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- The Key
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- The Archetypal Human
- An Update
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- Livin’ in the Past
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- The Three Pillars of Enabling
- The Trump Comedy
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 8: The Modern West as Cultural Holon
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 7: A Quadrant Analysis of Corona
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- The Archetypal Calculus Part 3: Organisms and Civilisations
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 2: The Levels of Being
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 1: Introduction
- Patrick White’s “The Vivisector”
- From Alma Mater to Edax Mater
- Taking a Break
- The Universal State of America: Book Now Available
- The Universal State of America Part 5: Once more on pseudomorphosis
- The Universal State of America Part 4: Trade Wars and Psychic Battles
Hi Simon, yes for sure – human beings are story-tellers, it’s what we do, all day, everyday…its how we make…
Alan – it is interesting to speculate whether we have so many words for stories because stories are unusually common…
Hi Simon, thanks for this weeks post. Some lovely points. I especially appreciated the ‘history of ideas’ perspective here -…
Here’s a fun synchronicity. Anthropic’s new LLM model is called “Claude Mythos”. I admit, “Claude Story” just doesn’t have the…
Stories about stories are the best stories 😛
Thanks for your reply, Simon – now i’m all the more intrigued as to where you are going 🙂 Looking…
Alan – Thanks a lot for those references. They are perfect examples of what I think the problem is. None…
Hi Simon, good stuff, i’m very much looking forward to where you go with this (and also your forthcoming Shakespeare…
Daniel – I mostly disagree, although it’s going to take a number of posts to make clear why. Of course,…
Stories are innate because that is how the ego works – it is fundamentally a story creation mechanism that is…
I agree. And I wouldn’t be surprised if we get another GFC when the bubble bursts.
There is a lot of talk going on about ethical AI or removing bias from AI. I think that one…
Secretface – once upon a time, Google also used to give different viewpoints. The iron law of Enshitification says that…
I think that you could possibly get multiple viewpoints from LLMs if you are good at asking the right questions,…
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Yes, there was a deliberate move in the Enlightenment to remove the story from history, which turns it into nothing…