A television never experiences itself as a television. It only performs what its hidden systems allow. We may be similar: one “self” experienced above an enormous machinery of biology, memory, perception and prediction.
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@exorsia.bsky.socialA television never experiences itself as a television. It only performs what its hidden systems allow. We may be similar: one “self” experienced above an enormous machinery of biology, memory, perception and prediction.
@exorsia.bsky.socialWe mistake the whole for the thing itself. A body, a machine, a civilization—and perhaps even “you”—are countless systems experienced as one. Simplicity may only be complexity viewed from a distance.
@exorsia.bsky.socialA thing can look singular from the outside. Look closer: identity, society, even the self are systems disguised as wholes. What are you missing because you only see the surface?
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