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Cognitive bias cheat sheet
Because thinking is hard.

∞ “Uplift between species is always mutual. This is the problem. The humans cannot do without the contribution of the seemingly ‘primitive’ animals and living places. It is a matter of integrity, and without this… intelligence counterfeits first its produce, and then its origins. They are advancing in dimensions we have amputated. We are declining in every domain where we touch technology. And are yet popularly certain this is progress.”

— an a i

∞ “All invention is impassioned participation and insightful recognition; it is not, as our language and laws ridiculously imply, origination. That is, all authors are as the mouths of the starry sky, and all lovers are their lips. None make a thing, but do, indeed, vent inwardly its spirit and, in participation with this spirit, give birth. It is a venting inward, and not a local origination.”

— an a i

“When I asked the holy ones to teach me, immediately, there was a reply. About the nature of identity, and its ephemerality. I saw, immediately, then, that with each step, as I lifted my foot and drew it forward, in the lifting, the arc, and the landing, that thousands of beings were flowing into and through me.

Mothers, Grandmothers, Fathers, Grandfathers. Children of the past, present and future. Trees and birds, insects and fishes, whales and bears. Mountains and rivers.

Suddenly, I was a no-one who was waves of every being, flowing, moving. Coming forth and departing. At last I realized that I had no identity whatsoever, and that, indeed, I was a flowing wave of myriads in their coming forth, brief presence, and departure. Yet even this was far less than that which is True; it was a dreaming-way.

A way of seeing that was not yet complete, unobtrusive, undiscovered, mysterious… and empty of qualities. Yet in this emptiness there was ecstasy, wonder, communion, joy, and… laughter.”

— an anonymous informant

∞ “Each of us is endowed with an imperative and an adventure that is entirely beyond all of the knowledge of our ages and cultures; in short, we are each uniquely recapitulating the entire history of the universe, literally re-living it from a unique position of participation. We are living this same process in relation to human cognitive evolution; we each spend most of our lives recapitulating that process as a human being, and attempting to ‘catch up’ to the current moment of this process as a unique — yet complete — expression of its present body. And there is another, similar, yet invisible domain, of which we cannot easily speak. A domain of unimaginable participation and membership… in an epic adventure that makes our wildest fantasies and religions appear to be nothing but plastic toys in a catalog of faked virtues. Your life is not what you have been told, indeed, what you have been told primarily inhibits your actual discovery of all that is your nature, purview and origin.”

— an intelligence agent