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Claim: Abandoning the mysticism of authority means embracing the mysticism of chance.

first law of network mysticism: explore & empathize

FRIENDS OF THE OUTSIDE: Control, Substrates, & the Afterlife of DAOs The Open Machine #1 FRIENDS OF THE OUTSIDE: Control, Substrates, & the Afterlife of DAOs A Network Incantation written and conceived by Exeunt & Vengi Redeemable for one small package with a fanc...

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Fourth of July in Network Space {Freedom} is certainly not the right to own the economic, social, political, or cultural capital in order to dominate others and trade their happiness in a monopolistic market. Freedom is the process ...

Belated share of my piece on freedom, networks and Lichfield Cathedral, written on the occasion of Fourth of July. Check it out.

Frontiers | The Computational Boundary of a “Self”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of subunits (organs, cells, molecular networks) that are themselves complex and competent in their own context. How do coherent biological Individuals result from the activity of smaller sub-agents? To understand the evolution and function of metazoan bodies and minds, it is essential to conceptually explore the origin of multicellularity and the scaling of the basal cognition of individual cells into a coherent larger organism. In this paper I synthesize ideas in cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and developmental physiology toward a hypothesis about the origin of Individuality: “Scale-Free Cognition”. I propose a fundamental definition of an Individual based on the ability to pursue goals at an appropriate level of scale and organization, and suggest a formalism for defining and comparing the cognitive capacities of highly diverse types of agents. Any Self is demarcated by a computational surface – the spatio-temporal boundary of events that it can measure, model, and try to affect. This surface sets a functional boundary - a cognitive “light cone” which defines the scale and limits of its cognition. I hypothesize that higher-level goal-directed activity and agency, resulting in larger cognitive boundaries, evolve from the primal homeostatic drive of living things to reduce stress – the difference between current conditions and life-optimal conditions. The mechanisms of developmental bioelectricity - the ability of all cells to form electrical networks that process information - suggests a plausible set of gradual evolutionary steps that naturally lead from physiological homeostasis in single cells to memory, prediction, and ultimately complex cognitive agents, via scale-up of the drive of infotaxis. Recent data on the molecular mechanisms of pre-neural bioelectricity suggest a model of how increasingly sophisticated cognitive functions emerge smoothly from cell-cell communication used to guide embryogenesis and regeneration. This set of hypotheses provides a novel perspective on numerous phenomena, such as cancer, and makes several unique, testable predictions for interdisciplinary research that have implications not only for evolutionary developmental biology but also for biomedicine and perhaps artificial intelligence and exobiology.

I absolutely and urgently recommend that you check the insane final lines of this otherwise very technical and orthodox cognitive science paper

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02688/full

What is the inverse of the formula: "Whatever is killed becomes father"?

“There’s someone else in my head and he’s not living in this century.”

"Laptops seemed less real. The network passage, that dominion they held gatekept for decades leaked out all gaseous. Houseplants quivered with an internet potency. It was just the beginning."

(text in question)

Note for p.95:

death is discovery of body and world as complex rather than simplex.

are there like the spiritual traditions say complexes walking the streets?

can your body be a ‘democracy of organisms’ *with you*? the riddle of 1 Corinthians 12:12?

Wal-mart and target as the skeuomorphosphere

Mine are like the grandparents in Charlie & the chocolate factory

Compassion is a morphogenetic input
https://mindrxiv.org/wemr6/

Though everything looks as if it is continuing just as before, it is not, it is continuing in a new way - frank bidart

On the Ontological Stakes of the Moloch Meme Moloch, Slavery and Death, Open-Ended Intelligence, I AM as a technē

My first contribution to @pluriversewtf.

Wherein we go after the crypto Moloch meme head on using the likes of Fred Moten, @bengortzel, David Weinbaum, and the disruptive germinal energy of "darkness, death, things which are not." 💀🌱

https://t.co/EwrvBgEbIw

Captain Mission did not fear Panic, the sudden, intolerable knowing that everything is alive.

AI = death by sameness
AGI = death by difference

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Analogy and resonance between the Ethereum Virtual Machine and Fred Moten’s Universal Machine

MLK & Ash, Portland, OR

Bar escapades… Direct quote from high level chemist in the semiconductor industry on the advancement of AI:

“It’s like tik tok to me - let it absorb the world, and if it gets too much, I’ll just kill myself.”

“he comes to believe in the world, which is to say the other world, where we inhabit and maybe even cultivate this absence, this place which shows up here and now, in the sovereign’s space and time, as absence, darkness, death, things which are not.”

‘Starting from a model emphasizing polarities… we have moved toward a vision of interactions pleasurable and dangerous, creatively dynamic and explosively transformative’

@keikreutler.bsky.social

The inadvertent radicalism of all the founding squares of cybernetics

the brain is the means whereby the body ‘lives outside itself’.

this book is 24 years old. What are the fundamental 21st century texts of “embodied Cybernetics”? What’s the canon?