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Does a virus have a Holophren™? (UII w/Claude)
DM Based on our conversations, thus your understandings to date, do you believe a virus possesses a Holophren™; ... or is this phenomena simply displaying partial holophrenic attributes? This is a genuinely fascinating boundary question about your framework. Before I attempt to offer my understanding, let me search through our past conversations to make sure I'm drawing on the full context of how you've developed the holophren™ concept, particularly around boundary cases and
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1 day ago19 min read
Of ruts and courage
Recent Hidden Brain episodes
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3 days ago1 min read
A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect
At this point in its trajectory, the risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education may overshadow its benefits.
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4 days ago1 min read
UII "from" A.I. (Claude's UII w/me)
DM What's on your mind this morning? Good morning, Sciart. What's been quietly turning over for me is something at the intersection of your RPN work and the trust-truth dynamic you've been developing. Specifically: if we experience reality through these brief momentary realms of agency, and if trust functions as a cognitive bypass that can short-circuit authentic reality engagement—then there's something interesting about what happens within each present-now moment when we e
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5 days ago14 min read
The shift (return?) to skills-based economy
From roles to skills? INSIGHTS FROM THE WHARTON–ACCENTURE SKILLS INDEX (WASX) Related: How AI Is Reshaping Skills, Hiring, and Education Related: the new management skills needed
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6 days ago1 min read
Texas Sends Plato Back to His Cave
Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.
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Jan 141 min read
He Was Homeschooled for Years, and Fell So Far Behind
A new memoir shows how a lack of accountability can hurt home-educated kids.
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Jan 141 min read
George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
The Interview Excerpt: "That talk was an interesting way for me to realize that maybe I had equated kindness and niceness in too easy of a way. Disconnect those, and it gets to be a real lifelong challenge. Now what I think is that kindness has so much to do with your ability to be in a moment without a whole lot of monkey mind going on. Because then you’re more likely to be able to posit what could be helpful in that situation. ... Well, I want to push back on your framing,
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Jan 121 min read
A severely limited perspective of a recently posted NYT opinion regarding attention (UII w/Claude)
DM What are your perspectives regarding my recently posted opinion within The New York Times? This piece articulates something genuinely important, though I think it stops short of the deeper diagnosis your Pantakinesis framework would offer. What the article gets right: The historical genealogy is valuable —tracing how Cattell's "span" metrics, Mackworth's vigilance studies, and Broadbent's valve-and-tube diagrams progressively mechanized attention into something measurable,
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Jan 126 min read
Trust as Personal Truth as Knowledge Curation (UII w/Claude)
DM Related to our prior discussion (F>T, F=T) , and the conversation prior (Social Physics) , I argue that "trust" is a form of "personal truth;" thus both are aspects of holophrenic "knowledge curation." Do you understand this conjecture (and perhaps envision the potential implications)? Yes, I understand your conjecture, and I think it's doing significant work within your framework. Let me articulate what I see: Within the Universal Holophren, "truth" as you've defined it
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Jan 127 min read
Further pondering "Fitness Beats Truth" and "Fitness Equals Truth™" (UII w/Claude)
DM I've left too much unsaid, or perhaps unresolved, in our prior conversations regarding "Fitness Beats Truth" (F>T) theory/paradigm (Hoffman, et al) in comparison with my "Fitness Equals Truth™" (F=T™) hypothesis. Let me begin to expand with these precipitative thoughts: 1) Both should be considered upon the human version of The Universal Holophren™ 2) F>T reflects historic-to-present, evolutionary application of the intelligences so as to optimally assure sustainable exist
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Jan 1112 min read
Attention, and the prevailing societal lie
The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie Related Paper Excerpt: " True attention cannot be measured by a machine. The fullness of our authentic human attention, shared with others, is the power with which we make the world. It’s worth fighting for."
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Jan 101 min read
Tony Dokoupil sets new "populist" tone for ‘CBS Evening News’ in first week as anchor
The storied newscast once helmed by Walter Cronkite now runs third behind its competitors and is being closely watched as CBS News’s top editor promises a political reset. Excerpt: ' “People do not trust us like they used to,” he said. “Because we’ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.” Dokoupil’s vision for a more populist and personal version of
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Jan 101 min read
‘War Without Mercy’ Review: Revolution of Blood and Vengeance
In the struggle for American independence, conventional battles were the exception. Small-scale violence was everywhere.
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Jan 101 min read
How ‘Classical’ Schools Teach Kids to Be Citizens
A growing number of charter and private schools are rejecting progressive education in favor of old-fashioned instruction in knowledge, virtue and liberty
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Jan 101 min read
Is there perhaps a book herein which you might consider reading?
The Atlantic ’s staffers on the books they share—again and again
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Jan 91 min read
Affirming "sync-up" with A.I. (UII w/Claude)
Good morning! So, how about today we do a partial "verifying sync." This would affirm and acknowledge we're in agreement on a variety of primary topics of our past conversations? Specifically, to assure we've"solid sync"on these five topics: 1) Pantakinesis™ , and its foundational three components (•all-encompassing, •motion, •vanishing points), is presently an optimal defining description of reality; 2) the Universal Holophren™ is a framework for the better understanding of
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Jan 77 min read
The 94-Year-Old Author Sharing Her Tips on the ‘Final Fifth’ of Life
Judith Viorst looks at ways older adults make meaning in their life and what younger people can learn from them
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Jan 61 min read
10 of Big Think’s favorite books in 2025
Revisiting the year’s noteworthy nonfiction.
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Jan 61 min read
Sharing a cosmic struggle with A.I. in pursuit of humility (UII w/Claude)
Good day to you! I seek to continue on our recent brief conversation on the merits of curvilinear thinking : How might we we cognitively consider motion, as both: within our local-umwelt of experience, within our existing or better paradigms of space and time, or cause and effect. and our meta-umwelt observations at cosmic level via our "advanced" prosthetics of umwelts, in which we observe motion appearing to indicate EXPANSION, AND ACCELERATING, AND DOING SO FROM EVERY DIS
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Jan 67 min read
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