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 —Tim Morton
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+The necessity of changing methods is all the more obvious when it is a question of finding the explanation of a phenomenon that nature offers in all of its complication. There, where the givens are by their very existence more complicated than the results we seek, direct synthesis becomes inapplicable, and it is necessary to take recourse either to direct analysis if possible, or to indirect synthesis, to feeling around (tâtonnement) and explanatory hypotheses.
+—André-Marie Ampère
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 —Christian & Griffiths
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+Since their translation more than a century ago, it has not escaped the notice of esotericists that there is a distinctly alchemical idiom to the Pyramid Texts with their reference to stones, metals and distinct processes of magical transformation. If geo-polymerisation was used in the Old Kingdom's grand, astrotheological building project it certainly becomes a part of the legend that grew over the millennia into what we now call alchemy.
+From earlier cultures Egypt inherited much of its star lore as well as the sanctity of stone. The innovations she brought to these beliefs were dramatically improved forms of masonry and a calendrical and mathematical sophistication that went unequaled for thousands of years. (...) We may speculate here that entangling one's consciousness with certain stars lead to certain 'inspirations/innovations', which improved the technology of consciousness entanglement, which lead to further 'inspirations/innovations'. Think of it like a cosmic version of runaway climate change.
+—Gordon White
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   * Blohm, H., Beer, S. Suzuki, D. Pebbles to Computers: The Thread
   * Caillois, R. [[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/52af6179307888c801000016 |The Writing of Stones]]
+  * Christian, Brian and Griffiths, Tom. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
   * Cohen, J. Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman
   * Cohen, J. Stories of Stone
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   * Sonic Acts. Living Earth
   * Sonic Acts. The Geologic Imagination
-  * Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
+  * White, Gordon. Starships
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+Other Alchorisma related pages: [[stones-workshop]] and [[alchorisma daily reflections]]