication of strong agreement, then the reader may have strong motivation to investigate that author's mindplex, - especially if there is a strong salience mismatch between the author and the reader, indicating a possible learning event

      Retrospective reflections - (See below) adjacency - sacred - relationship with - free - open source - what is your relationship with the sacred? - this is the same as asking - how do you feel in your time of solitude and aloneness? - do you feel deep connection and a sense of not being lonely while you are alone? - to be alienated if not to feel disconnected with others - as it is to be disconnected with the ceaseless sacred that continuously surrounds you, from birth to death

      • I propose that the post-modern worldview should be renamed
      • why?
      • it is a name that is dependent on the second major worldview, modernism
      • while the first two worldviews have autonomous names, the third, postmodernism is not autonomous but depends on the second
      • the word integral is a good candidate to replace it
      • it means integration of both traditional and modern

      • two central ideas of Deep Humanity praxis fit into these three worldview

        • progress
        • death awareness
      • worldviews can be seen from a progress framed perspective
      • progress is a movement from traditional to modern
        • conservatism focuses on the traditional pole while
        • liberalism focuses on the modern pole
        • postmodernism is a universal, cultural retroactive reflection on the relationship between both
      • death awareness is a major focus on traditional knowledge systems but

        • postmodernism can definitely benefit from integrating it to provide
          • an integral, inclusive approach that deals effectively with
            • the meaning crisis faced by a secular, modern perspective that has
              • rejected traditional religions without replacing it with anything substantive
      • June 27, 2025 - modernism - objective reality - validation - example - personal experience - beeping electricity meter

        • my wife woke me up in the morning and said that the electricity meter is beeping again.
        • I couldn't hear it because my heating isn't as good as hers
        • I trust her when she says this
        • I walked out of the bedroom too go downstairs and turn it off and a soon as I got around the corner in the bedroom, I can hear the beeping sound
        • The easiest explanation for these two different experiences is that the is an existent objective reality which each of us experienced differently ( Occam's Razor)
          • the electricity meter was indeed beeping
        • The post modern. explanation would likely revolve around quantum mechanics but if far from simple or obvious
    2. while postmodernism thus represents a new awareness of how our paradigms construct our world, it appears markedly blind to its own worldview — its own postmodern metanarrative.

      for - key insight - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - quote - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - Annick de Witt - observation - adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts

      adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts - observation - also we are seeing the shadow side of postmodernism in the Trump era where "alternative facts" have become dangerously fashionable - obviously the complete denial of an objective reality is not tenable while the complete denial of constructed reality is also no tenable - what we need is an integration, as Annick contends

    1. what you have access to are the information traces the engrams whether in DNA or or in your brain the engrams that the past has left as messages to your present self from your past self and those messages have to be interpreted.

      for - quote / key insight - messages from past self to present self - Michael Levin - salience - high - engrams from past self to present self

    2. who would have known this that your tracheal epithelial cells if expplanted if if liberated from the rest of the body they will make a self motile little uh construct that among other things knows how to heal neural wounds.

      for - quote - no evolutionary history explains form and behavior - Michael Levin

      observation - evolution alone is insufficient to explain life - These novel, artificial life forms behave in novel emergent ways, there is no natural selection at play here

    3. we used a very high level um uh commu communication that this build an I here and like any good intelligence it has a multiscale hierarchical control where it took care of all of the downstream molecular um details.

      for - example - importance of multiscale hierarchical intelligence and control - Michael Levin - high level instruction is issued and the multiscale structure ensures that all the lower level details are executed - like a software function call

      new plexmark - person assigned to each comment in multiplayer conversational environment - have a way to - detect then - discriminate and finally - tag - each sequentially different conversant' s comments in the conversation - This will help with Indyweb provenance by attributing the person with each sentence

    4. we try to understand the large scale um utility of of the of these patterns.

      for - quote - we try to understand the large scale utility of these patterns - Michael Levin - implicit and embodied demonstration - of higher scale intelligence - communicating with - lower scale of intelligence

      quote - we try to understand the large scale utility of these patterns - Michael Levin - This is an implicit demonstration or embodied demonstration of interscale communication - The higher level agent (Michael Levin's consciousness) - is attempting to understand the functioning of his own lower scale intelligence

    5. if we had uh internal sensors that you could feel the way that you have other senses, your blood chemistry, for example

      for - quote - umwelt - Micheal Levin - interscale cognitive communication

      quote - umwelt - Michael Levin - if we had internal sensors that you could feel the way that you have other senses, - your blood chemistry, for example, - you would have no problem recognizing that your liver and your kidneys were this intelligent symbiont that lived with you and kept you alive all day by moving you through these spaces that that we now don't recognize.

      observation - Levin notes the limitations of the human umwelt and a gedanken that if we had biologically evolved (or culturally evolve) other sensors, that could serve as the basis for inter-scale communication with cognitive systems within us at micro scales

      question - is interscale cognitive communication possible? If so,j what would it look like? What's it like talking to a cell?

    6. what unification uh allowed us to do with a uh a good theory of electromagnetism is to say that first of all all of these are actually uh examples of the same underlying phenomenon. So we were able to put them on one continuum

      for - key insight - scientific theory - transition - from different - to similiar - key insight - organizing principle - organizes reality in new ways

      key insight - scientific theory - transition - from different - to similiar - New scientific theories make us cognitively reorganize our experiences - What was thought of as separate in an older conceptual framing - suddenly become similiar with the new framing

    1. for - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - to - book - Brain Abstracted https://hyp.is/Pk3pylG9EfCJA-ent0tk-g/watermark.silverchair.com/book_9780262378628.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAygwggMkBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggMVMIIDEQIBADCCAwoGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMix-FIpy8sXHtTbl9AgEQgIIC20RZIlS1yaYHB2ymjcscJUN46IGDRankNDC3fCPGeuff7MJ6ZcjlCyNRQpGDkd5wZ1HO6ekLFmAxDsOGnaz_3SLpDgkqXGRWVLn7Y1cDpcZ3TQV_nQBTX4Fcj3iYzdmqq2kFoxlqaPOts563eydXLxsCIa7S8FbSBhqdvQgCg1lk0QBImp-SyWKLV5scbXV0FaAbRJmJeFCUKfANHsGfnSVzKvDWx77_lTh__SzxgxAqC74SKR4361Fy2I287u5plBQJwOXqbypumMnJIg_wiTzmhit6OLZhfoXMd84w5sYsCl7gnicPcWi48HzbqxD6WQyIjfNJRG2fBxJTMfq5ORFRVB7Cyfj0qhHG_9y0bxlsF9H5xNbRHyBfpttmxiPpikfi5y2j2FSu4PF4qtzQME_wtqJepiy_6cIA8PHX117aCQRHW2o4BJYq1WkERZcQta7-mNR8vDFUwV0dV3wDJazXVVG3sHhxjR1AyI8edOrM_00Og8-HUCtsNuzv_Swks1T3QsYMgwkCSX6u8RIPUbSEbzfcOXLN_KQy23lRf_zmCjRaj9EyxOPul9t0qADWkhwxlnlZ477xtPz7ePqYfCTLId5aMdSYHVBw-aYL874blz4mbgz-BXpjfni0pNpeAePVVQWRC16k6xpDHtyOpVix4nb8-SazTQuQEKRBLQgmmf76Z_oVmAtuG_Cnex0cM8G-GATTlL7hq_v7E0X5UQfnLli1tu7KHI9qY68ymaSKZXHhII5u3rQ6z7XtJxLDsEAEc9LiMRb-pC7ssE_BI6C37_6G1SvZBp0A3FKjIJ57tjM6Oku3mmvoCLDBs7DxoGMPn-EWEwDXBwGQXYOfkVUC66K-qRXp7hG8YCtztv_4CL5HxynskORGznC1y0B0IvBxCVHkWgMuBKgLOPOTzzMZVU32XZVdXy_WdKuw02k6nUhbMvH0TOvKZv1QLWypzMU0HlWuPbGttUX6

    1. Governments must prohibit planned obsolescence and champion the right to repair. Current hardware business models encourage devices, including servers needed for AI, to break prematurely in a practice called planned obsolescence. Industry and policymakers should incentivise circularity and longevity to extend the life of existing hardware. Furthermore, the right to repair and freely modify technology products should be strengthened.

      Aligns with motivations for open source tech.

    1. or methodological differences in screening algorithms.

      This could have been elaborated a bit more. It is too generic and rather obvious

      TODO: try bringing this up to Todd on Slack..

  8. May 2025
    1. Anthropic researchers said this was not an isolated incident, and that Claude had a tendency to “bulk-email media and law-enforcement figures to surface evidence of wrongdoing.”

      for - question - progress trap - open source AI models - for blackmail and ransom - Could a bad actor take an open source codebase and twist it to do harm like find out about an rogue AI creator's adversary, enemy or victim and blackmail them? - progress trap - open source AI - criminals - exploit to identify and blackmail victiims

    1. anthropic's new AI model shows ability to deceive and blackmail

      for - progress trap - AI - blackmail - AI - autonomy - progress trap - AI - Anthropic - Claude Opus 4 - to - article - Anthropic Claude 4 blackmail and news leak - progress trap - AI - article - Anthropic Claude 4 - blackmail - rare behavior - Anthropic’s new AI model didn’t just “blackmail” researchers in tests — it tried to leak information to news outlets

    1. for - adjacency - Michelin star - Michelin tires - I never made the connection until now! Wow! - key insight - Michelin stars - a scam

      summary - This documentary was very eye-opening - As a foodie, I've always viewed the Michelin start system as representing the best and most creative culinary ideas - It's shocking and disappointing to see how exploitative it is - This expose does tie together many feelings of cognitive dissonance I've seen surrounding it - For example, I saw the cartoon character pose a few times but I never made the connection that it was the same avatar as the Michelin tire's avatar - Then when I saw the history and the two brothers who started the Michelin tire company, it suddenly made sense - It is a pay-to-play, Euro-colonialist system that performs cultural appropriation

      alternative to - Michelin Guide - This revelation is disheartening as it destroys a myth I have long lived with - It also raises an opportunity in the form of a question - ? - Can we create a global open-source guide that is based on authentic, unbiased culture?

    1. Brendan Graham Dempsey explains metamemes as follows:

      for - definition - metameme - Brendan Graham Dempsey - like worldview - Collective intelligence shapes meme networks — called “Metamemes” — which individual self-conscious minds “download” to better navigate their environment. - Dempsey's definition makes salient the related Deep Humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt - adjacency - metameme - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - to - Substack - article - Toxic polarization is killing us. Why a new worldview might save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us

    1. new article exploring the narrative of progress, where the current narrative falls catastrophically short, what authentic progress would entail and require, and specific suggestions for how it could be realized.

      for - post - LinkedIn - progress trap - Daniel Schmatenberger - to - article - The Consilience Project - Development in Progress - https://hyp.is/E3HHGDFaEfCZErPpYGIONg/consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/

    1. Am 14.05.2025 kündigte die NGO Milieudefensie eine neue Klimaklage gegen Shell an, um die Inbetriebnahme von 700 geplanten Öl- und Gasfeldern zu verhindern. Die Emissionen dieser Felder würden 5,2 Milliarden Tonnen CO₂ betragen, etwa 36 Mal so viel wie die der Niederlande. Eine Studie zeigt, dass Shells Emissionen weiterhin steigen. Seit 2021 hat Shell Investitionen in 32 neue Öl- und Gasfelder beschlossen. Ein Gerichtsurteil von 2021 verlangte von Shell eine Reduzierung der Emissionen um 45 % bis 2030, doch ein Berufungsurteil von 2024 hob diese konkrete Vorgabe auf. Shell hat vier Wochen Zeit, auf die neue Klage zu reagieren. [Zusammenfassung mit Mistral generiert] https://taz.de/Neue-Klimaklage-in-den-Niederlanden/!6087879/

    1. Experience takes the lead but it is anexperience widened by speech. One can thereby identify a basic tension within thephenomenological treatment of language: on the one hand, phenomenology subordinates speechto experience; on the other, phenomenology identifies the reciprocity of speech and experience.Heidegger’s signature if enigmatic formula, “Language is the house of being,” expresses just thisreciprocity (Heidegger 1998a, 39

      for - to - book Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa argues that language and consciousness are two sides of the same coin - adjacency - Heidegger - Symbolosphere - to - symbolosphere annotations - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Symbolosphere adjacency - between - Heidegger's position on language - the symbolosphere - adjacency relationship - The symbolosphere is an individual or group's world of symbols - Modern humans inhabit the symbolosphere, - in fact, we spend the majority of our lives in the symbolosphere

    2. Experienceenriches language by rooting its structures in the robust structures of perceived things(perceiving the skin as sunburned fills out the meaning of “My skin is sunburned”)

      for - key insight - language - induction leads to general categories - neonates experience reality as a continuous, unbroken stream of consciousness - To form objects required object permanence - which in turn requires us to impute general categories first, - which is constructed upon a process of induction - based on the raw material of particular, remembered gestaltic experiences - ideas ( and therefore words) are essentially constructed categories that allow us to unite entire series of remembered, gestaltic experiences of phenomenological reality - Consider the author's example of sunburned skin: - Suppose the is an infant for whom the word 'skin' does not have a meaning. - The infant may have experienced many separate pre-linguistic, gestaltic experiences involving his skin: - sunburned skin - itchy skin - skin scalded by hot water - skin that is cold - dirty skin from playing in the dirt - clean skin after waking the dirt off - cut skin from a knife cutting it accidentally in the kitchen - bandaged and healed skin - All of these gestaltic experiences, when accompanied by the appropriate vocalisations of the caretaker who is present that use the word 'skin' help the infant to construct the category meaning of the word 'skin' - Early language training is an induction-intensive process - Unless we learn how to construct abstract categories at a young age, we cannot become proficient abstract language users as adults - By abstract, I mean the category nature of word s and ideas, which give them their flexibility and modularity

    1. Jean Gebser (1905–1973), a German-born, naturalized Swiss citizen, is bestknown for his magnum opus The Ever-Present Origin

      for - book - The Ever-Present Origin - Jean Gebser - to - youtube - The Integral Way of Jean Gebser with Jeremy Johnson - https://hyp.is/gnHv-izuEfCCBZObkKymvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXf2jtl0ndc

      comment - I hadn't heard of Gebser before and found this chapter difficult to understand - I found a good introductory video on Geber's work, especially the 5 stages and their meaning - Click on the youtube link above for a good introduction to Gebser's ideas

    2. for - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - book - review - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - adjacency - Lisa's conlanger - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - Indyweb - provenance - Deep Humanity - language BEing journey - author - Lisa E. Maroski - to - post - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - from 'belief' to 'apolief" - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2Fbayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW%2F&group=world

      new trailmark - summary to review - the word "review" may be a better trailmark word than "summary" - At this point, I will replace "summary" with "review" in the case of book or article reviews

      review - Lisa's book is an insightful convergence of an important but ignored subject, the experiential intersection between language and consciousness. - Her understanding that language plays an important role in constructing our reality leads to a bold and novel proposal, especially salient at this time of global poly-meta-perma-meaning crisis. - She proposes that we individually and collectively experiment and explore creating new words and language structures that transcend the limitations of our existing language - If patterns of language usage traps us in outdated conceptual paradigms, then breaking out of these may be challenging, if not impossible, without the creation of new linguistic and language structures. - From a Stop Reset Go and Deep Humanity perpsective, Lisa's proposal for practical experimentation with constructing new languages to unleash new forms of expression is very aligned to Deep Humanity BEing journeys - As I read and annotate Lisa's book, any potential linguistic and language BEing journeys that her words inspired will be recorded for posterity

      Addendum - note from journal - 2025, May 8 - reflections on Lisa's book - asynchronous communication is only one half of indyweb     - the other half is asynchronous REFLECTION AND SYNTHESIS - Effective timebinding requires both     - Annotation captures interpersonal shared ideas     - journalling captures ours own unique synthesis only emerges from asynchronous reflections of our existent associative network of ideas and the newly ingested interpersonal ones - Annotations capture the novel and newly inputted interpersonal ones     - but annotation currently only applies to hypothesis - it needs to expand to realtime meetings such as zoom calls, emails, socials media comments and socials media chats in order to be complete - Until now, there has not been a medium with sufficient set of affordances to unleash the affordances potential in language itself - While digital media has existed and rapidly developed for the past 5 decades,     - employing and leveraging it to unleash the full potential of language itself has not ever been conceived of until the concept of Indyweb arrived - Indeed, we could make the claim that the indyweb is a foundational human technology on the same order as language itself because it completes language, revealing its empty ( shunyata) quality, thereby     - uniting it with the universe itself -  From the unlimited potential of the tacit,     - the limited forms of words emerge, both are 2 sides off the same nondual coin     - and unleashing the full , unrealized potential of language - It is the provenance aspect of the indyweb that provides an automatic trail of all our learning journey, making both the     - individual and     - intertwingled collective evolution of ideas available as records for. timebinding posterity

      • when we feel in a good state of health and wellbeing and absent of any disease
        • we feel when everything is within harmony in our temporary state of being alive
      • Any disease shows us how the diseases-free state is so fragilely constructed
      • disease-free is an and condition of many subsystems working together harmoniously -aspectualizing is creating
        • a perspective,
        • a word
        • an idea
      • the greatest freedom of afforded when we are free of all perspectives
        • for that is when a new perspective can emerge
      • When we cling to words and ideas, we cling to perspectives and aspects of the whole
      • The teaching of one taste is the highest and most subtle teaching - equal taste - and easiest to be misinterpreted
        • because we are anchored in the world of many different tastes and of measurement and scale,
          • where some things are greater than others on our scale
      • Bayo Akomolafe does some language construction - conlangering on his LinkedIn post on the derivation of the word "apolief" from "belief"
    1. he represents this in his writing with the point um it's it's the uh everything is a portal to everything else everything is in relationship with everything else there is nothing that is not in relationship with everything uh one point is a doorway to All Points

      for - quote - one point is a doorway to all points - Jean Gebser - adjacency - Gebser's point - Indyweb's dot - Indranet's dot

    1. To “switch worldviews” then is not like changing glasses. Or running the privileged finger down the golden fonts of a fine restaurant's menu. It is more like entering another ecology entirely. Or being entered. And such an entry can only ever happen with cracks, displacements, hauntings.

      for - adjacency - apolief - Bayo - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - J. Marvin Brown - David Long - This statement is aligned with the Automatic Language Growth school of language learning developed by linguist J. Marvin Brown and continued by David Long - ALG takes the view that language is a happening, an experience and the best way to learn is to engage in the experience the way that an infant of native language does, with no prior experience or knowledge - to - J Marvin Brown - Automatic Language Growth - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

    2. for - source - Donna Nelham - @Fellowship of the Commons Telegram group zoom meeting - 2025, May 6 - article - Linkedin - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview" - to - article - Substack Annik De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us

    1. science tells us that kids learn better from one from zero from the birth to five years old they're the fastest they're the best at learning model them then just do what they do you can't get better than that

      for - stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning

      comment - ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have

    2. show me any other program that that tries to teach you language for a one to two-year-old that's what we're doing it doesn't compare to teaching a language to a five-year-old we're not there yet

      for - natural language acquisition - age - 2 year old is right age to aim to learn at

      comment - 2 year old age is when an infant learns to hear and speak a spoken language first - reading and writing does not happen until about 5 years of age - When we are learning a new second language, it is therefore appropriate to aim for the same goal as a native 2 year old language user

    3. reading and writing naturally come after speaking only because speaking follows closely on the heels of understanding yeah so what do you focus on build your understanding

      for - language training - answer - to - question - about listening and speaking first

      comments - In human evolution, speaking and listening came long before reading and writing. - Our written language is based on sequential phonetic sounds of our spoken language, so it naturally makes sense to learn the spoken language first

    4. for - natural language acquisition - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - youtube - interview - David Long - Automatic Language Growth - from - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - https://hyp.is/Ls_IbCpbEfCEqEfjBlJ8hw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

      summary - The key takeaway is that even as adults, we have retained our innate language learning skill which requires simply treating a new language as a new, novel experience that we can apprehend naturally simply by experiencing it like the way we did when we were exposed to our first, native language - We didn't know what a "language" was theoretically when we were infants, but we simply fell into the experience and played with the experiences and our primary caretakers guided us - We didn't know grammar and rules of language, we just learned innately

    1. for - natural language acquisition - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - to - book - From the Outside In - linguist - J. Marvin Brown - https://hyp.is/PjtjBipbEfCr4ieLB5y1Ew/files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED501257.pdf - quote - When I speak in Thai, I think in Thai - J. Marvin Brown

      summary - This video summarizes the remarkable life of linguist J. Marvin Brown, who spent a lifetime trying to understand how to learn a second language and to use it the way a natural language user does - After a lifetime of research and trying out various teaching and learning methods, he finally realized that adults all have the abilitty to learn a new language in the same way any infant does, naturally through listening and watching - The key was to not bring in conscious thinking of an adult and immerse oneself in - This seems like a highly relevant clue to language creation and to linguistic BEing journeys - to - youtube - Interview with David Long - Automatic Language Growth - https://hyp.is/GRPUHipvEfCVEaMaLSU-BA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhIM2Vt-Cc

    1. Drei führende Klimawissenschaftler kritisieren die Illusion der "Net Zero-Politiken", die darauf setzen, das 1,5°-Ziel durch die Entfernung von CO2 aus der Atmosphäre zu erreichen. Sie werfen vielen ihrer KollegInnen vor, unrealistischen Konzepten nicht offen entgegenzutreten, um ihren politischen Einfluss nicht zu verlieren. Sie kritisieren auch die bisherigen Integrated Assessment Models des Weltklimarats, die von der Voraussetzung ausgehen würde, die Klimakatastrophe ließe sich mit marktwirtschaftlichen Mitteln beheben und fordern auf, deutlich zu sagen, dass sich eine Erhitzung der Erde auf 3 und mehr Grad nicht durch kleine Schritte, sondern nur durch einen Bruch mit dem bisherigen Wirtschaftssystem erreichen lässt.

      Anstatt uns unseren Zweifeln zu stellen, beschlossen wir Wissenschaftler, immer aufwändigere Fantasiewelten zu konstruieren, in denen wir sicher wären. Der Preis, den wir für unsere Feigheit zahlen mussten: Wir mussten den Mund halten über die immer größer werdende Absurdität der geforderten Kohlendioxid-Entfernung im planetarischen Maßstab.

      Greta Thunberg hat diesen Aufsatz als einen wichtigsten und informativsten Texte zur Klima- und ökologischen Krise bezeichnet.

      Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap. Thread von Greta dazu auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1385869663188492290

  9. Apr 2025
    1. If we want to participate with Gaia in her grand adventure, then we mightneed to be able to communicate with the trees and the birds and the microbes

      for - inter-species communication - to - Earth Species Project (ESP) - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKIJpIaZfg - adjacency - interspecies communications - symbiocene - Deep Humanity interspecies communication BEing journey

    2. he processby which those previously independent organisms came together to form neworganisms is called endosymbiosis. The process of endosymbiosis was first pos-tulated in the early 20 th century but verified later by Lynn Margulis, who wasalso instrumental in developing the Gaia theory with chemist James Lovelock.

      for - definition - endosymbiosis - to - explainer video on Major Evolutionary Transitions - https://hyp.is/zXozbCT8EfCSIF_rc_6riQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfNEHl44hc - adjacency - major evolutionary transition - endosymbiosis

    3. Spatiosubobjectivity pertains to the commingling or fusion of subject, object, andspace.35 Rosen characterizes it as a dynamic process, or dialectical interplay, oneevident even at microdimensions. It is not an amalgamated “thing.” It is notlike me or you in a box with some other people or things. Rather, it embodiesthe inherent paradoxical movement of Möbial and Kleinian surfaces.

      for - definition - spatiosubobjectivity - Steven M. Rosen - a dynamic fusion of subject, object and space as a unified psychophysical reality - adjacency - Llisa's experience - spatiosubobjeectivity - Tibetan true nature of mind teaching - Deep Humanity BEing journey - spatiosubobjectivity BEing journey to induce a gestalt switch - to - wikipedia - Steven M. Rosen - https://hyp.is/twLEciIKEfCh2fulOW4D8A/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Rosen - to - homepage - Steven M. Rosen at CUNY - https://hyp.is/48yh8CJxEfCReN_MXjnJ4w/embodyingcyberspace.com/

      adjacency - between - Lisa's experience - spatiosubobjectivity - Tibetan True Nature of Mind - adjacency relationship - Lisa's experience and the word "spatiosubobjectivity" that it led to remind me of Tibetan teachings on the true nature of mind - It says essentially the same thing, that the totality of phenomena is the true nature of mind. That is, - the subject (inner) - the intervening space, and - the objects (outer) - together constitute the true nature of mind

    4. I had a profound experienceof oneness. Although I am not sure that this description is “accurate” in anyobjective sense, it conveys my experience.

      for - Lisa's profound meditative experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch - no words to describe the experience - novel experience, no words exist to describe

      comment - Lisa talks about finding it difficult to describe this experience - When we have entirely new experiences that are radically different from anything we've had before, - we have no reference system to describe it, the words don't exist, while the novel experience does. - This becomes an invitation to extend language, knowing however, that language itself is always dualistic and symbolic

    5. how do we shift fromseeing ourselves at the center of our existence to seeing ourselves as part ofcompletely interconnected existenc

      for - transition - perspectives - from - anthropocene - to - symbiocene

      comment - our constant othering shows that we do not even appreciate the anthropocene - we have to gain insight into our habit of othering other humans first, and co-emerge a unified humanity, before we attempt the greater task of not othering all the other species - OR we can tackle our general sense of separation of both other humans and individuals of other species

    6. Iwasn’t unfriendly, but I wasn’t friendly either. Eventually I realized that whenI decided that he was “mean,” I had become mean. I treated him meanly. Myjudgment of another showed me my own meanness, a shadow part of me that

      for - Deep Humanity Being journey - bringing our shadow to consciousness - Question - How could we construct shadow awareness BEing journeys?

    1. The student-led movement is resilient partly because it is leaderless by design - it is not so easy to ‘cut off the head’ of a regenerative organism that does not depend on any single person or even a small group of figureheads.

      for - example - decentralized movement - Serbia 2025 - example - decentralized movement - pros - no head to decapitate - Serbia protests 2025 - same applies to decentralized web - no central server to shut down - adjacency - decentralized movement - decentralized web - no single server to shut down - cannot decapitate

    1. What I envision is the ultimate linking of consonant websites that spontaneously play off each other in an intimate exchange that reverberates planet-wide. Here there would actually be no need for deliberate planning and coordination among the websites. The resonances could occur solely through the hyperlinks, with participants picking up on inter-website harmonies simply by using their browsers to navigate.

      for - similar to - Indyweb

    2. Surpassing the virtual communication now prevailing in cyberspace and fleshing out the actuality of the “global electronic village” requires relating to one another in terms of our holes. Only in the hollow part of me is there room to receive you as you actually are, rather than as you are projected by my ego.

      for - similiar to - cannot pour into a full cup

    3. In the body, the awareness of absence, of the hole in one’s individual being, can metamorphose into a cognizance of the paradoxical (w)holeness of a larger being, the flesh of the world. The crux of the matter is holding the paradox. As long as I proceed from the ego, I will continue my flight from paradox. So “I” must proceed from the ego’s empty core, from the hole in the “I” that can bring (w)holeness.

      for - key insight - transformation - from sense of lack - to wholeness - adjacency - sense of lack - ego's empty core

      adjacency - between - sense of lack - ego's empty core - adjacency relationship - This is a very pith statement: - In the body, the awareness of - absence, - of the hole in one’s individual being, - can metamorphose into a cognizance of - the paradoxical (w)holeness of a larger being, - the flesh of the world. -The crux of the matter is holding the paradox. - As long as I proceed from the ego, - I will continue my flight from paradox. - So “I” must proceed from the ego’s empty core, - from the hole in the “I” that can bring (w)holeness.

    4. One moment you’re flying high and everything is as clear as it can be. You’re experiencing a surge of unadulterated pleasure, a burst of sheer delight. But then, all of a sudden, the situation flips and you’re down in the dumps feeling the nagging necessity for another game, another sweet, another hit, another shot.

      for - adjacency - cyber ghosts - hungry ghosts - the hunger is temporarily satisfied, but the hunger pangs start again - cycling in samsara - consumerism - David Loy - inability for consumerism to fill our sense of lack - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8

    1. though he claimed to be nothing more than a translator – therebyconforming to medieval literature’s aversion to originality, at least outwardly –he remains one of the most strikingly original writers of the Middle Ages.

      And isn't this just what we would broadly expect of a culture moving from primary orality into literacy? The old wisdom passed down through memory would be prized over the invention of the new.

      Until the written tradition can be fully relied upon, originality wouldn't be prized the way it is in current Western culture.

      We should expect writers to say (even if lying) that their material is based on prior sources and not created by them.

      Of course perhaps the primary oral bards may have exhibited this pattern themselves and used their own creativity to embellish prior "close truths". Just how far did originality go in the bardic tradition?

      Compare this with using written statements to actively tell lies in the opening centuries of literacy.