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Thomas
Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus effe... See more
Abigail Desmond • Chaos and cause
My house plants became healthier and died less often once I stopped tracking their watering, stopped trying to use moisture meters or other tools, and learned to pick up on their vibes instead.
Many such cases.
Nat Eliasonx.comAI’s productivity paradox: how it might unfold more slowly than we think
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ut how
, specifically, can you understand the subjective workings of another person’s mind? Well, you don’t want to peer
at
them; you want to engage
with
them. Looking at a person is different from looking at a thing because a person is looking back at you. I’m getting to know you at the same time you’re getting to know me. To truly see someone els... See more
ut how
, specifically, can you understand the subjective workings of another person’s mind? Well, you don’t want to peer
at
them; you want to engage
with
them. Looking at a person is different from looking at a thing because a person is looking back at you. I’m getting to know you at the same time you’re getting to know me. To truly see someone els... See more
archive.ph
The world we live in today is not just the one created by the likes of Tiberius of Rome, or even Emperor Wu of Han. Until surprisingly recent times, spaces of human freedom existed across large parts of our planet. Millions lived in them. We don’t know their names, as they didn’t carve them in stone, but we know that many lived lives in which one c... See more
David Wengrow • An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
Culture is to humans a bit like water is to fish; it is everywhere and yet imperceptible because it is not so much what we perceive but what we perceive through . Culture is what brings the world into focus, and it can be thought of as the lens through which objects are seen, not the object as such. In this sense, looking for culture is like lookin... See more
Looking for your glasses while wearing them
The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.