Posts on writing, consciousness and altered states Sumerian clay tablet inscribed with the text of the poem Inanna and Ebih - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago "Literature" more generally The sky pool The quote on Aldous Huxley at the end. this one links it to monotropism in hindsight Writing good out of me worlds better than the old fool's selfie Julia Kristeva, Robert Graves & Fyodor Dostoevsky Bookending worlds - Solzhenitsyn Religion, tanks, spirituality & yoga mats.Robert Ardrey My writing Books and their writing Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992: London: Chatto & Windus) IN these I discover that I have been doing moral philosophy if timelessly avant la lettre.From selfing in worlding to sovereignty: me worlding Iris Murdoch's Wittgenstein Iris Murdoch and the good of it Noting Iris Murdoch quoting Wittgenstein and friends Getting Ursula le Guin and Iris Murdoch to chat via LLM chatbots And poetsandnovelistsWerner's Cullen's Keats' The writer as an emperor The first known author was a nepo-babyritual embeddings, festive rants Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyClans of the idios kosmos Philip K. DickFrom Chapter X of Middlemarch by George Eliot and also Key to All Middleworlds Droga [Świat] — Czesław Miłosz rendering the PolishArt is his religion. Worlding is their worlding. James Joyce's Portrait of the artist as a young man And LLM/AI/Stochastic parrotsMe third go at a zero shot, by analogy metaphor carried me here Analogy shots metaphor me a ratio just like you asking an LLM about pronouns and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (march 2023) Consciousnessunconscious but doing languaging “Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia.”