an alien wants to know what our poems, paintings, programs and people actually are. What Is We.
The arc of human history is long but most of it was before we began our short descent into delayed awareness. And here it is. The only hope. To be here now. To recognize now, not in the delayed future that isn't yours nor mine, we were wrong. We will always be wrong.
the most fundamental law of everything:
computation is conserved.
Two friends have a dialogue on the matter.
Remarks on the contingency of new forms and the phenemenon of replication.
validation is relative... unless it's not. WHO ARE YOU?
the success of a theory (narrative, proof, story, artwork) is its believability - its connective properties.