When writing was first invented / it was seen as an unnatural removal of who we are and offloading it to an external tool. Plato warned against it, Socrates thought it lessened us by removing our pure ability to remember.

But now, think of all the wonderful pieces of literature that have emerged since. Pinnacles of human achievement and essays, fiction, poems - because human culture no longer see it as an external “technology” - it is simply part of who we are

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

The world with no writing: Who TF are Plato and Socrates?

Moderate-to-severe symptoms.


Writing a book /mirror-loom : https://paragraph.xyz/@mirrorandloom/

Iain McGilchrist goes heavily into left brain and right brain on this in Master and Emissary on how writing has further bifurcated our minds over last 3 Millenia.

Tldr: The written word and procedural knowledge are a kind of Godellian knot that ties us to an illusory objective world (although useful for tech and survival.)

Imho meditation is the cryptographic key to go beyond.

Pretty sure youtube reads my casts. This turned up on algo today. Worth a listen.

Pretty sure youtube reads my casts. This turned up on algo today. Worth a listen.

https://youtu.be/e3nIEHvutFI?si=uO40fobvqfoqP76M

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”