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new sapphire cat is relatively hefty 16 micrograms, close to half the mass of an eyelash, & more than 100 trillion times the mass of cat states previously created with molecules. “We’ve reached a new regime where quantum mechanics apparently does work,”

sciencenews.org/article/sapphi

All of these benefits over traditional computing suggest that hyperdimensional computing is well suited for a new generation of extremely sturdy, low-power hardware. It’s also compatible with “in-memory computing systems,”

quantamagazine.org/a-new-appro

complex structures like the vertebrate eye can evolve, not only by modifying existing genetic material but also by acquiring and integrating foreign genes

science.org/content/article/an

the embodied -
moral accounting -
that enables us -
to know ourselves -
in the currency -
of narratives -
accounting the stories -
we shape -
for ourselves -
about having -
getting - using -
money -

we all begin -
morphologically -
the same -
we are born as -
ourselves-embodied -
come to know -
who we are -
socially -
in-relation to others -
cause that is -
how we know -
we are human -
as awareness wakens -
an awakening to -
relation-ings -
of experiencing -

If selection preserves genetic variants - then adaptation occurs by accumulation of genetic variations that stabilize a trait after its first appearance. - often it's the trait that comes first; genes that cement it follow, sometimes generations later

nature.com/articles/514161a

facial -
re-cognition -
is a matter -
of finding a -
strange attractor -
of relationships -
entangling -
facial variables -

A poem is a network of interconnected images, feelings & apprehensions - achieves a kind of rational completeness in its density, diversity and harmony
To think a lot but all at once, we have to think associatively, self-referentially, vividly, temporally

aeon.co/essays/why-poetry-is-a

news -
media needs to -
generate narrative -
illuminating complex -
situations and relationship -
lineages of cause-effects -

so the challenge -
how many narratives -
can the same situations -
generate -
news-AI -
narrating generators -

to sense -
is to be -
stimulated -
to be stimulated -
is to know -
a-tension -
of change -
and afford-dancing -
fore survival -

there are two systems in the primary motor cortex: one for motor commands and another for muscle [ ] synergies that enable coordinated movement.

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

what do i know -
that would make me -
different? -
how can i be -
happily different? -
to be a better -
parent -
friend -
supporter -
person -
and have -
creative-play in my living it -

the crisis -
having to move -
a population -
to con-version -
for what's better -
with reason -
intelligible -
in a sea of -
news where -
honesty is a needle -

is it only me that finds it disturbing - the number of bush-obama-era being rehabilitated on @MSNBC - the same ones that paved the road with flowers for

listening -
to back-story -
narrating -
pondering -
how that attracts -
favoring -
of one over other -
in sporting -
our lives -

glimpsing -
moments of -
when -
impulses flow -
without resistance -
like what happens -
when we fall -
asleep -
a threshold arises -
so we can dream -
enactions -
and sleep
in peace -
and it's -
the sleeper who -
glimpses -

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