being in The Dark

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Whatever the shape “our universe” (our?) is—Klein bottle, say?— its expansion isn’t happening in 4-d (space-time). It’s happening in greater dimensionality, which We’ll never know, never comprehend.

The Earthan Being evolves.

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The Internet is an electronic organism. Seeing an animation of its actual evolution (2003 to 2021) astounds me (link upcoming).

Beginning around 2003, the actual structure of the Internet at various days was computed, graphically transposed (for each computation), then merged this year into a time series which shows an electronic organism growing:

the body of Earthan intelligence evolving. (Click “Learn More” to see the animation.)

notes to the great silence

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An ensouled singularity divines conceivability, anticipating
unborn songs.

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for astro-science funding—then beyond

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The following is a letter I sent today to David Overbye, the lead science writer at the NYTimes, in light of his article today, “American Astronomy’s Future Goes on Trial in Washington.” I’m posting this copy because it’s fun creative writing (below the “• • •” separation point in the letter), after a short wish that he do his best to inspire funding (text above the “• • •” point).

I’m commonly amazed that I often change my attitude toward emails that I’ve sent, several hours after sending them, and that happened today. Blog posting allows for revision that sent letters don’t allow, of course, which can cause unprovoked embarrassment, and did earlier today.

now here this

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I'm not giving attention to this blog lately, but this will eventually be
a major aspect of my online writing.  

The Plan is that my constellation of online projects will all eventually lead into a musing of my being ultimately in the condition of everyone: a short life in an ordinary galaxy speeding away from all other galaxies (though our Milky Way will fuse with Andromeda in a few billion years) in this universe that’s evidently expanding infinitely from a Big Bang that happened inexplicably from Nowhere.

There is that in this. And We will never know why.

“...this universe...”? A universe among others? (Is the especially blue area of the COBE image [near the center] another universe bumping this one?)

“...our Milky Way...”? Our Milky Way?

Hello, Silence, my old friend.

...text...text...text.

So what? We create good reason
to flourish, evolving
by design
of
Our
own.

I love being—despite ultimate mystery echoing in quantum foam.

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transcendental techno-Earthanity

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This posting has been revised in light of the astounding recent animation of the evolution of the Internet, and a new version posted:

“The Earthan Being evolves.”

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a brief mediation in light of a fossilized skulland a recent family photo

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Dear man of the moon,

The summer fog over the S.F. Bay isn’t so low tonight that I can’t see
the emerald city across the way. High up, your three-quarter face emerges and wanes in the wind.