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Have yall come across "Assembly Theory"?
My first reading is that it's kinda a like a Christopher Alexander process take on what comprises life; eg: "The specific molecules in your body aren’t that old, but the lineage of these objects being reconstructed goes back that far.... - annabeth...
I think it’s a few things: Green’s obsessive inclusivity makes it allergic to anything that creates any sense of separation and or better/worse between humans (except the humans who are better/worse-ing people) Orange’s use of grades in educational systems is often wielded by... I got this feeling reading the AI 2040 scenario as well, although that may be the bias of the authors. have so many questions about these ideas, eg: whether or not an individual can opt out (eg with our bodies, our hair cells can't opt out if we decide to walk to another room,... - Eric Stevens...
This is a sharp way to name something a lot of people feel but can’t quite articulate. What really lands for me is the idea of the threshold; the moment a tool stops serving people and starts requiring people to serve it. That’s the quiet flip most public debates never touch.... You also said that nothing exists in a vacuum, meaning that everything only exists as a relationship, ...no? Which'd mean that consciousness isn't any different from anything else; that it's all just relationships.... Wow that's such an important discovery! I'm glad you figured it out. This reminds me of one of the things of love about Integral's "Four quadrants" model (for those who don't know, basic idea is that stuff is always a combo of psychological, social, physical, and systemic)—it's...