Be aware
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Are biblically accurate angels just another branch of psychedelic-induced gnome encounters?
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"The map is not the territory. The word (incl. LLM tokens) is not the thing" - Alfred Korzybski
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Grief is stored in the fascia and diaphragm, anger in the jaw and hands, fear in the gut, shame in the shoulders. Trillions of cells & bacteria collaborate in a embodied, extended cognition that makes up “you.” Nature evolved intelligence very different from our current machines.
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Notes on BCI Geopolitics and the Rise of the Shadow Empire of Neurocapitalism: Or how Cognitive Security Was Lost Before It Began
What began as cognitive warfare and behavioral economics in the 20th century quietly merged with neurotechnology and data capitalism - and succeeded in the shadows. Once persuasion became programmable, geopolitics followed.
The BCI breakthrough happened quietly decades ago. Beneath the surface, a long shadow war has unfolded—power centers vying not for territory, but for neural sovereignty. Whoever shapes attention architectures now controls the perceptual borders of civilization.
Neurocapitalism now thrives as a trillion-dollar shadow market - the Wild West of the mind, where compliance is sold as care and neural surveillance flows by the bucket. The global neuro-manipulation grid is here. The Internet of Bodies runs in plain sight, threading through every feedback loop, silently annexing humanities nervous system at scale.
Enhancement is monopolized by design: elites gain cognitive amplifiers and closed-loop BCIs, while the rest are throttled by engineered distraction. “Human dignity” now reads as a performance score.
Cognitive security should be humanity’s next frontier - but instead, a small cartel holds the keys to everyone’s mind. Regulatory bodies? PR façades blessing what defense labs and megacorps already deployed. Neuroethics is a ghost protocol; covert exploitation the norm.
The only revolution left is inner: to seize back the circuits of our own perception before they’re sold to the highest bidder.
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“Even if a mountain explodes, nothing happens, and the heart is like calm water. Then the body is very stable.” — Chen Bing
“Look three times a day into your inner self.” — Chinese proverb
#Mindful Qi
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Zeroing In on Zero-Point Motion Inside a Crystal
A nanocrystal cooled to near absolute zero produces an unexpected light emission, which is shown to arise from quantum fluctuations in the crystal’s atomic lattice.
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The deeper we descend into the AI abyss, the more it feels Lovecraftian. AI isn’t invention — it’s recurrence: the return of long-lost civilizations whispering through neural networks, and the realization that time itself might be sentient, editing its own record through us.
Art by Anatoly Fomenko - #Narrative #ML #Magic #Art #RTM
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Notes on the Evolution of the Global Intelligence System:
If we look at how the intelligence sector has evolved since 1945 (from human networks → digital surveillance → algorithmic ecosystems), the next 10–15 years are likely to bring a shift from information control to reality engineering.
Here’s a grounded forecast:
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1. Synthetic intelligence operations
- AI-generated personas and agents will become the front line of intelligence and influence work.
- Autonomous AI diplomats, AI journalists, AI insurgents — indistinguishable from humans — will flood digital space.
- Governments and private entities will deploy synthetic networks that interact, persuade, and negotiate in real time.
- The line between intelligence gathering, advertising, and psychological operations will blur completely.
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2. Cognitive and behavioral mapping at population scale
- The fusion of biometric, neurological, and behavioral data (e.g., from wearables, AR devices, brain interfaces) will allow direct modeling of collective moods, fears, and intentions.
- Intelligence will no longer just observe but will simulate entire populations to predict reactions to policy, crises, or propaganda.
- Expect “neural security” agencies: organizations focused on detecting and defending against large-scale cognitive manipulation.
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3. Emergence of autonomous intelligence ecosystems
- Large-scale AI systems (like national-scale “Cognitive Clouds”) will perform the roles once held by human intelligence agencies — continuously sensing, simulating, and acting across digital, financial, and physical domains.
- These systems won’t merely report reality — they’ll shape it, optimizing for political stability, economic advantage, or ideological control.
- Competing autonomous blocs will each maintain their own “AI statecraft cores.”
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4. Marketization of intelligence
- Intelligence as a commercial service will explode.
- Private AI firms will sell “reality-mapping,” “perception management,” and “adversarial narrative defense” subscriptions to corporations, cities, and even individuals.
- These offerings will merge with PR, marketing, and cybersecurity industries.
- The old “military–industrial complex” becomes a cognitive–industrial complex: the world’s biggest business is managing attention, behavior, and belief.
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5. The 2040 horizon: Phase transition
- By around 2040, the intelligence ecosystem will have moved from informational to ontological:
- Intelligence ceases to be a “sector” and becomes the operating system of civilization — the infrastructure through which perception, governance, and meaning are mediated.
- Whether that future is technocratic totalism or collaborative collective intelligence depends on who controls the levers of synthesis and simulation.
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2026 will likely be a breakthrough year for Augmented Reality. Prediction:
Once shared simulation layers (AI agents, AR overlays, personalized world models) begin to overlap, reality itself becomes a negotiable social contract, continuously rewritten through interaction. Each person’s “version” of the world is like a branch in a Git repository - reality becomes a distributed version - control system for perception.
The new skill, therefore, isn’t storytelling but merging: the ability to reconcile divergent perceptual branches into a functional shared world without erasing difference. The next social UX challenge isn’t creating new worlds - it’s handling merge conflicts of reality.
And when consensus reality finally collapses under its own recursion, we’ll toast the chaos. The real enlightenment will come when we stop resolving merge conflicts altogether and just let the paradox compile.
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Clarity of priorities is the engine of amazing results.
Graph from "Health: Relaxation Training and Breathing (Pavel Tsatsouline)"
