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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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Trust: The Invisible Currency
You’ve never seen trust. You can’t put it under a microscope, weigh it on a scale, or point to where it lives. And yet, in the time it takes to read this sentence, trillions of dollars will move across borders based largely on trust. Strangers will climb into cars driven by other strangers. Patients will…
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