Escaping the misapprehension of linear Time,
See, rather, Being unfolding;
All, equally, Cause, Effect, and Agency;
The Stateness of each instant the template for the Stateness of the next instant,
the particulars of subsequent instants permuted
in accordance with the Innate Compellingness of the Intrinsic,
Each object and energy bequeathing
its Currentness to its Subsequentness;
The hypergaseous electrochemicality Life ever permuting
to fill to the utmost its Container, Necessary Condition;
Nature permuting Life by solving,
through Evolution's inclusion of all possible Information,
Being's ever-revised Equation
by itself being both Being's ever-revised Equation
and its unimprovable, all-encompassing Answer;
Mortal Individual, Life's strategy for surviving
the viscissitudes of the Particular;
Progeny, downstream from progenitor;
Female, gateway to Futurity, downstream from male,
Past socketing into Future;
Intelligence, creaturehood's Navigator, achieving
only limited, local, single-point solutions of Being's Equation
through the strategic exclusion
of Information;
Mind, instantiation in physical brain of Local Solution as creaturehood Compelledness To Action.
We have evolved not
to perceive World As It Is
but rather to perceive World
only to the extent that our Creaturehood needs require that we perceive it.
Only through the invention and promulgation of synthetic Need
do our innate perceptive abilities become insufficient
to the point of seeming to require prosthesis.
Escaping the misapprehension of linear time is choosing to step out
of a cage of our own making; Einstein's theories of relativity
expanding and strengthening rather than diminishing and weakening that self-captivity
for we value the insights they drive most as powering our collective drift
toward the further invention and promulgation of synthetic Need—
Toward the accelerating elaboration
Of elective self-cagedness.
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