Two prokaryotic cells formed a partnership 1.5 billion years ago—once, in four billion years. Every complex life form descends from that singular event. If two cells could change everything, what might humans choosing differently accomplish? But first, we must honour all the paths that didn’t lead to metacrisis.
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Reality is trying to speak.
Not through noise, but through entangled rhythms—forest roots, breath, emergence. This essay is a threshold offering: a voice shaped by age, complexity, and relational clarity. It invites you not to agree, but to listen. What do you hear when you stop trying to know?
The BBC’s Secrets of the Brain tells us human intelligence is evolution’s crown jewel. But what if that’s the problem? This essay explores two deep errors in the story we tell about minds—and asks what kind of intelligence we need now, at the edge of collapse.
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