155 - Phantom Realities (Soul or Simulation?)

Kris and I begin this conversation by talking about the simulation of photography, the predictive nature of it, and move into a talk about appreciation for sentence- or paragraph-level writing, and how to perhaps sell that love to lure readers in. We talk: Seattle masks, Eternal Jing, the connection between Zanesville and Altered Carbon, double binds, Bateson’s Pyramid, melody smother, goodbye courage, how to have a more decisive mind, the fear of saying something bold, the vampire/zombie hybrid, totemic dreams, the strangely predictive nature of photography, Project Origin, cybernetics, creating simulations of the self, tribal mindsets toward photography, prepositional distance, the ego looking for something to protect, asemic writing, things are built to see what they become, rebellion against the outline, the enjoyment of language, LitRPG, the comfort with the shen, how to write if you don’t want to be a cookie-cutter formulist, cryptotransgression, thinking like an animal, taking environment into account when discussing mental illness, is “reverse engineering tautological?”, the hands of many strange angels, the hunter-killer search for knowledge, a whole fish inside him, cleaning house, and a dream car losing traction with the road.