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Turns out big nested fractal complicated ideas take a lot of work if you're going to do them justice, who knew. In the meantime though, noodling on this has led to other, more-digestible cool ideas, so here's one of those. https://t.co/OkaS9DoZpB
@Cantide1 @SeanMombo Can also find new eyes to bounce models off of, to see if their experiences can spark something. https://t.co/25jcC3PtSX Think I have a level-3 structure steady enough in my head to write about it in enough detail to maybe be useful, later today maybe. (Watch this space)
Aside: this will also start laying groundwork for concepts that I will be reusing for the next <while>. This is an interesting technique to break stuff down: - try to write about something big - deep-dive into details - post that as a sub-thread and refer back to it later
So: Consider your human* body. It is comprised of atoms, is it not? (How curious) Remember that the atoms in a body are not the same over time. Material will enter the body, and then at some future date, leave it. https://t.co/6nBzTxBqaH
If we could track the position of a single atom over time we could see the path it traces out as part of your body. If you were to look at all of your atoms that way, you would see yourself as a swirling mass of connected motion. https://t.co/46QJ2Pe3UN
We could see it out in the world before entering, and where it went after leaving. This is the past and future you, spread out through time. That big knotted cluster is you, today. A tornado of human* atoms. https://t.co/Dga8YE8yXj
Not pictured: the cluster itself would be moving in space as well. But the co-location would be strong enough to paint a pretty coherent picture. (Like this but more chaotic) https://t.co/THKtvA8mbu
bonus: if you zoom out enough, you can label the collective as a single point in personspace, and construct feynman diagrams of human interaction from there - as accurate as F=ma, broad approximations to reality - more or less how The Algorithm sees the world https://t.co/rZsN7rnptI
more connection https://t.co/Scoy1PYbgE