Thank you @insideclimatenews.org and @katiesurma.bsky.social for diving into our recent publication in partnership with The More-Than-Human Life Program (@nyulaw.bsky.social) by: César Rodríguez Garavito, David Gruber, Ashley Otilia Nemeth and @begus.bsky.social.

Language can be tricky to parse without context. For instance, the sentence “Rowan fed his pet chicken” is ambiguous. Is the chicken Rowan’s pet or his pet’s meal? Some AI models can recognize the syntactic differences between these two possible meanings.

Excited to release our new work: Petri Dish Neural Cellular Automata! pub.sakana.ai/pdnca We investigate how multi-agent NCAs can develop into artificial life 🦠 exhibiting complex, emergent behaviors like cyclic dynamics, territorial defense, and spontaneous cooperation.

This video is Michael Levin's more concise statement about his "platonic space research program". It's interesting to notice that Levin's neo-neoplatonism is not based on quantum physics, as it is often the case but is also implicit in Newton's classical physics. youtu.be/EdEqgCOSx7E?...

Talking of hyperobjects (see my link to Michael Johnson's piece a few days ago), I'd completely forgotten my early blog post titled 'Hyperobject / S.M.I².L.E.' (2019), which nobody read. Short, sweet & speculative: rawsemantics.home.blog/2019/07/18/h...

Reading Samuel Arbesman's delicious "The Magic of code". Happy to see him mention "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", the first computer book I ever owned, before even i had a computer ! (or maybe I already had the Oric Atmos, I don't remember !)

Mmmh. I'm a complete non-believer in the Simulation Hypothesis myself, but the argument given in this press release (i cannot judge the real paper, being mathematically challenged) seems to me confused and self contradictory 1/

I absolutely need this book !

Demons and Christians long and timely Erik Davis rant tuning in particularly on the bizarro Tucker Carlson interview about the occult that name dropped all the usual oddities Burroughs, Gysin, John Lillly, Genesis P and old Uncle Aleister

Mushrooms May Replace Metal in Future Computers — And You Could Build One At Home www.discovermagazine.com/mushrooms-ma...

Not a new article, but I discovered it today. It’s the first time I’ve read about a connection between Gregory Bateson and Maya Deren. lareviewofbooks.org/article/tens...

I'm not sure I've read this Catherine Moore's story. I'll have to check it out. But Catherine Moore was an incredibly influential author for me as a teenager, either though Northwest Smith stories or through "Mimsy were the Borogoves in collaboration with Henri Kuttner (a.k.a Lewis Padgett).

(apparently in open access, this is not always the case for SciAm. If you are interested, save it to your hard disk, because I'm not sure how long it will last)

My chat with Whitley Strieber about how one gets from rock and roll to what I do now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBn...

Very interesting stuff. Info I never read anywhere else before

Undoubtedly an important document. But we should go beyond Evola, who is the elephant in the room, and also question the impact of a René Guénon (whose reactionary politics are self-evident) , but also more "discreet" far-right influencers, like D.T. Suzuki or Mircea Eliade.

This is quite close to my point of view. A conscious universe doesn’t mean it has to be good. The real hope offered by idealism or panpsychism is that, if true, we could develop technologies of consciousness to alleviate suffering more efficiently than “materialist” ones.

Very Happy to Announce that my book, "Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson" is this year's winner of the S.I. Hayakawa Book Award from the Institute of General Semantics!

I’m fascinated by the idea of a game like No Man’s Sky where infinite new civilizations could be generated dynamically with their own languages as the player explores the universe.

Try out some of the newest languages on our project page: conlangcrafter.github.io

I cannot help thinking about Grant Morrison's The Invisibles where origami is used as a basis for time travel. Also, the amplituhedron often comes up in Donald D. Hoffman's "idealist" theory of conscious agents.

Weird theory of the day... scitechdaily.com/what-if-the-...

This is wonderful. I had no idea ideas per Lakoff about the centrality of metaphor in language go back so far. Delighted that my Alchemy book stimulated such thoughts.

Our work on how to model language in humans, animals, and machines with more realistic deep learning approaches in the Communications of ACM today. cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

A question for all Bluesky occultists : I'm writing a paper (in French) where I want to introduce the term "occulture" a concept completely unknown to french readers. But who is the first creator of the concept : Partridge, @carlabrahamsson.bsky.social, P-Orridge ? Somebody else ? #OccultSky

I had argued with David Bowie, gotten drunk with Iggy Pop, and Debbie Harry had ironed my skinny ties, but if I was ever starstruck it was then, getting through a bottle or two with the man whose work had changed my life. - www.amazon.com/Touched-Pres...

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back go.nature.com/4pqGYCP

A fascinating essay on LAM by the talented Ben Joffe! perfumedskull.com/2025/09/16/a...

New #Article up on my #Portfolio #Blog, something for those who need to hack their imaginations when calling internal spaces to mind during either meditation or ritual. Especially useful for those working the Cthonos Rite via the excellent audio instructions. theacceleratedchaote.com/2025/09/13/g...

The cells of your body follow simple rules and play off one another to form a complete organism. The researcher Alexander Mordvintsev has developed “neural cellular automata,” building blocks that can self-assemble into any form. @georgemusser.com reports: www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembl...

I remember that when I first read Cosmic Trigger, the chapter about the Fundamental Fysiks group fascinated me the most. Then I didn’t hear about these people again until David Kaiser’s book came out. And then, of course, the Nobel Prize...1/

Side note: if you want to play with "Daisy world", the model used as a basis for this paper, you can do it here (click on "model info" if you want to understand the theory behind it) www.netlogoweb.org/launch#https...

"The fact people can be aware of 'nothing' while asleep might tell us more about the mind than any dream ever could." This short article should be of interest to my fellow voyagers into the inner spheres of Tiamat's womb and the imminent nothingness it holds. theconversation.com/can-you-be-a...

Two posts published today pointing (roughly) in the same direction. The first one :

This promises to be extremely interesting. Something important is happening in Life Sciences, these days... thoughtforms.life/symposium-on...

Can language influence our perception? 🧵 A new study looks at the Aboriginal language Murrinhpatha and determines that it does.

...the claim that the director of the Smithsonian in the late 1800s, orchestrated a cover-up of evidence for giants of a lost race in contact with Europe and built pyramids and mounds across America... Native Americans were 'too stupid and lazy' to have done it...

This is a neat video by @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social, relevant to the considerations we've been playing with as part of #MythAugust, and very much the sort of thing we mean when we talk about a world feeling "lived-in" on @worldbuildcast.bsky.social. youtu.be/pjrrUZeJMSo

Sun Ra's music is sometimes too far out, even for me ! But he was undoubtedly one of the greatest jazz pianists and composers. He is also very important in the field of "occulture" but I'd like to find more sources on his beliefs. So far I only have "A Pure Solar World", a book by Paul Youngquist.

Perhaps it could be related to the art of memory loci, or to Camillo's Theater of Memory? Valid link (the one on the web page is incorrect): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hu-Man, with Terence Stamp and Jeanne Moreau, full movie on YouTube (very weird) : youtu.be/jh1tvTtzwq0?...

Nothing is holier than noodles.

Really excited to share this with you all! The website is already live at anadodik.github.io/publication/...

I almost didn't understand anything, but theoretical physics remains, for me, the most extraordinary form of poetry. I was at least able to notice the mention of the amplituhedron, a concept frequently referred to by Donald D. Hoffman, the creator of my favorite "idealist" theory of the universe.

The return of the OG continues to delight and astound! I show up in the comments sharing a jewel from my correspondence w/ RAW substack.com/home/post/p-...