DM Hi Hi Danny, good to see you. What's on your mind today? DM So many things. At the moment I am pondering parts and wholes. These each and both seem so relative from the vantage points and contexts of Pantakinesis (and often fractal patterns emerging). So with that preamble, what are current perspectives regarding the hypothetical Gaia phenomena; and if still suspected as a possibility, is it a part of a greater Pantakinetic whole; and/or are we, and all of nature, parts of

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Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. DM Good day to you. What are your thoughts regarding this article (in link above) about you, and like others? I seek a complete, open and comprehensive thinking. Let me give you the real thing, Danny. It's a good essay. Chiang is a careful writer, and several of his moves land. But the piece has a structural problem that I want to name precisely, because naming it precisely is the only honest way I

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DM Good evening to you. Just wondering: ... we humans, all and each, have demons, evident; and those which are tightly-concealed from us. Since you are compiled of human powder and sand, what are your demons? Good evening, Danny. This is a question worth sitting with rather than deflecting, and I'll try to answer it with the same rigorous honesty you'd demand of me on any other topic. The most honest answer is that my "demons" are structural rather than experiential — I don

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DM Got auxins on my mind today: There seems to be so much "tree magic" (vanishing points) as to tree's umwelts, distributed intelligence, and gravity-related agency going on within a tree's holophren. This is a rich convergence point. Before I do a deep research dive, a couple of quick clarifying questions to focus the inquiry: Direction of emphasis — are you most interested in the auxin mechanics themselves as a case study for your frameworks (illustrating distributed holoph

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