The Fifth Science

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A good way to start thinking about this world is that of a universe where anything can be conscious. It is just needs to have the right type of complexity. With a little bit of gentle influence from myself, he took to work on a new metaphysic, Mentalic Ontology. With the right ears even a lesser creature can hear the song. It is sung constantly, from the heart of each atom and star. They began rendezvousing in that disgusting traditional way, eating breakfast off of each other, spending long mornings in bed, pretending they were the first humans to ever discover sex.

A good way to start thinking about this world where anything can be conscious. It is just the right type of complexity. Anyway coming to the book itself, Exurb1a manages to create a most fabulous world. There are some true gems in there, The mayfly lives for about 24 hours. From the perspective of the universe, perhaps the human race is on a similar fleeting timescale. It took a long time to get to this point. There have been enormous sacrifices. We're all sat around being the product of billions of years of chance and millions of years of biological evolution. But today, this moment, now, we're here. We can wander around and do stuff and make stuff and have a jolly old time if we like. We're alive and we're looking damn fine. We have enormous, self-aware brains. We inhabit very clever fleshy suits designed by the universe herself. We've got the capability for greatness. We've got the capacity to enjoy a million unique stimuli. We've arrived at the party. We exist. And we can take walks if we want. So please go take a walk; I hope it's a nice one. And let’s not waste our day out in the cosmos. Inaction is the primary refuge of those who prefer their own constructed realities to the beautiful chaos of the real worldThroughout the book I spotted several stories that I wanted to mention here as my favourite but there are now quite a lot of them. The Girl and the Pit is wonderful and Be Awake, Be Good full of suspension. The Caretaker is psychologically interesting with a neat plot twist. It is worth reading.You get to think about the forking of minds, about greed and fear. This is the kind of stuff that feeds your creativity. Yes there are individual lives, yes there are individual syndicates and empires, but the whole process ultimately builds to the same climax in all iterations. That is, the consolidation of intelligence, the gathering of the wool of perfect wisdom, and the death of want. It's fun to think that one day our great, great grandchildren may get that much closer to understanding what the hell creation is doing here in the first place, and glimpsing the underlying structure and nature of matter itself. Hopefully they won't live with the same existential horrors we all quietly face today in our own lives. A book of 12 short stories, all set in the same universe. Or maybe in the same galaxy. Where the human empire is long past its glory days and even the last humans are slowly going out.

I love the videos this guy makes. Super inspiring, great stories, and other cool stuff that are hard to describe with a few words. The guy is unique. There is also a ton of controversy around him. Making him a prime case study for why it's ok to love the art and seperate it from the artist. But that is a topic worth really delving into.We're all in the same strange boat, grappling with the same strange condition. But it isn't quite so scary if we all do it together. So let's do it together.” All seeds contain the tree they will become. In that seed is the limit of its growth. No amount of water or nurture or love can grow a tree taller than the seed has allowed. If it is pushed to grow taller or wider than that, then it will die slowly. It will die of itself. Most things in the universe fade this way. If a tree is to survive then it must make itself content with its height and hide. It must hide its pride and limit its curiosity, lest it birth the end of everything

Be Awake, Be Good - This had two remarkable ideas I would like to highlight, one was about narrative collapse that I feel is surely upcoming in a form in our world as we lose trust in authority and institutions. With deepfakes and plausible explanations for any hypothesis. We can be forced to live without belief in anything concrete. In simple words, it is collection of short sci-fi stories that are easy to read and enjoyable. Each story, although different, follows an underlying narrative and philosophy unique to Ex. I love Exurb1a's YouTube channel and think his humour is one of the best I've witnessed in my life. Therefore I enjoyed his style of writing. However his unique style from his YouTube videos sometimes shone through too much, in the way he phrases things a bit unnatural to literature.And the Leaves All Sing of God - one of my fav's. A must read. The idea of knowledge that is so incompatible with consciousness that if forcefully aquired will cause you to commit suicide is fascinating. The final idea is of unity, that we are all part of single natural process, that nothing is really independent and that Song that we all sing with our essence is God. One of my favorites! The idea of knowledge that is so incompatible with consciousness that if forcefully acquired will cause you to commit suicide is fascinating. The book closes with the idea of unity, that we are all part of a single natural process, that nothing is really independent and that the Song that we all sing with our essence is God. And during a storm, in the forest, on the right night, it is no secret that the leaves all sing of God.”