another lovely cohering

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“There’s no perfect beginning.” “Everything’s a preface.”

Now, 18 years later, in light of fortunately many entralled times of a creative life,
I’m being as flouishive as ever (beyond tragedy) with humility toward the gods.

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as if It Is, to be known

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I'm glad to see this article, “NASA Scientist: 'We May Have Missed Signals from Aliens Capable of Interstellar Travel,’”especially since it's sponsored by S.E.T.I.
I wrote to Seth Shostak (lead astronomer for SETI) recently that he shouldn't be so dismissive of unexplained Unidentified Aerial Phenomena ("UFO"s), as he has been. He didn't reply. I look forward to reading the Ames/SETI discussion that is referenced.

If there are vast differences in the technologies of The Other and ourselves, there would be no discernible relationship between “intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us.” What finds us would recognize that It isn’t to be found yet.

Galactic Silence as Intended

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I want to link to all such reveries from one spot.

• 2006: "astrobiological society”
• 2013: "contact competence with Absolute Others"
• 2016: “beings there?”
• 2017: Days go by…
• 2022: memo to unresponsive gods

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a blog, whatever...

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“Mind evolving” means whatever you choose. I choose to keep the meaning open.
This blog title (attached to a URL created over 12 years ago) has no given meaning, other than the ordinariness of “mind” (the quote marks are important) and the nebulousness of “evolving.” So, I have a blog with that title, whatever it’s made
to mean.

2004 — June, 2017

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This blog (“me” hereafter) began in mid-October, 2004, was very active for about five years, trailed off in frequency of postings, stopped in 2010, then got a couple of updates in 2014.

aspiring to hyperhumanity is integralfor our nature

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Today, it's reported that researchers have identified a new batch of genes that slow the aging process. This may not seem to be news, but it's a reminder that the aspiration for immortality is becoming Big Science.

By the way, recalling that Darwin wrote "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke" (Notebook M, 1838; quoted in Baboon Metaphysics), today's research is about genes shared by worms and humans.

More primordially still, this week's Science presents the complete genome of a species of algae that specifies eukaryotic functions shared by plants and animals. This kind of research into biomechanics has importance for aspirations to design artificial life, as well as for astrobiological venturing. Given the increasing liklihood that life begins easily and easily evolves to higher forms—relatively quickly—doing bioglyphics outstrips metaphysical pretense (that history of conceptualist mythics) scientifically, as real bio-ontology or biontology.

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beach party and clam bake news

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A report in today's Nature indicates that 164,000 years ago (far earlier than scientists had supposed), people on a coastal cliff overlooking the Indian Ocean in far-southern Africa cooked shellfish and used make-up. "Shellfish were among the last additions to the human diet before the debut of domesticated plants and animals, [the lead researcher] said. Early hunter-gatherer relatives of modern humans for millions of years dined on only land plants and animals, the scientists said."

For millions of years! That's what's so amazing (old news anewly surprising to re-realize). For millions of years, our species didn't figure much out. Homo had been around for millions of years—millions and millions of years—then whomp!—relatively suddenly—we mind-bogglingly accelerate to become a planetary communications organon self-formatively accelerating, lonely hearts of the cosmos.

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