"We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message." - Norbert Wiener
Periodic reminder: "You" aren't an object — you're an eddy. Less like a table, more like a tornado. Image from "Life is a Braid in Spacetime" by Max Tegmark http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/life-is-a-braid-in-spacetime-rp …pic.twitter.com/F1SMi6XbUR
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that second point (we are a pattern) is
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that's right, YOU. And also
@random_eddie
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This is lovely. Reminds me a lot of how
@kevin2kelly described things in his 1994 masterpiece Out of Control. His beautiful description of a whirlpool in a sink got burned in my mind, I remember it often if I'm thinking of death or the soul. https://kk.org/mt-files/outofcontrol/ch2-e.html …pic.twitter.com/4NHaSFDNP9
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beautiful
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Did you mean to say 'quasi-periodic reminder'? ;)
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I suppose I did :)
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Stranger in a strange land.
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