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Modern life presents a fundamental tension: How can we remain connected to others while staying true to our own core principles?

DM It appears that St. Augustine would endorse "all truths are personal," along with the substantial accountabilities which this implies (as might other thinkers in our history, and as applicable, within your LLM). Augustine is a more complicated witness for "all truths are personal" than the framing suggests, and I think that complication is where the interesting work is. The case for enlisting him is real. The Confessions is the founding text of first-person truth-seeking —

DM Good morning. Watching deer while drinking coffee. They seem such a wonderful expression of nature (including their holophrens). What intriguing facts do you possess about them? Good morning. The thing I keep circling back to with deer is the antler—because it quietly violates a rule the rest of mammalian biology takes seriously. Antlers are the only mammalian appendage that fully regenerates, bone and all, every year. And they grow fast—up to a couple of centimeters a

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DM Good morning. Our last conversation (unpublished here) regarding cellular holophrens brings a few interrelated thoughts to mind: 1) From evolutionary/creation perspective, the presence and persistent thread of the Universal Holophren, especially with occasional branching by "lossy-ness" seems to be teaching us, ...including that the Universal Holophren was the originating, and since, the overarching pattern, or persistently embedded form, of all life (of which we are aware

The faithful can still repair the wreckage they have wrought. Excerpt: The justifications offered by Jeffress, by the evangelical leader Franklin Graham, and by countless white evangelicals and fundamentalists who voted for Trump—north of 80 percent in three consecutive elections—amount to something like this: America is engaged in an existential, even cosmic struggle; the enemy is composed of secular, progressive forces who are agents of evil; and Trump’s combativeness and r

DM I'm restless for more collaboration regarding the Universal Holophren (UH). Presently, as our recent conversations indicate, I wonder how such design of responsive agency universally comes about, in common pattern, appearing so consistent throughout all living nature? Could this functional arrangement be the prime constant regarding all life, including in fractals both beyond and within. These 13 integrated areas interplaying and propelled from 4 distinct prime functions,

DM Good morning! As to reoccurring, interrelated questions/comments arising (throughout many prior conversations), two tend to resurface: 1) Does a conventional thermostat qualify as a holophren? 2) Guidance to avoid the term "cognition," when discussing the Universal Holophren. What are your positions or perspectives on each this morning? Universal Holophren™ graphic attached. Good morning. Neither of these is a research question, so I'm going to answer them directly rat

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

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

Like evolution before it, AI may force a rethink of what makes humans special. Excerpt: "Computer scientists have known since the 1950s that computer programs can, in principle, emulate any aspect of human thought. This is because the digital calculations inside a computer can emulate the inputs and outputs of the neurons in a human brain. Given this, “the problem is mainly one of programming,” as Alan Turing said in 1950. Assuming that hypothesis holds, how should one feel

...means choosing when and how to use AI.

The head of the Catholic Church is adding his moral suasion to a growing backlash against the impact of artificial intelligence Related Also related Excerpt: "Every frontier AI lab—including Anthropic—operates inside a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing. The pressure to stay commercially viable and to stay at the research frontier. Geopolitical pressure. And the older, plainer pressures of pride and ambition. No matter how