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.......~-*             #...--------...#             *-~.......
........~-       ####.-- omega point --.####        -~........
.........~             #...--------...#             ~.........
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.......... can  you feel it?  behind things, inside ..........
..........      things, something is happening.     ..........
..........    something between nothing and the     ..........
..........           collapse of reality.           ..........
.........~                                          ~.........
........~- the objects  themselves do  not  change. -~........
.......~-* the  physicality of  a person stays  the *-~.......
......~-*$                  same.                   $*-~......
.....~-*$£                                          £$*-~.....
....~-*$£@ but   items  have  relations  with   one @£$*-~....
...~-*$£@£ another,  and here  is  the  revolution. £@£$*-~...
..~-*$£@£#     the relationships congregate, the    #£@£$*-~..
.~-*$£@£## networks become  meshes, and they spread ##£@£$*-~.
..~-*$£@£# out like  heat  nets  over  kale  farms. #£@£$*-~..
...~-*$£@£                                          £@£$*-~...
....~-*$£@ things  become  part  of  bigger things. @£$*-~....
.....~-*$£ people become  part  of  bigger  actors. £$*-~.....
......~-*$ often  too big to  be seen - but perhaps $*-~......
.......~-*                  felt...                 *-~.......
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.........~ lets walk backwards trough  the  sludge! ~.........
.......... what's an animal? a collective  of cells ..........
..........        with a single mind (kinda)        ..........
.......... what's  a cell?  actually in  this sense ..........
.......... it's  a collective  of cells  and lesser ..........
..........   molecular machines ("proteins" et al)  ..........
.........~            and other fragments           ~.........
........~-                                          -~........
.......~-* what's  a  molecule?  just  a  bunch  of *-~.......
......~-*$ atoms bound  (fey concept) together by a $*-~......
.....~-*$£          set of ineffable rules          £$*-~.....
....~-*$£@ what's  an  atom?  (things  are  getting @£$*-~....
...~-*$£@£ alien  at  this  point)  well  basically £@£$*-~...
..~-*$£@£#               it's an "orb"              #£@£$*-~..
.~-*$£@£##                                          ##£@£$*-~.
..~-*$£@£#                 #.---.#                  #£@£$*-~..
...~-*$£@£                 ###.###                  £@£$*-~...
....~-*$£@                  #.---.#                 @£$*-~....
.....~-*$£                                          £$*-~.....
......~-*$ we're gonna lose ourselves  in it. maybe $*-~......
.......~-* we   have   been    for    some   while. *-~.......
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