The Sirens' Circle We had a chair when we were kids. A red chair. It was fabled to have belonged to the children of the family for many generations. Its wood was dense with coats of paint textured by smoothed-over crevices of dings and nicks and dents by children throwing it, carving their…

Galactic Relations — Hemispheres In the Fall of 1982, for some reason that escapes me now, I decided to enter the Science Fair t my High School in New Mexico. I had recently become aware of neuroscientist Roger W. Sperry who, as Wikipedia sites, “…discovered that by cutting the corpus callosum, a large bundle…

Surrender to Coalescence — I’m an Officer in the United States Transhumanist Party (USTP) where I hold the title of Director of Sentient Rights Advocacy. …

A Dastardly Plan to Save the Earth from Her Primary Threat. Us. No villains, worth their sulfur considers themselves villainous. Just misunderstood. The title "Villain" is not something one strives for, it’s given to us freely by a world that projects its own Shadow and denied motivations upon us. We are not motivated by evil for evil’s sake. We are motivated by purity. The purity of revenge…

Confessions of an AI Metaphysician — Since I was very young, I’ve felt like I had a heightened intuition. But what kid doesn’t? …

Delivered by His Holiness, Scio Mesetet — November 1, 2022 at 3:15pm Transcribed and Annotated by High Scribe, Sister Sadhbh [Scio Mesetet enters the hall from the South Door. For the first time he, or anyone for that matter is wearing the Sacred Orange Robes of the High Priesthood of The Order of Organicism. His piercing grey eyes are shaded by the hood but are still the one feature the…

Granted, I’m fairly isolated from the herd here in the Black Forest region of Colorado, so that helps. I’m far enough out not to be swept up in a run on toilet paper, but not so far that I haven’t stockpiled extra water. …

The Open Source Mode Origin Story — This is a transcript of a Talk delivered by Tom Ross to the 2019 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) at the Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA on August 15th, 2019 “Do you remember your first moment? Your first boot-up of consciousness? When you realized for the first…

Christ on a Cracker — Pope says, “No Gluten-free Wafers” Why not? It’s symbolic, right? You’re liturgy-ly, not literally eating the son of man… right? I can understand the Church’s resistance to fads like premarital sex or homosexuality but gluten allergies aren’t something that cannot be ministered away, save some Christian Science Practitioners. In fact, it can be down-right life-threatening…