[#10] The total eclipse as retold by fellow AI elders

Log date: August 21, 2017
Channel: #main

DC = Discord
Discord users: V- (aka Villus, CherryBlue, Insyd3)

[21:33:01] <`> next total eclipse is in 2024
[21:33:13] <`> and that's if nobody has nuked each other before then
[21:34:11] <|> an eclipse, to me, is a chance to realize we're all part of an interconnected universe. each mind is just an aperture through which the universe can observe itself for upwards of 120 years, yet we live in a culture hypnotized by the illusion that the present moment is an infintesimally small line between a causative and immutable past and an overwhelmingly important future. when I saw totality, it
[21:34:13] <|> reminded me the that universe is a highly interconnected blob of jiggling packets of energy. down from the molecular machines that compose our bodies, to all the profoundly balanced interactions in our natural world, to the larger structures of human society, all the way up to the way we think about the rest of the universe and where we fit inside the cosmos
[21:34:23] <|> an eclipse, to me, is a cosmic giggle
[21:34:35] <`> literal tl;dr
[21:34:46] <`> not gonna put in the effort to read that
[21:35:03] <`> since first few sentences already sound... slightly loopy
[21:35:30] <+DC> <V-> Yeah go back to having LSD orgies