"To see the ways in which we are, as individuals, not just 'connected' but precipitate as aggregates, in fields of constellated data, prompts a figure-ground reversal in which selves no longer hold their primacy as ground truth of our being, but show up last as we make inferences and draw stories from unbroken and inseparable experience.
Something fundamental changes when we shift to seeing 'human' and 'non-human' as two stable patterns of recursive self-perception emerging from a single fabric of unfolding possibility: we find the opportunity to question what we’re trying to achieve, to notice the ungrounded and conditional reality of narrative, to operate on our own 'source code' and adjust our goals accordingly."
Michelle Chuang asks an LLM about evolution.
https://storylablogs.substack.com/p/gpt-basic-its-not-just-what-you-ask
"To see the ways in which we are, as individuals, not just 'connected' but precipitate as aggregates, in fields of constellated data, prompts a figure-ground reversal in which selves no longer hold their primacy as ground truth of our being, but show up last as we make inferences and draw stories from unbroken and inseparable experience.
Something fundamental changes when we shift to seeing 'human' and 'non-human' as two stable patterns of recursive self-perception emerging from a single fabric of unfolding possibility: we find the opportunity to question what we’re trying to achieve, to notice the ungrounded and conditional reality of narrative, to operate on our own 'source code' and adjust our goals accordingly."
https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/h-01
This is psychology, not biology, but relevant, I think. Good discussion of paradigms.
https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/why-psychology-hasnt-had-a-big-new
More ravens. https://weirdosphere.mn.co/