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

When 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

A. 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

“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