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When Materials Start Acting Like Organisms
I was doing what I always do, scanning my feed across three of my favorite topics that unfortunately don’t usually line up cleanly. Abiogenesis. Nanotech. Materials science. Normally they behave like separate conversations, overlapping at the edges but rarely colliding.… Continue reading
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Same Category Isn’t Same Identity
On False Syncretism and Narrative Absorption I started this whole line of thought from a Threads exchange that went sideways in about three sentences. Someone confidently asserted that Yahweh is Geb in Egypt, Anu in Mesopotamia, Brahma in Hindu tradition.… Continue reading
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Where Probability Hardens into Cause
I always picture it as a zoom. Not metaphorically. Literally. Like one of those old internet images where you start with a human, then skin, then cells, then molecules, then atoms, until geometry replaces intuition. We begin at the scale… Continue reading
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Borrowed Stories and the Art of Catching Them
Dennis MacDonald is the kind of scholar who ruins dinner parties in the best possible way. He doesn’t argue that ancient authors copied other texts because they were lazy or deceitful. He argues it because ancient writers were trained to… Continue reading
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Treating Traumatic Stupidity in the Field
Medical textbooks are very calm about traumatic bleeding. They do not scold the chainsaw. They do not ask why the foot was there. They say things like uncontrolled hemorrhage leads to rapid loss of function and possibly death, apply pressure… Continue reading
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First Test: Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
My friend (and better biologist) Rucha asked me, half seriously and half testing me, “If you were teaching evolutionary biology, what would you give for the first of three tests?” Not a final, not a synthesis exam, but one that… Continue reading
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Contract Before Creed
Exodus 20 Between Bronze Age Treaties and Modern Belief When I read Exodus 20 closely, I can’t quite hear it as a barked list of rules. It reads, to my ear, like something older and more relational, a form shaped by the… Continue reading
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The Shape of Nothing
I started noticing it over coffee, which is not the worst place to notice ontological problems. It’s better than Christmas morning at your in-laws with 10 kids under 12, 2 dogs, and a cat. The café had a chalkboard sign… Continue reading
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Entropy Walks Into a Brewery
How a Casual Claim About Gravity Sent Me Down a Physics Rabbit Hole I first heard the phrase “entropy equals gravity” over a beer that was aggressively hoppy, the kind that tastes like a physics dare. We were at our… Continue reading
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Consciousness Is Not Magic
The Long Accident of Being Aware I didn’t come to thoughts and an understanding on consciousness through meditation or metaphysics. I came to it through error logs, feedback loops, and bad data. Information science has a way of stripping romance… Continue reading
