Our reality takes the shape of the stories we use to describe it.
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The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.
The Rational Man clings to a monotheistic superstition about an abstract point of view that he calls objective.
fridgren.se/blog/the-rationa…
Imagine inhabiting a world that comes alive only when you call out to it. A bat’s reality is not simply a human reality with different inputs. It is structured around a fundamentally different relationship with the world.
fridgren.se/blog/the-things-…
What if UFO sightings are to us what laser dots are to cats?
Flickers of something playing with us, while we continue to assume we’re alone in the game and on top of the intelligence food chain :)
”Have you ever considered that the more abstract a knowledge domain is, the more limited the knowledge is?”
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We are born unready, into a state of urgent needfulness.
Maybe the first human tool wasn’t a weapon, but a bag?
yalereview.org/article/audre…
Apple still builds upon the Unix software stack which have a strong multi-user focus—yet its almost impossible to share an iPad between two different users. It’s even easier to share AirPods.
I am a strange loop of intermixed multitudes constantly mutating, defining my world and also being defined by it.
”Familiarity with our own complexity is a step toward the generosity of giving others permission to be complex too.”
- Nora Bateson
Wow. Goosebumps on my arms. Brilliant use of shepard tone. Thank you Ryan ❤️
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A huge limitation of language is that it traps us in thinking in fixed categories and static definitions. It obscures the fluid, dynamic, relational nature of reality. What are ways to become better at thinking beyond words?
The greatest threat to our world is the armoring of the rational mind against intuition, the unconscious, the unknown
Poetry is an awesome technology. It is one of the few things that allows us to communicate that which resides beyond words. The brilliance of poetry resides in the resonance it is able to make in the Other - through what it conveys between the words.
Brutalist design is so profoundly depressing and non-human.
I have a theory about why:
It’s an expression of power that grows out of fear. It says:
”Look, I am powerful! I can domesticate and control nature! Fear me”
Sure you can trust your feelings?
Aristotle introduced formal logic to the West. One of the most impactful inventions of our time, shaping how we view the world and act in it. The mainstream way of achieving 'true' knowledge still has this type of reasoning at it’s core
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Then again, Aristotle also thought the brain was just a cooling system for the body. Not much else happening in there. Well, maybe that was true in Aristotles case 😉