ORGANELLE

“My favorite superhero when I wasn’t a kid, I mean, I never really was… so I’m actually pretending I had the childhood I didn’t… was Salad Man.

Look, he spontaneously assembles himself from an incalculable range of wild vegetation, with the goal of sacrificing himself… herself… all their selves… to grant us a boost of bizzare nutritional substances, most of which we haven’t even »discovered yet…

And then, usually, he gets goop all over himself, so that there’s still some familiar-to-moderns-flavors in there

The whole thing doesn’t make sense. Doritos explode in his proximity from self-ironization…

Of course, as an actual child, I hated salads. Well, I was extremely picky about vegetables in general because they were fundamentally ambiguous.

But hey, some little girl in North Carolina was at the dinner table the other night and said: “When I was an adult, I died in the woods and was eaten by wolves.” Actual fact. And she’s »four. So if she can invent previous adulthoods, I can invent alternate childhoods. Right?”

— Bobby Yingo at the Tiny Room

“My experience leads me to assert that stars and worlds share evolutionary intelligence and other information across vast distances instantaneously, all day, every day. There are many fascinating implications of this theory, but for me one of the most compelling is that by obliterating Earth’s anciently evolved ecologies, we are not only destroying priceless intelligences and ecologies necessary to our own survival; we are committing a crime that touches every living world in timespace, by depriving those worlds of both the conserved intelligences of Earth’s ecologies and the medium through which this conversation travels.

The fact that human science is presently unaware of any process by which such information could be exchanged is relatively trivial; human science is aware of far less than .0001% of what is actually going on in and as organisms and living worlds, and our studies of physics — however seemingly ‘advanced’ to by some of our standards — are still embryonic in terms of the context from which we arise and in which we exist.”

Omnicide is lethal to our own lives and world… but its effects are not… and I suggest cannot be… merely local to Earth in space or time. This is part of why we must find ways to interrupt the behavior of our species as it relates to the remaining ecologies. These ecologies represent something we do not even have a term for the class of. And there are vast arrays of biocrucial concepts that our human lexicons contain no instance or analog of.”

— an anonymous informant

“My dog was clearly in a state of ECB (ecstatic canine backsplay).”

— infraheard

“My dad was an inveterate alcoholic. He drank all day, every day… all throughout my childhood. He wasn’t mean. Didn’t abuse us. Just drank. He would drink, and cry, and drink some more. I used to ask him all the time why he was drinking. Always heard the same answer.

“Dad, why do you drink all the time and cry?” I figured something bad happened to him as a kid. But he would always give the same answer: “Angel’s hair”.

That’s all he would say. It was a baffling mystery that plagued me for years.

Turns out I was right. Something bad did happen to him when he was little. After he died, my mom explained it to me.

See, his mom used to make pasta all the time. And he really believed in his mom. One day he looked at the ingredients on the pasta box and discovered it was just wheat. No angels. No hair. All that time he thought he was eating the hair of angels. Nope. Just wheat.

He never recovered from the shock. English made my daddy drink. English and pasta.”

— Bobby Yingo at the Green Room

“My confusion isn’t feigned.”

— infraheard

“My car is totally yellow.”

— tree pollens

p.s: I have no car and cannot s-crea=m

“My answer to “If not Bayesianism, then what?” is: all of human intellectual effort. Figuring out how things work, what’s true or false, what’s effective or useless, is “human complete.” In other words, it’s unboundedly difficult, and every human intellectual faculty must be brought to bear.3 We could call the study of that enterprise “epistemology”; and “rationality” is a collection of methods for it.4

Mostly, we have no idea how people figure things out. The answer is certainly not going to be some simple bit of math like Bayes’ Rule. We’re not going to get a complete story any time soon. What we can do—what I was hoping to do with “How to think real good”—is find heuristics; rules of thumb that often work in particular sorts of situations.”

“Most of what seems difficult at first glance is staggeringly less difficult than simply going along with our habits, expectations, and ‘the status quo’. So if you’re going to do that much work, allow me to suggest you do ‘the other kind’, that actually delivers on the promise of your human nature, birth, and hidden potentials.”

— an anonymous informant

“Most of the offers we pay attention to come from humans or corporations (non-human cohorts whose interests generally conflict with our own and the survival of life on Earth) that are either aggressively disoriented or comprise active threats to our personal safety — particularly the integrity of our emotions and minds.

In vetting transaction offers of any kind, we should pay attention to the purposive character of the offer, and what ‘lies behind’ it in terms of agendas — and the possible and actual consequences of our participation. In short? Who benefits and what those benefits cost… in terms of lives, intelligence… and possible futures for our world and minds.”

“Moroz reached this conclusion by testing the nerve cells of ctenophores for the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine and nitric oxide, chemical messengers considered the universal neural language of all animals. But try as he might, he could not find these molecules. The implications were profound.

The ctenophore was already known for having a relatively advanced nervous system; but these first experiments by Moroz showed that its nerves were constructed from a different set of molecular building blocks – different from any other animal – using ‘a different chemical language’, says Moroz: these animals are ‘aliens of the sea’.

If Moroz is right, then the ctenophore represents an evolutionary experiment of stunning proportions, one that has been running for more than half a billion years. This separate pathway of evolution – a sort of Evolution 2.0 – has invented neurons, muscles and other specialised tissues, independently from the rest of the animal kingdom, using different starting materials.”