Category: Abstraction
Movie Substrate: Reading 10,000 Films as Experiments on Reality
thought Experiment on thought Experiments Films are thought experiments. Critics review them as art; I wanted to read them as physics. So I built Movie Substrate — a tool that runs ten thousand films through the emergence framework and asks each one two questions: where did you hide consciousness, and which rule of reality did…
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The View From E14
There is a place from which all of it is visible. You will never stand there. This is about why you should imagine it anyway. Stop reading for a second and notice where you are. You are sitting somewhere. There is a chair, or a bed, or a train seat. There is light hitting a…
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Language
The Connector That Became the Floor Try to think about a problem without using language. Pick anything — a project at work, a worry about someone you love, what you want from the next year. Watch what happens when you reach for the thought. The thought arrives in words. Sometimes pictures. Sometimes a felt sense…
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The Sensing Surface
Then someone found the receipts. For forty years, the official consensus was clear: dietary fat causes heart disease. Cut the fat, save the heart. The entire food industry restructured around it — low-fat yogurt, fat-free cookies, margarine instead of butter. Governments published food pyramids with fat at the narrow top, the thing to avoid. Hospitals…
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