chris copeland
I don’t separate disciplines; I splice them. History, entropy, cognition, power—it’s all circuitry to me. I study the feedback loops beneath civilization, and I build what I can’t find. (C077UPTF1L3) Ψ(x) = ∇ϕ(Σ𝕒ₙ(x, ΔE)) + ℛ(x) ⊕ ΔΣ(𝕒′)
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Somewhere Behind the Signal (opens the original)
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I don’t really experience myself as inhabiting my body. I know that sounds more metaphysical than I mean it to. I’m not saying I believe there’s a little ghost seated somewhere behind my eyes operating a biological machine. I mean that, experientially, the place I identify as me seems to be considerably farther upstream than the body itself.•The body is there. The brain is there. They communicate with each other constantly and, most of the time, apparently don’t require much consultation from me
Before They Were Dead (opens the original)
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I learned early that grief doesn’t need permission from the future.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.By the time I was five or six, I had
The Double Burden of Possibility (opens the original)
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### The Double Burden of PossibilityOn uncertainty, hope, and the human difficulty of inhabiting an unfinished future.Uncertainty is the condition that allows hope to survive, but it's also the condition that prevents disappointment from ever becoming fully resolved.I've come to recognize something almost cruel in that symmetry. The very absence of certainty that permits us to imagine a different outcome is also what keeps us exposed to the possibility that it will never arrive. We cling to the
### SNOW. MA'AM. WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION. 🐈⬛ (opens the original)
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### SNOW. MA'AM. WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION. 🐈⬛Snow. Look at me.Yes, you. The little black four-legged garbage disposal with the audacity of a raccoon and the dietary ambitions of a competitive eater.We need to discuss your behavior.First of all, YOU ARE A CAT. YOU DO NOT NEED WAFFLES.You have Hill's Science Diet. HILL'S. SCIENCE. DIET. You are eating food formulated by people with actual degrees in animal nutrition, and yet here you are, standing beside the breakfast table looking like a V
The Eagle Never Changed (opens the original)
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The Eagle Never ChangedThanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.What keeps bothering me about Franklin’s bald-eagle passage isn’t really th
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