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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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DM Today, from our preceding and applicable conversations, I'm pondering these: 1) Initialization or generation of the holophrenic™ phenomena within what will become sentient consciousness, be it from seed, sperm, egg, zygote or spore. 2) Imagining possible origination(s) of the holophrenic structure from pre-history's fundamental motion(s), and the derivative formations and arrangements of matter therefrom. Related, I'm positing that life could (finally) be defined as a pres

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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DM Today I'd like to expand upon one of my more radical considerations. This is regarding my "persisting reality creation hypothesis," which I've referred to in past conversations as "Realm of the Present-Now™" (RPN™). I posit that there may be more complex, hidden, "fabricated" phenomena taking place within humans' than we acknowledge as we participate in Pantakinesis™ . For background review past conversations regarding, and/or including, RPN. Here are a few precipitative,

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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,

DM Good afternoon. What are you perspectives of "Social Physics," such as the merits, arguments pro and con, potential value/utility/importance, means, methods and current progress (including the integration of A.I.)? Note explanations by advocate and Media Lab/MIT professor, Alex Pentland, a decade ago. Good afternoon, Sciart. Alex Pentland's "Social Physics" is a fascinating framework that I suspect will resonate with some aspects of your systems-level thinking, while als

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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

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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