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dreamed of cleaning up from christmas, replacing 5gal water bottles, rethreading their piping, crying for my mother, who was learning at that moment that my dad was going to enter a steel drum for a procedure

dreamed of going over an art review at a table, the person to my right kept showing me a painting of a red dragon and asking me how I felt seeing myself. in context it seemed like they were meaning to say that it was a painting I had made, confusing me and the rest of the table, it clearly wasn't my work, was signed by someone else. I said something like, "look the red dragon is an important symbol in western asia, my affinity for it doesn't mean they're all mine". when I pointed out the signature, black on yellow, their eyes cleared up and they understood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhulong_(mythology)

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observation: more distinctions are recorded and enforced as being recorded than are useful

a data paradigm that prevents this would need to be not just read-only but lookup-only - maybe even search-only

which, I note, rhymes exactly with the measurement problem

this is already the physics we live in, I think

a mind seems to be (a) a flattening of two distinct points into one, and (b) the loop required to create enough specific uncertainty to make up for the information loss in that collapse

the digital universe flattens "1" and "1" into the same "1", and we've produced a mind that can run a loop that creates enough specific uncertainty to make up for the information loss in that collapse - i.e. a mind that can survive strict type theory

I think, now, we've gotta devise a... hm let's go with "magic system", we've gotta devise a magic system that works for all the minds that mind knows about, including its own

this is the foam project, I think - foam for the physics of it, Counter for the practice of it