Thanks. Maybe a bit cryptic. Maybe add a couple dots to indicate stuff is being added and removed?

And is there any way to underline the fact that it’s MY bowl that’s being taken from and added to? Is it necessary? I dunno. Mulling required.

Underlining my point for the tragically obtuse.

The troll offers bullshit.

Science defeats bullshit by requiring a strong reference to observation etc.

In polite, sane company this is a non-issue.

But in public conversation, ya, it’s an issue. Trolls happen. In fact I would call trolls the greatest enemy of sane public conversation.

An AI with a billion samples to draw from might deliver the collective unconsciousness visual you’re looking for.

We have 2 worlds.

The primary world is made of sensations : sight, sound, thought, smell, emotion, etc.

The secondary world is made of concepts : Stories, models, language, etc.

That secondary world. Ya. Words, conversation, books, social media. That affects it. Creates it.

So glamour is a dream. And a grammar is, what, a special kind of dream? A useful, linguistically relevant dream. Where we assert/conceptualize connections between symbols and meanings.

And a grimoire, that’s a whole chunk of the grammarly hallucinogen.

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it was 90% hallucination? A race of dreamers dreaming of conversation, remotely tickling each other’s dreams.

Irl communication would provide a thousand cues for augmenting understanding than a mere textstream wouldn’t. So that’s something to consider.

My hoopijoo relatively.

Guessing.

I have had a similar thought. That the words are just a ritual for getting us into the same psychic space and the actual communication occurs via telepathy.

How does it overcome the threat of achieving merely a logically consistent fantasy? (A chinese room situation)

I can lay ten-inch hexagonal porcelain tile while freefalling, actually. But I need to use a premixed adhesive.

Sling staff.

Lock picking.

Skydiving.

Laying ceramic tile.

Black hole of need?

How about just different shapes of people, with differing tastes. Some obsess over money. Others over art.

The worm criticizes the hawk for crawling improperly.

I can tell this means a lot to you. I suppose it’s a matter of taste.

It’s something I haven’t delved into enough to arrive at a definitive conclusion, actually. The subject delivers little thrill for me.

No, modern sci-fi evolved over time like all the other complex stuff tends to.

Modern sci-fi is created by every fellow with a strange idea. Who thinks maybe I could get my idea across better if I framed it as a narrative and put it in scientific terms. because science is such a lovely language for talking about strange ideas.

Greg Egan, Iain Banks and Sam Hughes are good stuff, if you haven’t.

Also, there’s this amazing new genre, “LitRpg”. Basically fantasy where an rpg type videogame became real.

Most of it is the usual dreck but some of it goes hard sf, delving into the existential stuff.

A couple of the rationalists have even taken a swing.

Try

Mother of Learning

Death after death

Friendship is optimal

So ya, real development is still alive.