Always Be Teaching
Knowledge is the only thing that can truly empower successful resistance.
Fusion Is More Powerful Than Fission
Conflict is not fundamental to who we are as humans. It is a byproduct of our more collaborative tendencies.
Fifty Men, a Hundred Years
Socially negotiated meanings can change couldn’t into could and borrowing and reorganizing into Creation itself.
Pul-ease, Madame Glyn
Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn on a tiger skin? Or would you prefer to err with her on some other fur?
Use Your Words
Explicit communication is crucial to get beyond our very limited and biased guesses: you cannot read minds—and no one can read yours.
Between Us and Among Us
The phenomena that lie between us and among us are the most beguiling to us. Look there for your dignity.
Our Vanishing Conscience
The malformed conscience errs not from evil but from isolation—it cannot sense the field, cannot hear the teachers anymore. It follows a star of its own making, confident, smilingly ignorant, and morally disgusting.
Consciousness: The End
The light was the Sun, and my father held the Moon and the Earth in his hands.
Consciousness: The Hope
We have a shared Constitution—a body, a structure. Now we need a shared mind, and a spinal cord.
Consciousness: The Qualia
Individual consciousness is not learned, it is inherited, and it enables and powers human social-cultural learning.
Consciousness: The Sex
We face this in the same way we always have—via real conversation, with above-board, meaning-based teaching, learning, and action.
Consciousness: The Tools
Give us the tools of 2000 generations or so of cultural evolution, joint attention, high stakes, a division of labor, and a lot of work, and we can form and reform, to a significant degree, our own consciousnesses.
Consciousness: The Scene
Consciousness allowed our ancestors to spread out while maintaining cultural alignment. It operates in the same way in human infants and adults, providing for rapid cultural learning in noisy environments with significant poverties of linguistic stimuli.
I Think Therefore I'm a Genius
The 'genius' thinking you feel yourself to have is just associative learning, combined, crucially, with your talents for ad hoc reasoning and self-deception.
Transmissions 2: Drunk on Inference
This game makes no sense at any stage of instruction—neither hook, nor development, nor demonstration. If this is what you want, you should not want this.
Transmissions 1: Monologics
Multiple, aligned inferential views that have not been conversationalized to shared views. They are the E Pluribus without the unum.
Transmission and the Individual
Cultures are built to contain the mutually agreed-upon yet evolving impressions of conversations, not monologics of any kind—neither tyrannical nor swarm.