I'm just not a scalpel person! Ha!

for - quote - be mindful of what you feed your mind - Yuval Noah Harari - lots of people are very mindful what they feed their body. We should be equally mindful about what we feed our mind.

for - quote - flooded with misinformation - Yuval Noah Harari - The more we flood the world with information, - unless we make the effort to construct institutions that invest in truth, - we'll be flooded by fiction, illusion, delusion and junk information.

for - quote - cultural evolution eats genetic evolution for breakfast - Zachary Wood

for - quote - one human lifetime - evolution of a million generations of bacteria - Because one human lifetime may encompass a million bacterial generations, individual species and the microbiome itself can evolve within a single host.

• SRG comment
• wow! One human lifetime might encompass a million generations of bacteria!
• meme- our gut is an evolutionary lab for bacteria!

for - quote - genes evolve to adapt to culture - Joseph Henrich - in the longer run, genes are evolving to adap to these culturally constructed worlds

for - quote - gene-culture co-evolution - Herbert Gintis We are the species that we are because … genes provide individuals with the capacities and incentives to transform culture, and culture guides the transformation of the gene pool from generation to generation

for - quote - the basic elements of the superorganism are not cells and tissues but closely cooperating animals - E.O. Wilson & Holldobler

for - quote - young people - need to get money out of politics - James Hansen

for - quote - Multilateralism - China - James Hansen - If we treat China like an enemy, then they become an enemy

for - quote - forgotten our biological roots - David Suzuki - Because we've been transformed into a city dweller it's very easy for us to forget our biological roots

for - quote - illusion of economics - David Suzuki - We live in a human created environment where - it's easy to adopt the illusion that we're different from the rest of life on Earth - we're so smart we create our own habitat - Who needs nature? and - I think this is where we get to where we think we're so clever that what dominates our lives today is economics

for - quote - phasing out is a challenge - maybe collapse is needed

for - quote - holocene - should have at least 50 during the last ice age

for - quote - more intelligent species is better species?

for - quote - EO Wilson - pace of technology - compare - quotes - EO Wilson - Ronald Wright

for - quote - change happens when

for - quote - incentive - outcome

for - quote - private profit public harm

for - quote - toxic inhumane technology

for - quote - clarity is courage - Neil Postman

for - quote - AI - default reckless path - The default path is companies racing to release - the most powerful inscrutable uncontrollable technology we've ever invented - with the maximum incentive to cut corners on safety. - Rising energy prices, depleting jobs,, creating joblessness, creating security risks, deep fakes. That is the default outcome

for - quote - AI reckless path - narrow path to AI future, rather than the default reckless one

for - quote - millions of Nobel Prize level digital immigrants

Why this quote matters: Reframes “standards” as hostility to lived experience, not grammar.

Signal phrase I might use: Baldwin insists, “It is his experience.”

Why this quote matters: States language–identity linkage for synthesis. Signal phrase I might use: Baldwin maintains that language is “the most vivid and crucial key to identity…”

Why this quote matters to my theme: Centers student voice as a positive resource to develop, not suppress.

Signal phrase I might use: The chapter emphasizes that “your voice… should be amplified and cultivated.”

Why this quote matters to my theme: Directly challenges “objective standard” myths that drive gatekeeping.

Signal phrase I might use: The authors assert, “standard written English is not an objective set of criteria.”

Why this quote matters to my theme: Sets the teaching stance that supports code meshing.

Signal phrase I might use: Young proposes, “we teach language descriptively.”

Why this quote matters to my theme: Reframes “deficits” as listener prejudice, not speaker dialect.

Signal phrase I might use: Young contends, “It’s ATTITUDES.”

Why this quote matters to my theme: Captures the resistance function of dialect literature and aligns with Bambara’s use of AAVE.

Signal phrase I might use: Heller, citing Jones, notes that dialect writing “destabilizes the privileged dialect/discourse…”

Why this quote matters to my theme: Names AAVE’s expressive and identity-affirming functions directly.

Signal phrase I might use: According to Heller, “Bambara also celebrates AAVE as a vehicle for conveying black experience…”

Why this quote matters to my theme: It directly rebuts claims that SAE is inherently discriminatory and frames it as an open tool.

Signal phrase I might use: Jenkins concludes, “In short, standard American English is not inherently racist…”

Why this quote matters to my theme: It centers communication effectiveness as the standard, supporting SAE as situationally pragmatic.

Signal phrase I might use: According to Jenkins, “The only purpose of language is to communicate…”

for - adjacency - learning - unlearning - ritual - language - BEing journey - question - Could we apply ritual to unlearn language? - quote - Your brain is incredible at pattern recognition. But this superpower has a dark side: - Once you see a pattern, it becomes incredibly hard to "unsee" it. - You become trapped in your own mental models - John Vervaeke

adjacency - learning - unlearning - ritual - language - BEing journey - Could we apply ritual to break the pattern of language? This could be an interesting BEing journey!

for - quote - Whatever we inherit from the fortunate, we have taken from the defeated - T.S. Eliot - question - What does it mean?

for - quote - Lok's ear spoke to Lok. "?" - ah, now I get it! I had to read the context before I could understand what the significance of "?" is!

• quote - That question mark, standing for a question that the mind asks without words and cannot answer, is a stroke of genius.
  • it's the FEELING of mystery!

for quote - human BEing vs human DOing - They are not makers. They are.- The Inheritors

for - quote - We carry in our worlds that flourish Our worlds that have failed - Christopher Okigbo - Is modernity flourishing, on the back of a brutalized colonized world of the past? - Will post modernity flourish, on the back of a modernity that destroyed the biosphere?

for - quote - profound crisis provokes deep examination - A profound crisis provokes a deep examination. - The urge to reach that far back in history - is itself a sign of how deep the crisis was that provoked it. - Ben Okri

for - quote - deep roots of human nature

for - quote - mortality salience - Barack Obama - unpack - quote - mortality salience

for - quote - language - inherent circularity this harmonious whole is also incomprehensible, -since any description made by an observer - is part of that which is being described.

for - quote - symbolic language - when Homo sapiens develop symbolic language, - they create something unprecedented: - a cognitive technology that augments and fundamentally alters how consciousness itself operates

Quoted definition: García explains that translanguaging is “an important educational practice…to acquire other ways of languaging” (qtd. in Bisai and Singh 4). Why it matters: Authoritative definition I’ll use for my “Key quote”.

for - quote - stop trying to boil the ocean - COVID where impacts concentrate

This quote succinctly encapsulates how language affects a person(s). Language = identity.

.> for - quote - worker-owned cooperatives - Michael Brownrigg

for - quote - religious supremacy - religious is, in some ways, just because of the numbers a bigger problem than white supremacy - Jenny Gage

for - quote - Paris Accord - 2025 - policy lagged but business stayed on track - Johan Rockstrom

for - quote - patterns are goal states intelligent systems are pursuing - Michael Levin

for - quote - platonic patterns are now actionable - Michael Levin - I've been thinking about this stuff for decades, and I had not broached the topic of platonic patterns until this year. - And that's because I think it is now actionable. - question - progress trap - moral questions and alarm bells? playing God? - Michael Levin

for - quote - Michael Levin - what is a good story? - the question is: Why didn't that biochemical story get you to this (new) discovery? - adjacency - good models - predictive power - good story - a good model is a good language - new words frame the world in new ways, - it allows us to divide reality in different ways - and can lead us to look in places we otherwise might now - and that can lead to new observations

This quote infers that the biggest problem with Chat GPT is the deception regarding the accuracy of the data it presents

Good quote that opposes the myth of the web

are like - toothbrushes.

Everyone has one

• but no one
• wants to use another one's.

Yeah, it's such a glorious metaphor and

that that's true when I read it and it's more true now.

for - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - I don't see that education is going on in schools. - I don't see that knowledge is being produced in universities. - I don't see a lot of healing happening in hospitals. And - I don't see a lot of food being sold in supermarkets

comment - we need to flip civilization - we do not live in a wellbeing civilization - one future alternative is commons-based, with tools such as the Indyweb, that can allow life-long learners to build up their own private store of information - individual, yet connected through interpersonal trust networks for social learning

for - quote - scientific publishing is a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - alignment - Alex Gomez-Marin - Indyweb networked self-publishing

for - quote - scientific publishing is misdirection and huge business for publishing companies - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - alignment - Alex Gomez-Marin - Indyweb - networked self-publishing

for - quote - the worst kind of pseudoscience is this kind of dogmatic scientism

for - progress trap - transhumanism -quote - transhumanism - mandating change on the human species

for - quote - AI ethics - AI pets - very soon people will think that if you turn off their algorithm, you're killing their pet,

for - adjacency- transhumanism - consciousness - quote - dark force of transhumanism - The transhumanist agenda to me is a very dark force. - It's a force that wants to extinguish humankind while telling us it's going to be great. - Consciousness is going to be key here

for - quote - straw man panpsychism - I see problems with panpsychism too - but when you make consciousness a fundamental property - this idea of oh so these glasses are conscious. - Come on we can be more sophisticated right? - So you don't need to straw man panpsychism in that way.

for - quote - We shouldn't have called it the hard problem of consciousness - By calling it a hard problem, - Yeah. Hard problems you can still solve and we shouldn't have called it a hard problem. - We should have said okay materialism just died.

Comment : insightful observation!

for - quote - materialism crime scene - Alex Gomez- Marin - the hard problem was I would say a covering up of the crime scene where materialism had died

for - quote - building a new headset - Donald Hoffman - consciousness is fundamental but I'm using it in some sense to build a new headset

for - quote - religious avatars - Donald Hoffman - I think that - Buddha - Jesus - Muhammad and - a bunch of people - were very very helpful avatars to help other avatars wake up to their their true nature

for - quote / key insight - die before we die - Donald Hoffman - We will each die. That's incontrovertible. - So any attachments I have to this world will cease. - There's no doubt. - The question is can I let go of the attachments now - or will they only go for my cold dead hand?

• adjacency - example - cliche - die before we die - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - letting go - of knowledge - of theories - Donald Hoffman - I've often felt as he does - it's a conundrum of letting go of that (knowledge) we've invested so heavily into - quote / key insight - letting go of theories of science and self - Donald Hoffman - Science is great, but don't believe any theory. <br /> - Theories are just tools. They're not the truth. - No scientific theory, my theories included, are the truth. - And so also is my theory about who I am not the truth. - So to really let go of any theory, if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear

for - key insight / quote - Do I identify with my fear or step back and be the observer that watches the fear response? - Donald Hoffman? - adjacency - calmness - in the face of death - fear of death - Donald Hoffman

for - quote / key insight - consciousness has created the brain as an icon to describe how it's creating this headset - Donald Hoffman

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

for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.

• adjacency - poverty mentality - ego - problems of the world - samsara - nirvana - hologram model - Alan Watts - God playing hide and seek - Donald Hoffman
• When we don't believe we can be this, we limit ourselves
  • That is, we suffer from self-inflicted poverty mentality
• When he says we are the one same reality,
  • he is echoing the common spiritual teaching of the holographic metaphor where
    • the one nameless is distilling itself in so many separate identities to know itself,
  • Similiar to many spiritual teacher's teachings
    • Alan Watts referred to it as God playing Hide and Seek with itself

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

for - quote - Almost all of us think of ourselves as an object in spacetime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die - Donald Hoffman When I say you transcend any scientific

• Almost all of us think of ourselves as
  • an object in spacetime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die.
• When I say you transcend any scientific theory,
  • that means the theory that I am just a 160lb object in spacetime is just a theory and it's not the truth.
• That's not the truth about who I am.
• That's just a theory that I have because spacetime itself is just a theory.
• Nothing inside spacetime is anything but my headset interpretation of a reality that infinitely transcends anything I can experience.

for - quote - you are God - Donald Hoffman - you are good - predictive text error - you are not good, you are God

for - quote - we know 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman

for - quote - not truth, just a headset - Donald Hoffman

for - quote/key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is

quote / key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is - Donald Hoffman - From an evolutionary point of view, perception is expensive. - It takes a lot of calories. - You have to eat a lot of food - to run your brain and - to power your eyes and your ears. - - And so you need to do shortcuts. - You need to make your sensory systems not chew up so much of your energy. - The more expensive your perceptual systems are, - the more you've got to eat to to power those. - So that means you have to go out there and forage and put yourself at harm. - So there's a trade-off. - We try to do things cheaply in evolution. And you don't need to actually go for the truth because that's very very expensive

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

for - quote - Evolution shapes us not for truth, but to successfully reproduce - Donald Hoffman

achieve balance, then consider action

worry and overwork make you sick

the importance of an environment that you can sweat in

for - quote - mortal - moral

for - quote main goal of life - don't die

for - post - LinkedIn - Glenn - post - LinkedIn- Carbon Credits - ecological prostitution - metaphor - carbon credits - obese people - quote - carbon credits like obese people overconsuming without feeling guilty - Offsetting with carbon credits is morally equivalent to - obese people hiring someone else to go on a diet for them or even - demanding that people in countries suffering from food-insecurity reduce their food intake - so that obese people can continue to overconsume without feeling guilty. - It resembles the colonial hoax of “paying” the poor to clean up the mess they cause.- Glenn Sankatsing

for - quote - mutualization - Michel Bauwens

for - quote - religion was trans-local - Michel Bauwens - new definition - trans-religion - a universal religion that transcends existing religions - one of the dominant theories of - anthropology, - human origins and - human evolution - is that our species had is origins in Africa and spread out to the rest of the world - The interesting thing is that if this iis indeed true, then we are all distant relatives in the family of humanity - and the various regional cultures that developed in isolation until relatively recently when modern transportation technology brought us into contact, are all related - third could be a unifying narrative that could motivate a universal human spirituality that re-integrates a fragmented modern humanity

"We don't have digital sovereignty, we have an extreme dependence on a handful of male billionaires with sketchy values."

for - quote - pardoning Ghishlaine Maxwell - There will be an insurrection if that happens - Gretchen Carlson

for - quote - future of humanity - something remarkable has to happen - Eric Weinstein

for - quote - This is the start of the undoing of the post world war II order - Eric Weinstein

This is the second half the of the thesis, and just as quote worthy.

This is the first half of the thesis. I only selected it in two separate annotations because the annotation software wanted to select more than just that. Additionally, this is likely to be a quote due to its importance.

,> for - quote - commons must eventually come to regulate society - Michel Bauwens

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

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

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

for - quote - consciousness vs cellular level intelligence - Michael Levin - key insight - high level governance (consciousness) vs low level intelligence adjacency hierarchical control - high level consciousness - low level micro intelligence quote - consciousness vs cellular level intelligence - Michael Levin - all intelligence is collective intelligence in the sense that - every agent is made of parts, all of us. - And what you want is for the (high level) agent to have a causal power that is not the same as simply tracking the microstates, the particles.

key insight - high level governance (consciousness) vs low level intelligence - This is a very important observation - It says that a multi-cellular being such as a human being can have consciousness that has agency for the entire organism and governs at that high level, and it must have this beyond just the cognition and intelligence at the lower cellular and subcellular level

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?

for - quote - right in what is affirmed, wrong in what is denied - John Stuart Mill - adjacency - worldviews - metaphor - blind men and the elephant

for - quote - role reversal - left and right - Ross Douthat - quote - role reversal - establishment and antiestablishment - Ross Douthat

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

for - quote - worldviews create worlds - Richard Tarnas

observation - worldviews are invisible hyperobjects, w - we employ logical induction to infer them from a pattern we observe - from many visible behaviors

for - quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - adjacency - Jung on diversity and unity - Deep Humanity tree metaphor

quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of effecting a union with the world - not with the world of multiplicity as we see it but - with a potential world, - the eternal Ground of all empirical being, <br /> - just as the self is the ground and origin of the individual personality - past, - present, and - future

comment - Deep Humanity strives for the same union of unity and diversity via a tree metaphor, a journey - from the diversity of multiplicity of branches of the tree - back to the common trunk of the tree

for - quote - Indyweb - adjacency - Marshal McLuhan

for - quote - cosmolocal - Lisa E. Maroski - aligned terminology - everywhere everywhen - example - individual / collective gestalt - expanded self -overcoming instinctive and learned othering quote - cosmolocal - Lisa E. Maroski - The key is to hold two perspectives simultaneously, - to look at the whole painting while seeing each brush stroke, - to consider the whole body when just the foot hurts, - to be here now and to be everywhere everywhen.” - This requires the ability to have both a local and a global perspective simultaneously.

comment - This requires a major gestalt switch - It is a radical deorientation to absorb the other into our expanded self - If we have othered our entire life, it is radical to absorb that which we have othered as our own self nature - We even have to overcome instinctive evolutionary adaptations of othering that enable individuals to survive

for - quote - adjacency - Carl Jung - consciousness - language - dualism - loss of holism

for - quote - othering

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

for - quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - critique - worldview - Bayo - new trailmark - analysis

quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - What if, instead, worldviews are - not views from worlds - but the ways worlds come into view? - What if your sense of self, - your seeing, - your feeling, - your very intelligibility as a “someone” - are not possessions within a worldview, - but part of an accommodation process issued from it, - co-conditioned, - emergent, and - entangled?

analysis - Bayo juxtapositions - the normative subject/object dualistic view of a Self having an experience with objects with - a nondualistic view in which self and other, subject and object are two sides of the same seamless coin - The aggregate experience of "many diverse appearances" is imputed to be a "self" that is having these many diverse experiences of appearances - rather than apprehending the totality as an unbroken continuum<br /> - Are we not imaginative enough to break our deep conditioning of Self and other / subject and object and experience the totality of phenomena, instead imputing a self? - The individual "self" is indeed a compelling story because the biological individual inherently - has a distinct, and identifiable though dynamic boundary with its environment - has been bestowed with the evolutionary trait of instinct for survival - and therefore prioritizes securing resources required for its biological continuation - To see beyond this pyscho/physical appearance requires a high level of integration

for - quote - natural language acquisition - wrong guess - right answer - adjacency - natural language acquisition - open mind

for - quote - language is fundamentally an experience

quote - language is fundamentally an experience - David Long - if you were to distill down to its most basic component, what is language? - It's not a phoneme - It's not a word or phrase - it's not even a meaning of some sound - In its basic component, it's a happening it's an aspect or a part of an experience - This is the key to everything we're doing in alg (Automatic Language Growth)

for - key insight / quote - innate language learning is in conflict with intentional learning - David Long - Common Human Denominator - learning language

for - quote - language education - there is something that all humans do naturally even without education, and that is learn language - David Long

for - quote - not study at all - David Long - natural language immersion

for - quote - no test, no homework, come and be entertained - David Long

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

for - quote / key insight - the shallow internet can never truly fulfill us

quote / key insight - the shallow internet can never truly fulfill us - The nourishing contact with others that we so desperately crave - can never be realized by selves that relate to others solely in the narcissistic terms of how those others can satisfy what our egos project upon them as potential sources of affirmation. - Relating to each other out of the fullness of our egos, - we look to one another for nurturing support but cannot receive each other. - There are no hollow places in ourselves - that make room for the other’s presence, - that welcome the other in. - All that confronts the other - is an ego that allows space for nothing but its own self-obsessed cravings.

for - proprioception - quote - proprioception - It is through embodied proprioception - that we can make the transition to the more fulfilling interactions of a cybernetic reality that is not merely virtual but actual. - question - proprioception - need more clarity

for - quote - emphemerality of cyberspace can be downright frightening - Steven M. Rosen - Indyweb leverages IPFS CID (Content Identification) addressing to combat emphermerality through the affordance of provenance

for - quote - AGI - Weapon of Mass Destruction

quote - As we get closer to superintelligence, - it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of - weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, - if not as a WMD in and of itself. - Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.

for - quote - AI - AI is accelerating AI research itself

for - Lao Tze - quote - the value of emptiness

for - quote - US reserve currency - used for 10% of global trade - and 90% of foreign exchange - stats - US reserve currency - used for 10% of global trade - and 90% of foreign exchange

for - quote - liberal woman dated conservative men - He clearly had no idea he was out with someone he once threatened to kill.

for - quote - manosphere - most insecure men I've ever sat down with - Vera Papisova - Cosmopolitan magazine - news - liberal dating conservative men for a year - youtube - CNN - This woman dated only far-right men for a year. "They were so insecure" - to - Cosmopolitan magazine - article - Vera Papisova - I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned - https://hyp.is/HNRDRBkdEfCBit8g4X4cAg/www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a63679179/political-beliefs-dating-app-experiment/

for - quote - Silence means consent - Thomas Moore - context - fossil fuels

for - futuring - Maarten Hajer - youtube - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - to - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/pCJ_iA42EfC_9C-RJoo6wQ/journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431020988826

comment - meme - Gien - past - present - future - quote - Gien - past - present - future - When the future becomes the present, - memories will remind us of imaginations in presents past

for - quote - science defines the future in environmental politics - Maarten Hajer

for - meme - futuring - connect - present facts - to - future fictions - quote - The point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative - Maarten Hajer

for - quote - the future is a strange topic - we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the present - Maarten Hajer

for - quote - air is a resource so vast has no value in the economy - David Suzuki

for - quote - intertwingledness of living beings and the earth - David Suzuki

quote - intertwingledness of living beings and the earth - David Suzuki - if you're going to talk about a shift in our paradigm, it is to recognize what indigenous people have always known, - that we are created out of the elements of Mother Earth. - and those should be our greatest responsibility, to protect them for ourselves and the rest of life on Earth.

for - quote - we are animals - protect - air - water - food - David Suzuki

for - quote - story of non-separation - intertwingledness - nonduality - Haida Gwaii - David Suzuki

quote - story of non-separation - intertwingledness - nonduality - Haida Gwaii - David Suzuki - What Guujaaw was saying was: - We Haida don't end at our skin or our fingertips. - To be Haida means to be connected to - the land, - the air, - the water, - the trees, - the fish, - the birds, - all of that is what makes us Haida. - The land embodies our history, our culture. - The very reason why Haida are on this earth is told to them by their connection with the land. - Destroy those elements, and you destroy what it is to be Haida.

for - quote - progress trap - David Suzuki - quote - Indra's net of jewels - David Suzuki

quote - progress trap - David Suzuki - What she (Rachel Carson) said is, - Yeah, you scientists are clever. You can make powerful compounds like DDT, but you don't know enough to anticipate all of the consequences. - Because the lab is not a replica of the real world. The lab is an artifact, something that has very little to do with the real world out there. - In the real world, everything is connected to everything else, and we don't know enough to anticipate the effects of what we do with our powerful technologies.

for - quote - retirement - David Suzuki - idling resource - elders

for - quote - the future - performance - real only to the extent that it is performed - Butler, 1988, p. 527

for - quote - the future - the future is real in so far as social actors produce representations of the future which have an effect on others’ actions in the present - Tutton, 2017, p. 483

for - meme - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago - Comparison - meme - Ronald Wright - 50,000 years - Richard Heinberg 10,000 years - quote - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago -Richard Heinberg

Comparison - meme - Ronald Wright - Richard Heinberg - Richard uses the 10,000 year figure while Ronald Wright uses 50,000 years. - Who is more accurate? Check with anthropologist.

Quote - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago -Richard Heinberg

• Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago;
  • but our current
    • habits,
    • expectations, and
    • beliefs
  • are almost entirely tied to
    • machines,
    • infrastructure,
    • energy sources, and
    • artificial materials
  • that have only recently come into existence.
• Compared to our hunter-gatherer forebears,
  • we might as well be from another planet.

New idea - Deep Humanity communication - comparison modern be ancient - I like Heinberg's articulation. It's good to use in my own communication. - Perform a detailed comparison of - world view - mental models - behaviour and habits - between - ancestors from 10,000 / 50,000 years ago - modern humans

for - book - Deficit - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - quote - If we cannot properly value the things that matter, how can we build a better future? - Emma Holten - from - post - LinkedIn - Emma Holten - Deficit - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - https://hyp.is/7KpQOgP3EfCRe5dZ352aJQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/emma-holten_i-feel-a-little-bit-ashamed-almost-because-activity-7307688971705159682-zeZ0/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - quote - why we shouldn't trust only markets - Kim Stanley Robinson

for - quote - structural inequality - example - structural inequality

for - quote - Donald Trump psychopathology - Mary Trump

for - quote - Trump is the backlash to globalization

quote - globalization - Trump is the result - Robert Kaplan - Globalization, - rather than unite the world - has split societies asunder: - creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and - an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. - It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. - What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.

for - quote - radical populism ends badly

for - 100 year history of Trumpism - quote - 2025 is culmination of 100 years

> for - addiction - failure of rehabilitation is proof of the wrong model - the disease model - quote - the disease model of addiction is not only wrong, but harmful - Marc Lewis

> for - addiction - quote - Recovery - most people find a way out of addiction - Marc Lewis

> for - quote - addiction - delay discounting - you never hear people say Let's get high next week. You're not going to hear "let's get high next Tuesday. No, let's get high now, tonight, today." - Marc Lewis

for - quote - Dark Enlightenment - Silicon Valley Neo-Reactionary - Nafeez Ahmed - 2025, Feb

quote - Dark Enlightement - Silicon Valley Neo-Reactionary - Nafeez Ahmed - Musk’s assault is aligned with a new vision inspiring the billionaire technology oligarchy backing Trump: the Dark Enlightenment ideology, inspired by - transhumanist eugenics and - scientific racism, - which envisages national democracies being - smashed and - refashioned into a patchwork of authoritarian structures subservient to transnational techno-capital.

How is this happening?

for - quote - To destabilize the current society and accelerate the fall of liberalism, some Silicon Valley protagonists like Peter Thiel finance extreme rightwing media and actors - SOURCE - article - Guido Palazzo

for - quote - Life is a war and only the strongest warriors survive. Compassion with the weak is a luxury, which neither Fascists nor Libertarians can afford. - article - Guido Palazzo

comment - This is a self-fulfilling prophecy that models one aspect of life - the fact that living beings must compete for resources with other living beings to survive - It ignores the other side, the cooperative and altruistic side - It ignores the intertwingledness of self and other - the individual / collective gestalts - It ignores the fundamental altruism of the mother in assuring their own survival in the world - the mOTHER, the Most significant OTHER

for - Project 2025 - Trump - Hitler - Atlantic article - quote - Joseph Goebbels - quote - The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction" - Not actually from Joseph Goebbels. He said something similiar though: - We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.

to - misquote - Joseph Goebbels - weakness of democracy - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiquote.org%2Fwiki%2FJoseph_Goebbels&group=world

for - quote - misquote - Joseph Goebbels - weakness of democracy

for - quote - Joseph Goebbels - weakness of democracy - We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. - If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... - We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. - We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.

for - quote - occupy movement - occupy wallstreet - no strategy - Robert Reich

for - quote - Robert Reich - tea party - occupy

good quote as mission

for - quote - youtube - interview - Geoffrey Hinton - AI - spiritual crisis - AI - Geoffrey Hinton - self - spiritual crisis

quote - AI - spiritual crisis - We only have the dimmest understanding of, at present the nature of people and what it means to have a self - We don't understand those things very well and they're becoming crucial to understand because we're now creating beings - (interviewer: so this is becoming a philosophical, perhaps even spiritual crisis as a practical one) - Absolutely, yes

for - quote - on haptic realism - there are multiple ways that you can strip away complexity that give you different perspectives on that one same target system - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar

for - quote - there is no fundamental objectivity because the scientist is always bringing his or her own interests, perspectives, toolmaking and strategies and these in essence mold their questions that they can answer - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar