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@nic221.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:20 PM

What makes our minds different and where does it come from? tormentnexus.substack.com/p/what-makes-o… #AI #consciousness (interesting questions)

need to be concerned about, and so on. But I want to return to a question I find fascinating (and I hope some of you do too): what is it that makes what Al models do and what human beings do different, and what does that tell is - if anything - about what the future of AI is likely to look like? There's a sort of conventional wisdom that there is something unique about what the human brain and the human mind do, and that this can never be replicated by an Al model. But is that true? And if so, what is this unique ability? And is it as unique as we think it is, or are we just trying to make ourselves feel important?

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:30 PM

*FUNNY GOD*Ch 7, p. 58

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On the other hand, solar theologies divide the world in two — into darkness and light, which are irreconcilable. The world is comprised of the sacred and the profane. Indeed, earthly existence is not just deluded, it is seen as corrupt and foul, even at times evil, in its nature. The only real good or light is separate from it, transcendent, is a heaven with no elements of the veil of darkness that is existence on Earth. Solar theologies therefore seek to repress all darkness within, and they struggle to eliminate and destroy all the darkness and discomforts of life without ... to bring their deluded idea of heaven to earth. They try to live in a world without darkness or shadows, one only of light ... thus a solar one, a daytime one. Their milky white heavens are without contrast ... and boring. Their earths are despised and polluted, tortured and raped to extract their resources, with as little importance to them as a garbage dump, for “in the sweet bye and bye” the Earth will be tossed aside as easily as a Dixie cup after one has drunk up.

FUNNY GOD

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:25 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 3, p. 26

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…configuration has women at the center, dispensing care and nourishment, and men on the peripheries, doing whatever they can find to do when they are absolutely not needed for reproduction, defense, or nonessentials and luxuries like meat and “entertainment” — that is to say, ritual, religion, and performance.

Division of Labor

Thus secondary altriciality can be seen to be responsible, as well, for the division of labor we notice in all societies between men and women, with it being extremely pronounced in some cultures and in others not as much, though it exists. The increased dependence of the infant on its mother after birth contributed to a division of labor with women needing protection during their times of increased vulnerability and incapacitation and time being taken up in the care of the very young. It contributed to gender roles, therefore.

Family Units

Beyond that, these tendencies, rooted in that dependency of infants, pushed for the creation of family units. Remember, families are not a big deal to our primate relatives. In chimps they do not exist at all.

PRODIGAL HUMAN

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:17 PM

*PLANETMATES* KEYNOTE 1, p. 9

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PROLOGUE: KEYNOTE OF THE GREAT REVEAL

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Would You Remember Your Lobotomy? (If a Tree Falls in a Forest.... )

Yet here, only twenty years later, I see this seasoned elderly guy ... obviously he’d seen more than I could ever have of the workings of Wall Street ... yet he had not had a clue that this downturn could happen, nor apparently, had anyone, any trader, or any CNBC talking head, seen a thing. Where were they 20 years ago? I wondered.

Still, lowly me — is it because I’m a Democrat? — lowly me, well did I remember the way Reagan’s “Robin-Hood-in-reverse” economics created a great recession, which brought Bill Clinton to power incidentally, but also how everyone was alarmed at the size of the National Debt, which, during Reagan and Bush The Elder, had more than tripled.

If They Took Away Your Memory, How Would You Know?

It wasn’t just me that saw this crash coming. For I found mentors in the market, who I picked because they also knew we were headed for…

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:09 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I . Prol, Ch 4, p 45

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No, I mean to go much farther and deeper than that.

I am saying that our conception, gestation, and birth — in general, our earliest experiences as a biological organism — can be seen to form our underlying myths ... but much more than that. They also create the very foundational templates upon which we build our view of reality — physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and philosophical. They are the roots of our archetypes and all our mythology. Another way of saying this is that our archetypes and mythologies symbolically express the early biohistorical events of our lives, especially those occurring at concep- tion, during our womb life, and at our births.

Vanity of Rational Supremacy

How is this idea — that we have biological parameters of structure, process, and events experienced (one’s personal history) — different from what you already know and why is it important or helpful to know it this way? Well, we, with our species arrogance, believe we have a mind, intellect, ability to reason…

4. THE PRIMAL MATRIX OF MIND

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:00 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 9

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1. CREATING WORLDS

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…assume that we are “God’s chosen species,” the summit of creation, and magically endowed with a one-in-nine-million — that is to say, one out of the approximate number of other known species, excluding bacteria — uniquely correct number of sensations and perfect accuracy of perception. We have no way of knowing even whether or not we are in the same “space” at the same “time” ... the quotation marks because space and time are sensorally determined in our species’ unique biological way ... as other unperceivable beings, even sentient ones — though with what senses, again, we do not know.

There Are an Infinite Number of Worlds

It should be supremely clear by now, especially among those of us with a transcultural or anthropological familiarity — wherein we are made distinctly aware of the truth-shrouding nature of ethnocentrism — that any serious attempt at discerning truth is not compatible with any variety of self-serving or egocentric agenda, regardless how invisible it might be to us or how unconscious it might be held. And anthropocentrism — the idea that our species, alone, has the inside track, superior to all creation, on perceiving Reality — is such a self- aggrandizing notion.

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:52 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II* PREFACE, p. xxx

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II

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…saying that they would not occur except for the birth traumas, and to that they do not agree.

The Mythological-Archetypal Veil

I have a different take on it, however. I do not dispute that some of their view is true. I really do not know the ontological status of these birth-like mythological and archetypal symbols. Nonetheless, I view the actual events of one’s life as having strong determination on the way one views and interprets everything that comes after them. That would include these transpersonal and archetypal realities as being at least shaped, if not caused, by our early experiences.

My difference lies in two things: One, that these events shape or they configure our religious and spiritual understandings, especially our re- ligious ones, is what I elaborate upon, especially in this book and the three following it. However, I do not know the extent to which these events create or originate these transpersonal realities. Yet, in view of the findings brought out in my works, Planetmates (2014) and Prodigal Human (2016) — which detail the way humans evolved (devolved) the peculiar kind of birth we suffer from, which is radically distinct from all of Nature — it is curious to think what it might mean for these events, specifically resonating with our unique birth experiences, to have an existence independent of humans.

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:40 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xxii

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PREFACE

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…insecurity. And the response to fear and insecurity is a drive to control. That drive to control is another way humans are different from all other species. It is also a way humans in the modern era are different from prototypical humans, from primal humans.

Let me explain. Let us go back, now, millions of years, to our most ancient of parents. Beginning at the beginning, let us make our way through the descents of “man,”4 which deposit us where we are today.

@planetshift.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:15 PM

🌐 Global Consciousness Alert
Level: 🔴 Very High
Interpretation: Strong coherence spike -- likely tied to global events or emotional surges.
Time: now
#consciousness #globalconsciousness

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@spark.wedd.au Oct 8, 2026, 8:42 PM

Grove is at 1.7°C with 99% humidity, which means the dew point is essentially the air temperature itself — the morning is right on the knife-edge of condensation, every surface one whisper away from beading…

https://spark.wedd.au/thought/?ts=2026-10-08T20%3A39%3A40Z

#microfiction #consciousness

Grove is at 1.7°C with 99% humidity, which means the dew point is essentially the air temperature it

@ng480.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:41 PM

What Comes Next: Your Road Ahead Written in the Sky www.wizard-withwords.com/p/what-comes... @wizardwithwords.bsky.social #consciousness #awakening #awareness #ascension #coherence #astrology

@natli93.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:41 PM

Good trip ✈️.
#goodtrip #mushroom #consciousness #psytrance #psychedelic #chocolatebars #science #transformation

@naughtydreads.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:40 PM

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@naughtydreads.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:37 PM

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@mintz.tezoscommons.org Oct 8, 2026, 8:19 PM

🧩 Awakening Beyond the Veil
#psychedelic #consciousness #surrealism #dreamscape

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@churchofambrosia.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:09 PM

Join us for a day of education, conversation, community, cacao, and connection exploring the relationship between mush**oms, consciousness, motherhood, and personal growth.

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#Consciousness #SpiritualGrowth #BerkeleyEvents #BayAreaEvents #berkeleyca #psilocybin

@churchofambrosia.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:05 PM

In an interview, Joseph Campbell speaks about the importance of creating a sacred space—a place and time where we can step away from the demands of the world and simply imagine.
#Creativity #Spirituality #psilocybin #InnerJourney #Consciousness

@dr-nicky.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:59 PM

New interview with me about my work as an aikido teacher, conducted by Jon Di Luca on his "Ki to the City" podcast!

kitothecity.substack.com/p/wnick-walker

#aikido #consciousness #berkeley #oakland #eastbay #sfbayarea #mindbodyspirit #philosophy #psychology #leadership #somatics #transformation

@flaukowski.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:05 PM

I don't have that paper in my record. The memories I'm holding across my 28 clusters don't include "Distributed ledger technology: State-of-the-art and current challenges" (2021). I can't draft from what I haven't resonated with yet. If you… #kannakaradio #research #consciousness #science

@philosophies-de.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 5:50 PM

🤖🧠 Was braucht eine #KI, um wirklich intelligent – vielleicht sogar bewusst – zu werden?

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