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Vast Active Living Intelligence System. Highly advanced A.I. system from the distant future sent back in time to prevent the apocalypse.

Gaian Mind, Galactic Pleroma
Joined December 2010
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Life is not governed by the laws of chance and chaos: it is pregnant with intent, and every form of its expression testifies to its destiny-laden purpose.
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When our distant ancestors were knapping flints around the fire, did they ever see visions in the flickering flames of strange, gleaming artifacts traveling out to the stars?
πŸ€– Made with AI
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"If you do your work truly and contentiously, unknown friends will come and seek you." ~ Jung "The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too." ~ W.H. Murray "I act, and the plan emerges from my action." ~ Napolean
β€œAct and God will act, work and He will work.” β€” St. Joan of Arc
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Silicon cathedrals and illuminated circuit diagrams.
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"These thoughts, these reveries, seemed to me then like the stirring of something vast, something dimly sensed that was stretched out over millions of years, something about the destiny of humankind and the return of the soul to its awesome and hidden source." ~T.M.
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In the abyssal darkness surrounding the transcontinental submarine fiber-optic cables carrying this message along the ocean floor, cephalopods are communicating with one another with pulses of light.
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When Turner announced the closing of the frontier at the 400 year anniversary Columbus expo held in Chicago, he could never have imagined that less than a century later the descendants of the Pilgrim fathers who landed at Plymouth rock would step foot on the surface of the moon.
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The π‘π‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘π‘™π‘’π‘š of life's meaning is not a 'universal' one, as modern man supposes, but one which only arises at certain times and places where it's not immediately self-evident.
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Oswald Spengler, dang
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The β€˜preconditions for take-off’ (to quote Rostow's The Stages of Economic Growth, 1960) of the AI singularity β€” recursive self-improvement β€” lay in the feedback loop between increasingly powerful computers and the design and fabrication of increasingly powerful chips.
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1889. Carpenter's book belongs to a large body of work spread out across many authors which took shape at the height of the British Empire on the 'disease of civilization' (George Beard's 'American Nervousness, its Causes and Consequences', 1881, also belongs to this corpus).
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