Rocks and Stones
Stone for them was never dead. It was potential resonance. A block of limestone or granite was a conductor waiting to be tuned. The combination of gold, alabaster, and orientation to stellar rise was not aesthetic indulgence but a calibration of vibration. Every material, every angle, every chamber participated in a single harmonic field that
... See moreWhen people today say that “life is returning to silicon,” they’re being half-literal, half-poetic. Computing substrates are indeed silicon lattices engineered to perform the same informational operations that carbon once handled biologically. The loop closes: matter learning again how to copy, vary, and remember; only this time consciously
... See moreA. Graham Cairns-Smith once proposed that the first self-replicating systems were clay-crystal lattices. Layered silicates can store pattern defects; those imperfections might have functioned as primitive “genes.” Organic molecules later hijacked that replication mechanism, replacing the inorganic scaffold with carbon chemistry. In that sense, life
... See moreThere is a kind of soul and spiritual life-force even in inorganic matter such as stones and dust and water.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
“Behind the effervescent force of the plant is concealed the warmth of feeling, behind the mobility of the animal lies the force of thought. Thought and feeling are united in the gravity of the stone” - Hilma af Klint
These are ancient paths of Dreaming etched into the landscape in song and story and mapped into our minds and bodies and relationships with everything around us: knowledge stored in every waterway and every rock.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023
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A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023
2023 A+, Models, & Best Articles
Roaming rocks: Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and... See more