the mandate of virtualization

 

 

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The summer night glowed; 
in the field, fireflies were glinting. 

And for those who understood such things, 
the stars were sending messages.


—Louise Glück
midsummer
poems 1962-2012

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We share our reality with a massive dichotomy of other life forms who through their own unique sensory processes have a completely different interpretation of reality than humans. 

What is important is that all life uses sensory inputs and information processing to survive. It is this mechanic of life that paints the experience of reality and each life form virtualizes reality in the form of an interface to survive. In an information driven experiential reality system the mandate of virtualization cannot be ignored as it is why we succeed in our ability to survive and exist.


—Rumi

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These forms we seem to be are cups floating in an ocean of living consciousness. They fill and sink without leaving an arc of bubbles or any good-bye spray. 

What we are is that ocean, too near to see, though we swim in it and drink it in. 

Don't be a cup with a dry rim, or someone who rides all night and never knows the horse beneath his thighs, the surging that carries him along.


—Rumi
cup and ocean
Mathnawi 1, 1109-16
Coleman Barks version

  

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