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  1. Nov 2023
    1. there's a there's an embryo that's going to develop into a human individual well what you can do is you can take a little needle and and and make some scratches in that blastoderm and for about four or five hours before they heal up again 00:23:12 every island is going to basically decide that it's on its own and is going to start making an embryo when they do heal you have conjoin twins triplets whatever
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        • where do I begin and the outside world begin?
        • these experiments raise some very fundamental questions about who the individual being is. If all the cells of the blastdoderm normally form a single individual, but by a simple mechanical process as a scratch can restart the "individual" program and create more embryos (future individual human beings), then where would the boundary be between self and other (conjoined twins)?
      • question

      • adjacency between
        • multiple beings can simultaneously emerge from the same cellular soup (blastoderm) - twins, triplets, etc
        • phenomena of synchronization between twins
      • adjacency question

        • is there a relatoinship between these two facts?

        • Could this

  2. May 2021
    1. It was starting, it was starting at last!

      anticipatory

    2. He knew that sooner or later he would obey O'Brien's summons. Perhaps tomorrow, perhaps after a long delay--he was not certain. What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning. But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive. Even while he was speaking to O'Brien, when the meaning of the words had sunk in, a chilly shuddering feeling had taken possession of his body. He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him.

      premonition of the end, metafictive, accepting death