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What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us.: Tim O'Reilly

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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The Circle Represents the Experience of an Individual Human

The circle represents the experience of an individual human of that infinite reality that we're all looking at. And so for example, a, the fact thaf these multiple circles indicates that each of us doesn't even experience the same thing. But it also could be that we have different visual locuityt anybody in the room is colour blind, ah, but there are people who are en it is aline, so you would see my shirt differently. So this whole idea that there's this big difference between the reality and the experience of it. Then you get into the labelling the abstraction. That's why we do it. You know, we we have these abstractions, which are these

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