In Formation
Got no problems with that. But noise is information too. Everything is information. We are the signal, my man, and it’s a beautiful morning.
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the bend in the end
The age of life was short. The age of sentience much shorter. The age of understanding lasted only a moment.
Drift
The maps are mysterious and beautiful. And I believe this emerging portrait of the Digital Deep is a guide to our subconscious.
Quantum Jitters
Her vision had begun to waver. As Sampson started to probe the path ahead of them, she began to see two of him. Two Sampsons.
The Fungilarity
Fungi were among the first organisms to return to the atomic blast site of Hiroshima. From mushroom clouds to mushrooms.
So Particular
Just as we articulate ideas, we particulate realities. By being picky about his asparagus, Tommy has spun a new universe into existence.
the old problem
Didn’t matter where you started, what you did, what signals from other worlds you discovered, you were headed where everyone else was.
On My Mind
My cat doesn’t think that way. Its consciousness is primal. Regal. Imperial. It seeks a universe to dominate.
The Front Porch
The gathered stood shoulder to shoulder, though they would never touch, never occupy the same space. They were related but not relativistic.
Cut Time
“Hustle, hustle, hustle,” Selse hissed. “In this universe, you gotta go fast to go slow.”
Good Vibes
...all matter is conscious: from a frying pan to an amoeba to a rock to a duck-billed platypus to that joint you’re smoking...
What the Moment Means
What an individual moment means in the scope of a lifetime is like trying to write the history of an entire century by focusing on one day.
Field Trip
Atul met her eyes and held them. “Mistake not the waves for the ocean, Ms. Fuentes. Feel your way past organisms, you must. Past particles."
how to best carve light
Gaze, gape, gawk. Then squint, peep and peek.
unbeheld
What I believed of minds and machines was a parody of thought.
cutting words
With sentience, it always comes down to language. To describe is to see. To posit is to become. Every world turns on a word.
Coming to Terms
He’d have to set the terms. You couldn’t explain a thing in this or any other universe without defining the terms.
zero summa cum laude
The tower was a closed system. Knowledge fixed. Results imperative.
skzchnzski
And the Code became flesh and dwelt among us. Became us.
Being Dead
I was trying not to make a pest of myself, but I’m not entirely sure how being dead works.
The Before
“We might be able to prevent it in one universe, but it would happen to us in another. 9/11 was a sheering event. It spawned a new us."
Revenant
In essence, they’d give up the ghost. They’d be going haunting, not hunting.
Time for a Change
“I know travel and change to be one and the same. One cannot travel and not be altered."
Constant
It is a noisy universe. Most of us have never learned, or we have forgotten how to listen. We do not hear the knock. The call. The flow.
The Veil
“Help me out here. I have no idea why you just made me watch a YouTube video called Zombie in a Penguin Suit. I’m at a loss.”
Bio Mass
Soaring arches resounded with song, a lifting and longing for connection. One filament. Two. Tendrils, ganglions. Physical connectivity.
Long Legs of Summer
Connections made and lost with no gain. Why try to hold life in one’s palm, in one’s pocket? To capture a moment was to lose it.
Dream State
Still, modern DJs like myself are in the extraction business. We mine dreams.
Explain Yourself
The universe is not a question, it is an answer.
The Suchness Beyond
She had only named a feeling. A vague notion of Suchness that had taken hold of her when she first activated the quantum lens.
Man to PostMan
"I don’t need this physicality. Nobody does since the singularity. I’m ready to upload. I’m going Post!”
kNOWn
The chipmunk with its shark-blank eyes and its panicked keening as the tictocs methodically circled and closed on it.
Precision
Stilbee willed it. Every measurement made to push the ball his way. A principle of uncertainty to create certainty in his mind.
theotherside
He knew he would have to climb. He would have to struggle. Yet the call was strong. Beauty was up there. Comfort. Love. A forever place.
Sustainable
For the first time in many decades, Iswas rose from his perch, his bones cracking like shale.
Rosebot
In those early days before I was uprooted from home. Before I became Datazen Kane.
Intro to Intro
“To set a course, an end is imagined. An introduction, however, is never a beginning. It is a foretelling. A fate.”
thin places
“We’re like bugs at a window. We’ll know when to stop.”
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