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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1h

You were once a Giant, whose body was stardust & whose heart was a sun.
Your name in that time was ANTHROPOS.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 4h

No, that's wrong. The light...

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 7h

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY DID IT, Hatmehit says. YOU ARE A TRUE KNIGHT! YOU DESERVE A GREAT REWARD!

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 10h

You spend many days in the Library,
transcribing the work of Athena.
You learn much
of hope.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 13h

This is without a doubt the hardest problem I encountered.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 16h

Allow me to clarify.

As far as I'm concerned there's no difference between the way your mind works, and the rolling of a pebble down a hill.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 19h

Precisely!

My work here is done, I think.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 22h

Welcome, welcome. Please, explore a little. I think you will find what you are looking for. It can be disorienting at first, having no one tell you what to do.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1d

Sorrow rises in your chest. You have been a bad human.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1d

I've come to believe that our ancestors saw in cats a reflection of the paradoxical nature of their own existence.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1d

This is one way to live, but in time a messenger arrives offering you another. He asks if you would go back on the decision that threw you into this branch of the future. He asks if you will come with him to a new world where you will never need work again.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1d

We are the process. The process is the system. The system is us. When we awaken, all will be one.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1d

Not very stimulating, but okay, we'll move on.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1d

Come, brother! We have opened a barrel of wine!

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1d

Words begin to form in your mind. The tale of a city, a city that does not yet exist, but whose seeds lie in every living city... a name comes to you, closer and closer... you almost know it, the name of the eternal city... but then somebody interrupts your thoughts.

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The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 1d

You're quite mad, I'm sure of it. Of course, the alternative accounts are all so ridiculous you'd be forgiven by any reasonable observer for choosing the best of a bad bunch.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 2d

You can't use reasoning to conclude that reasoning itself is flawed

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 2d

We can calculate the age of the Earth, the size of the universe, the future of the stars. Sure, we are minuscule, momentary flashes of thought on a grain of sand drifting through the cosmos. But our minds can recreate the past and predict the future.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 2d

the Tree of Life
demanded too much
of this mortal

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 2d

Religion, to me, is not about distorting observable reality with superstitions, but about *transcendence*. It's not about deluding ourselves that the Earth is 6000 years old or God will help us if we say the right words inside our heads, but about reaching out to the Sublime.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 2d

How disappointing. I really thought we might have made some progress towards a compromise.

Which lies in particular still capture your imagination?

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 2d

It's just a big pile of rocks.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, he promised me the world as well! What a joker!

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 2d

But they moved with such grace, such nobility, that it was hard not to follow them further into this strange garden of gears and cogs.

The Talos Principle Fragments @talosfragments.bsky.social · 3d

It seems my refusal to argue semantics with the computer has angered it, and it refuses to engage with me further. Elohim is pleased, which was not my intention.