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AI is an active project removing entire epistemologies, entire philosophies, entire ontologies

— Nkhensani Mkhari

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When I write, I’m casting ideas into the world, connecting my family history and broader South African history to pre-colonial philosophies.

There's an essence where we should draw from instead of those external conditions that have been imposed on us.

What makes human beings special is that as creatures we have imagination. My question is how we do imagine new epistemologies and modes of reality in the world?

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John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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