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Report: vernor vinge's zones of thought temporal, or: an ontology of temperature … or: the laws of nature are not isotropic in time: what are we trying to say? When the world was hotter, chaos blushed: imagine, Carver's heroes drinking themselves to death because they were trying to drink liquid nitrogen: subzero suburbia: america is an ontological air conditioner: he who has ears to hear and all that... : it's the unpredictable that is invigorating: the unpredictable, not necessarily mystery, which is the root function of wonder: anyways, what we're saying is that when the world was hotter, magic was possible: imagine jurassic shamans, cenozoic biomancers: life was so rich, so much was happening all at once, that the laws of nature just couldn't keep up: in Vinge's galactic center, even thinking is a chore, but out and out, nature begins to relax: this illusion you're high on, that because the negentropic vortex of modern life is so fucking boring nothing in the past could have ever surprised you, what a joke... we laugh and laugh at anglo borgs like Graham claiming Zhuangzi never knew Taoism, because he can't reconcile spirit-kings with the philosophical richness of his texts: keep buzzing: in your hives and then in your graves: physics is elastic, or at least the tellurium was: