thought of the day: octopus

too many fingers in too many pies. a vulgar manager of data.

the planet is evolving as a system because humans serve as a log of non-physical past events. until further genetic change can occur (because selection has slowed dramatically right now), human evolution is occurring in the areas of "what has happened" and "what is now known". does this mean that it's not nearly as random anymore? maybe not "random" so much as "unknowable" -- wouldn't that depend on how well we can predict future discoveries? knowing what we know should give us very good guesses about the next most rapidly expanding field of knowledge. technology, ethics and government, economy, social and cultural systems... how many ways are we evolving?

all of the systems outside ourselves -- are they also part of what "human" is?

they sleep inside the shelves. like bachelor hotels in japan.