Subconscious | Gordon Brander | Substack

A provocation from Dawkins: ideas are alive! The gene, the DNA molecule, happens to be the replicating entity that prevails on our own planet. There may be others. If there are, provided certain other conditions are met, they will almost inevitably tend to become the basis for an…

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Aug 19

Many structured ways of knowing seem to roughly fall into one of several spatial structures: lists, trees, grids, and networks.

Aug 9

A thought experiment! Let's reimagine the web with r-selected thinking.

Jul 31

I’ve just started reading Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate. The opening chapters are great, narrating Paul Baran’s efforts at RAND to design a…

Jul 23

So there’s this idea from evolutionary ecology called r/K selection theory. The gist is that many species seem to converge toward one of two extreme…

Jul 18

Is acceptably non-dystopian digital identity even possible?

Jul 11

...but decentralization is right behind it.

Jun 27

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