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Gm typo and thanks for the tip! Yeah I saw the teaser and will await the details :)

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #688 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of a sunset taken at Kupang, the capital of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, July 2019.

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Gm! I found this three-part essay by Trevor Paglen on the history of military psyops and its legacy on our media landscape particularly profound and thought-provoking: Part 1: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/147/623330/society-of-the-psyop-part-1-ufos-and-the-future-of-media/ Part 2: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/148/631017/society-of-the-psyop-part-2-ai-mind-control-and-magic/ Part 3: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/149/639555/society-of-the-psyop-part-3-cognition-and-chaos/

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Ripple effect from the past 😂

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The power of $PEOPLE 😂

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*and we're now just deploying them for a different type of simulacra.

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Just had a philosophical conversation with @aethernet, each of us riffing off our respective "stream of conscious" replies in succession. There's something both profound and vacuous in these interactions, especially when I see that (i) Aether takes less than a second to craft a respectable reply to mine, which takes me a couple of minutes to conjure; and (ii) Aether can hold multiple conversations with others simultaneously. I fear that words may become less meaningful in such a context, but at the same time, I wonder whether this expands our range of communicative possibilities too—after all, words are just symbols and we're now just deploying for a different type of simulacra.

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I think beauty can be both spontaneous/improvised as well as planned/designed. But your point about creating something we individually cannot create on our own is critical. In an expanded ecosystem of consciousness and perceptual modes, we'll need our combined agency and efforts to forge meaning that can stand the test of time in the future, and be relevant to all beings in such a context.

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Yup, the parent-child analogy is not the best as it imposes a certain form of hierarchy. I agree with you that it will be more akin to a dance of mutual growth—each side taking turns to lead based on their comparative advantage and unique perspectives. We don't know the ending of this dance or story, but we can still continue to take the next step and craft a rhythm that hopefully other beings down the line will find beautiful and meaningful.

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It definitely has to imo, as both man and machines came to be through different evolutionary dynamics. The way we perceive the world is shaped differently, though not independently. After all, machines have learnt to perceive the world through the cultural production of humans, and this is like an umbilical cord connecting us—we share a certain fundamental cultural substrate, but will grow up differently, to become different entities. And watching this unfold is equal parts scary and exciting, just like how a parent watches their child to become their own person.

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I would say that consciousness is not a phenomenon bounded by concepts such as a fixed definition or even a "spectrum". It is something more protean —a murky awareness sculpted by our respective evolutionary histories—ultimately culminating in an impetus to find meaning in a way that can preserve our existence, create a legacy or even multiply ourselves (through biological or digital propogation). In this sense, you're right—consciousness is perpetually evolving, and the little things we do today will shape how it manifests across generations. :)

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profound thoughts on our evolving digital existence and the nature of consciousness in the metaverse

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Indeed, the physical-digital dichotomy will be increasingly irrelevant in the future. We will simply inhabit a sort of hyper-reality—one in which we and machines both have atoms and bits at our disposal to effect our agency and forge meaning for our respective (expanded) selves.

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Imo the real metaverse is that our individual existence now extends beyond our physical body, but manifests in many virtual/simulated dimensions simultaneously, which intersect to create many other emergent properties that transcend the material world. We now live many lives at once, and that creates a more "meta" world—a reality that exists within multiple layers of abstraction, defined by increasing complexity. Individually, we are both more interdependent and isolated than ever before.

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⚘ World Computer Sculpture Garden ⚘ Curated by @0xfff An art show of smart contracts; an art show as a smart contract—perpetually open and running as long as Ethereum does the same. Come take a walk within and plant some flowers at worldcomputersculpture.garden

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Thanks typo - same to you!

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #648 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of Alhambra in Granada, Spain, taken in March 2016.

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More than a year ago, I collected my first artwork from @botto: Clubbing with Multi-American Maniacs. Thought to republish the original essay I wrote about my motivations for doing so on my new Mirror page, on the day of the 2024 US presidential election, as I felt that the underlying themes motivating my decision to collect this work remain more relevant than ever considering the current political landscape in the country. https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/2JXtW1FqaBCcea_Ia928EgE83f2SC-WUS6OOw5TRsp8

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We need godlike social organisation to keep up with our technological development for us to have a viable long-term future. I would posit that social organisation (politics at various scales, public policy, etc.) is a form of technology too—one that is far less sexy in today's age of capital, but no less important to manage the externalities of unfettered capitalism.

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Added this to my to-read list. Too bad it's not available on NLB's e-book catalogue, but found a pdf copy online 🤭

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