May 12, 2011
Is this right?
Self, room, house, neighborhood, city, county, state, region, country, continent, hemisphere, planet, solar system, galaxy, local group, super cluster, observable universe, universe.
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Self, room, house, neighborhood, city, county, state, region, country, continent, hemisphere, planet, solar system, galaxy, local group, super cluster, observable universe, universe.
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This got started on Twitter. Thanks Amy, Raynor, Patrick, Lex, Mike.
postal code?
Yeah, though where in there can be tricky. Also, I thought of clothes after self, and whatever, after universe.
Cell, self . . . ? Et cetera?
Yeah, taking it the other direction, extending it back — organs, cells, dna, atoms.
Fantastic Voyage.
I confess. I like the idea that I am a kind of colony comprised of human cells and bacteria and fungi and viruses and I-don’t-know-what-else.
It makes me feel important.
And cosmopolitan.
My favorite idea lately has to do with all the autonomous systems we have running in the background below the awareness of our conscious selves.
The hum of the factory, as it were.
I like that.
I would, though.
Where’s the time domain?
What is and was and will be is only a subset of what is and was and will be possible. I mean this in a technical way for which my language is probably insufficiently precise, but the way I said it feels better in the context.
I thought they were all the same thing?