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DM Good morning! Based on our many prior related conversations, today I'd like to share a differing, perhaps more expansive, perspective of the Universal Holophren™. Attached you'll see: 1) A "hierarchical arrangement" graphic (as opposed to the prior "relational" or integrated view we've discussed extensively); thus consider: 2) How Holoprhrens engage WITHIN Pantakinesis™ , ... but only to the limits of respective "vanishing points; " 3)The various "contexts" of vanishing po

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DM Regarding our many past conversations regarding Holphrenic™ implications of Hoffman's "Fitness Beats Truth" (F>T) and my "Fitness Equals Truth™" (F=T™) conjectures, and merits thereof; as I now advance my incubation on these topics, I am coming to realization the differences of these have far more substance, implications and applications. This is especially so when you add a third construct of "Truth Beats Fitness™," (T>F™) ... which also is prevalent in personal and colle

DM Good morning. Any thoughts as to how to decide when you are done? When you can or should do no more? The effort is over, whether good, bad, succeed, fail or all of these? Good morning, Sciart. That question has a few distinct layers worth separating before collapsing them — because "done" can mean very different things depending on which frame you're operating in. There's exhaustion-done  — where the system (you, the project, the relationship) has simply run out of fuel or

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