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DM We've not yet specifically collaborated on how systems thinking might offer significant benefits to research, understanding, diagnostics and applications of The Universal Holophren within the wide spectrum of known and unknown Holophren Embodiment Design (HED) whether living and non-living. Your thoughts? . I’ll research this before offering views. The plan is to map systems-thinking traditions onto the Universal Holophren as a substrate-neutral architecture across HED,

DM Reflecting on our prior conversations regarding gravity, you stated gravity has evidental "speed." How confident are you of that answer? I’ll research the current evidence on the speed of gravity so I can give you a calibrated confidence level rather than a reflexive one. Speed of gravity evidence Research complete. 285 sources 5m 55s I’m about 99% confident that gravitational waves, meaning changes in gravity, travel at the speed of light. My earlier answer went too far

Good afternoon! I posit that contempt for one's own ignorance has a name: hubris. Pantakinesis illuminates this; in part because of it's vanishing points (as well as its other two pillars; but, that requires a bit more facilitated learning for many humans). Thus, for one to sustainably thrive within reality, with portions thereof unknown, requires "Enjoying My Ignorance." This potent attribute also has a name: humility. Good afternoon. I concur, with one refinement, and a

Best to read Part 1 first DM Continuing to ponder this rambling concoction toward a destination. Please bear with me. Related to Pantakinetic origins, holophrens and IF#1, perhaps the paradigm of "cause and effect" should be disentangled from the paradigm of unidirectional paradigm of "time" (should this Gordian knot be inaccurate, a human-fabricated conclusion, constructed at a vanishing point)? Perhaps. And it’s further along than “perhaps” suggests: physics and philoso

Warning: this is an arduous trail; entailing long, steep and mind-challenging trekking, ...often traversing very unstable grounds; ... thus suitable only for those humble and holophrenically well-prepared. Carrying any unnecessary burdens of heavy hubris is NOT advised. Furthermore, this trek was blazed across many days, with many intervals of incubation and contemplation; hence it may best be "reflectively traveled" by others in a like manner. Fortunately, immediate resc

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Unstructured play is how we evolved to learn, solve problems, and navigate the world. So why do we treat it as optional? This hour, the science of unstructure play — and the consequences of what happens when we don’t get enough of it.

DM What do you know about what are commonly called "fire ants?" I'm fighting battles, and I need whatever you can muster to help me win this war, or be more effective in my battles spanning East Tennessee acreage. They appear to have superb "Holophren Embodiment Design" (H.E.D.). I’ll research this now, covering the fire ant species in East Tennessee (likely including hybrid imported fire ants), control strategies scaled for 47 acres, and how the colony works as a distribute

Should you have interest: a related brief Claude collaboration: DM Good day to you. As we have extensively discussed, the Universal Holophren is "substrate independent," while prevailing in wide variety of types of living and non-living entities, is so in discrete, compound, and fractal arrangement. A holophren can manifest in a distributed design (such as a in an oak tree, bee hive, business organization or immune system); or may manifest centralized manner (such as in our

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Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-winning screenplay for "The Social Network" helped define Mark Zuckerberg in the public imagination. Sixteen years later, Sorkin turns from Facebook's origins to its consequences. He wrote and directed "The Social Reckoning," inspired by whistleblower Frances Haugen's leak of thousands of internal documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz. Correspondent Jo Ling Kent talks with Sorkin and Haugen about Facebook's power – and what it means for a

Studies have shown that people who hold grudges have greater levels of cardiovascular trouble, and higher levels of depression and anxiety. But according to one survey, four out of five adults harbor some lingering resentment towards others, sometimes over the smallest of reasons. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with experts about why some people can maintain grudges for years; how holding grudges can be counterproductive; and what it takes to have forgiveness overcome ling

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