We're all clay monsters now

Created based on E.L. Zeitgeist’s question: What would happen if people had the option to get rid of their outward facing identities (race, gender, etc) via a procedure that replaces your skin with a plasticine substance? How would it affect society?

Alex Dobrenko

If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.

Matter

I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else

sundus sundusalfe.substack.com

I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.

Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion

What if we could embody a different relationship with time ? If we took other images from our world - spirals, zig-zags, rhizomes, crystals, the folds of a midnight flower, the pulsing undulations of the jellyfish - and allowed our narratives of becoming and transformation (personal or otherwise) to follow those contours and weaves, those meta patt... See more

Radiant Body of Time

Two clay pots

A father sends his son to school. After 12years the son comes back and the father asks: "Did they teach you about that which cannot be seen, which cannot be heard and which cannot be known, yet without which nothing can be seen, heard or known?" - "No, what is that?" replies the son. So the father begins teaching:

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