The collections of microbes, molecules, and mostly space that inhabit this infinitesimally small part of the universe that I have grown accustomed to think of as me cause my finger to touch the screen of my phone, which triggers electrical impulses which generate Unicode, translated into fonts, then back into zeros and ones on a packet switched network that itself is nothing but molecules and impulses such that your collection of microbes, molecules and mostly space that inhabit the infinitesimally small part of the universe that you have grown accustomed to think of as you believes it has understood.
We overlay all of this with our different stories and feel closer or further apart as a result.
Neither of us are in control of the process and none of it means anything.
It’s nothing to get bent out of shape about.
Did you happen to see this article about spiders and “extended cognition”? https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/spiders-web-part-its-brain-suggests-new-research?
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Hadn’t seen that. Fascinating.
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So I’m thinking about webs and phones and the nature of extended cognition.
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I’ve always loved the idea of the Noosphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
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