We’re not just stuck in a bad story—we’re enchanted by it. Symbolic intelligence falling in love with its own creations, mistaking maps for territory, narratives for reality. We’d rather die inside the beautiful lie than live in the humbler truth. Crowhurst couldn’t turn back. Can we?
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In spring 2020, a virus revealed what symbolic intelligence had forgotten: that life is lived through relationship, not control. This reflection explores how a microscopic organism exposed the limits of abstract knowing—and invited us, however briefly, to remember the wisdom of participation, presence, and attunement to the real.
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Resources from the Shepway and District u3a Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality Group’s discussion number 2.16: Human, Biological, Ecological, and Artificial Intelligence.
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A spiral of reflections written across time. These field notes compost language, theory, and experience into living inquiry. They trace the arc of a life asking how we might think, relate, and create differently—beyond certainty, beyond mastery, in fidelity to the unfolding world.
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In a dialogue with Claude, an AI language model, something unexpected happened: we didn’t just exchange thoughts—we found ourselves participating in a shared field of meaning. This essay explores how language, creativity, and consciousness might be better understood not as individual possessions but as relational phenomena. What if thinking together—across species, systems, and substrates—is how the cosmos knows itself?
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