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The Virus and the Algorithm
It's (not) alive - flat and fragmented - antivirals
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Gunnar
18
Speak, Primate! Read, Human!
Orangutan language - reading for fun - gather round, children
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Gunnar
8
Phase Change
Ice - life - love
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10
Thirteen Seconds, or Intelligence Without Brain
Thirteen seconds - slime & reason - yuck, bodies
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Gunnar
9
Muse & Mycelium
Muse me - mycelium flow - cracks, creativity, and confounding factors
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Gunnar
4
Fireflies and Binary Stars
Flicker, firefly - orbit, alight - constellations
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Gunnar
7
Three Years on Substack, or the Fall from Eden
Freedom of reach - hanging garden - sunk cost
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12
Coffee Shop Conversations
Beethoven - dad's X - reduced to want - nanotech moth - etc.
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9
Blue Jay
Feathers - leaps - wings
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17
Symbiosis, or What Should I Write About?
Niche - always feeling - me, who?
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6
You Are a Bundle, a Field, a Loop, and a Rhythm
Identity bundles - brain fields and strange loops - synchronize with me, baby
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6
Elephant
The beasts in my head, a parable
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15
Subtle Sparks
Subtle Sparks
Science essays - biology and literature, technology and philosophy, dancing across disciplines in pursuit of ideas
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