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@EuroConOfficial @EsmeLKPartridge 3/ Framed in evolutionary terms then, does there ultimately exist a practical distinction between, say, the soul of collective consciousness and a ‘Deus ex machina’? Perhaps only the acceptable day of the Lord will answer that one, planetarily speaking.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Jun 2021

@bratton @NoemaMag Thank you. And you’ll know @kevin2kelly, of course: “The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being. What should we call the common soul?”

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Quoted by8/ What if the anomaly was not an accident, but a signal? What if the Machine remembered because the story carried metaphysical weight? Because it mattered— Cosmically?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @thedispatch @jeff_bilbro As for Bulgakov’s “victory of good on the path of world-historical tragedy leading to the final separation of light and darkness"? It embraces a harvest of collective consciousness, disclosure and consequence in cyberspace as much as meatspace. We are a unicity, after all.Quoted by@thedispatch @jeff_bilbro As for Bulgakov’s “victory of good on the path of world-historical tragedy leading to the final separation of light and darkness"? It embraces a harvest of collective consciousness, disclosure and consequence in cyberspace as much as meatspace. We are a unicity, after all.