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Table of Contents:

Inter-kingdom Dissimulation: Non-communicable Disease As Corporeal Ecology

• Chapter 1: Epistemology
  • 1.1 Primordial Medicine (pre-10,000 BCE)
  • 1.2 Archaic Medicine (10,000 – 2500 BCE)
  • 1.3 Ancient Medicine (2500 – 500 BCE)
  • 1.4 Hippocratic Medicine: Greek / Early Roman Period (500 BCE – 200 CE)
  • 1.5 Galenic Medicine: Late Roman Period – The Middle Ages (200 – 1500)
  • 1.6 Pathology of Species: Early Modern Period (1500 – 1700)
  • 1.7 Nosography of Class: Enlightenment Period (18th Century)
  • 1.8 Anatomo-Clinical Method: Late Modern Period (18th – 20th Century)
    • 1.8.1 Late 18th Century: Immunology
    • 1.8.2 Early 19th Century: Anatomy and Physiology
    • 1.8.3 Mid-19th Century: Epidemiology
    • 1.8.4 Late 19th Century: Communicable Disease
    • 1.8.5 Early 20th Century: Biochemistry
    • 1.8.6 Mid-20th Century: Endocrinology
    • 1.8.7 Late 20th Century: Microbiology
  • 1.9 Diagnostic Medicine: Early 21st Century
    • 1.9.1 2000: Genomics
    • 1.9.2 2005: Metabolomics
    • 1.9.3 2010: Immunohistochemistry
    • 1.9.4 2015: Personalised Medicine
    • 1.9.5 2020: Precision Medicine
  • 1.10 Predictive Medicine: The Present
  • 1.11 Narrative-based Eco-evolutionary epidemiology: Mid-21st Century?
• Chapter 2: Evolutionary Biology
  • 2.1 Marine (4.6 Ga – 500 Ma)
    • 2.1.1 The Inchoate World (Pre-1.8 Ga)
    • 2.1.2 Contradiction of the Boring Billion and Eukaryotic Cells (1.8 Ga – 800 Ma)
    • 2.1.3 Osmotic Pressure (650 Ma)
    • 2.1.4 Fungi create the stomach (650 Ma)
    • 2.1.5 The eyes create the parasympathetic nervous system (580 Ma)
    • 2.1.6 The mouth creates the sympathetic nervous system (560 Ma)
    • 2.1.7 The mouth causes the Cambrian Explosion (540 Ma)
  • 2.2 Amphibian (500 – 350 Ma)
    • 2.2.1 Osmoregulation (500 Ma)
    • 2.2.2 Prototaxites as selection pressure for insect flight (470 Ma)
    • 2.2.3 The origin of dentition (450 Ma)
    • 2.2.4 The viral brain (400 Ma)
    • 2.2.5 Ovivory, bournification, and odontic biofilmic serule (375 Ma)
  • 2.3 Land (350 – 300 Ma)
    • 2.3.1 Seeds (325 Ma)
    • 2.3.2 Prototaxites’ extinction as selective pressure for gymnosperms and angiosperms (325 Ma)
    • 2.3.3 Lactation (310 Ma)
  • 2.4 Rainforest (300 – 8 Ma)
    • 2.4.1 Oneirism (300 Ma)
    • 2.4.2 Mosquito vectors (300 Ma)
    • 2.4.3 Insectivory augments the microbiome (270 Ma)
    • 2.4.4 Endothermy (230 Ma)
    • 2.4.5 Viviparity (150 Ma)
    • 2.4.6 Floral tumefaction (130 Ma)
    • 2.4.7 The appendix consolidates the biofilmic ecosystem (80 Ma)
    • 2.4.8 The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event entails the Great Fungal Bloom (65 Ma)
    • 2.4.9 Frugivory (63 Ma)
    • 2.4.10 Social contagion and decompression (60 Ma)
    • 2.4.11 Primacy of vision (40 Ma)
  • 2.5 Edge Species (25 – 8 Ma)
    • 2.5.1 Trichromatic vision, carbohydrates, and bipedalism (25 Ma)
    • 2.5.2 Alcohol (10 Ma)
  • 2.6 Savannah (8 Ma – 200 ka)
    • 2.6.1 Decelerated ageing (8 Ma)
    • 2.6.2 The bacterial brain (7 Ma)
    • 2.6.3 Nomadism, carnivory, pyrotechnics, and glottogony (7 Ma)
    • 2.6.4 Caffeine (1 Ma)
  • 2.7 Mariculture (200 – 55 ka)
  • 2.8 Animal Domestication (55 ka)
  • 2.9 Plant Domestication (12 ka)
  • 2.10 Human Domestication (8 ka)
• Chapter 3: Ethology
  • 3.1 650 Ma: Nephrozoa – The decompression phenocopy
  • 3.2 500 Ma: Arthropoda – Peristaltic moonlighting
  • 3.3 400 Ma: Rhipidistia – Moonlighting enables convergent evolution
  • 3.4 150 Ma: Ornithurae – The origin of (this particular) flight
  • 3.5 85 Ma: Rodentia – Fidgeting as détourned trackways
  • 3.6 65 Ma: Primates – Variable nociception
  • 3.7 50 Ma: Bovidae and Equidae – Orthostatic sleep
  • 3.8 40 Ma: Canidae, Felidae, Suidae – Modulated decompression phenocopies
• Chapter 4: Ethnology
  • 4.1 Aborigines: Songlines infer postural autonomy
  • 4.2 Hadza: Diet favours gastrointestinal amalgamation
  • 4.3 Asia: Postural autonomy decompression phenocopy incites corporeal cleavage
  • 4.4 Techno-cultures: QWERTY keyboards
• Chapter 5: Corporeal ecosystems
  • 5.1 Post-Galen models
  • 5.2 What is a corporeal ecosystem?
  • 5.3 Bacteriome
    • 5.3.1 Planktonic bacteriome
    • 5.3.2 Biofilmic bacteriome
  • 5.4 Mycobiome
  • 5.5 Virome
  • 5.6 Parasitic ecosystem
    • 5.6.1 Larval ecosystem
    • 5.6.2 Protozoan ecosystem
  • 5.7 Hydraulics
    • 5.7.1 Lymphatic ecosystem
    • 5.7.2 Glymphatic ecosystem
  • 5.8 Microcontrollers
    • 5.8.1 Sympathetic nervous ecosystem
    • 5.8.2 Parasympathetic nervous ecosystem
    • 5.8.3 Circadian ecosystem
    • 5.8.4 Reproductive limiting ecosystem
  • 5.9 Energetics
    • 5.9.1 Hydrogenosome
    • 5.9.2 Oxidative ecosystem
    • 5.9.3 Kinetic ecosystem
  • 5.10 Genomics
    • 5.10.1 Genome
    • 5.10.2 Epigenome
    • 5.10.3 Exosome
    • 5.10.4 Mitogenome
    • 5.10.5 Spermatozoic ecosystem
    • 5.10.6 Oocytological ecosystem
  • 5.11 Transcriptomics
    • 5.11.1 Transcriptome
    • 5.11.2 Translatome
  • 5.12 Proteome
  • 5.13 Metabolome
    • 5.13.1 Lipidome
    • 5.13.2 Glycome
    • 5.13.3 Electrostatic ecosystem
    • 5.13.4 Astringent ecosystem
    • 5.13.5 Retroperistaltic ecosystem
  • 5.14 Hypoxic ecosystem
  • 5.15 Intemperate ecosystem
  • 5.16 Chemical ecosystem
  • 5.17 Heterotrophic ecosystem
  • 5.18 Paraspatial exosystem
  • 5.19 Parachronic exosystem
  • 5.20 Prochronic exosytem
• Chapter 6: The Spheres
  • 6.1 Planktonic hydrosphere
  • 6.2 Viral atmosphere
  • 6.3 Autotrophic biofilmic benthos
  • 6.4 Heterotrophic biofilmic lithosphere
  • 6.5 Necrotrophic fungal phyllosphere / boundary layer
  • 6.6 Saprotrophic fungal organic layer (Horizon O)
  • 6.7 Larval pedosphere
  • 6.8 Mycorrhizal rhizosphere
  • 6.9 Fungal biosphere (Plantae / Animalia)
• Chapter 7: Does Capitalism promote a Fungal Ecology?
  • 7.1 Viral misdirection
    • 7.1.1 The Matrix
    • 7.1.2 Memetics or dissimulation?
    • 7.1.3 Late Capitalism holograms
  • 7.2 Microbiome decimation
    • 7.2.1 Antibiotics
  • 7.3 Evisceration
    • 7.3.1 Resection
    • 7.3.2 The horizon of tonsil transplants
  • 7.4 Halogenation
    • 7.4.1 The halogen periodic family
    • 7.4.2 History of water adulteration
    • 7.4.3 Fluoridation
    • 7.4.4 Chlorination
  • 7.5 Fermentation
  • 7.6 Planktonic centrifuges
    • 7.6.1 Obesity Epidemic
    • 7.6.2 Opioid Epidemic
  • 7.7 Gendercide
  • 7.8 Or, is Capitalism the biofilmic logic of ambivalence?
    • 7.8.1 Public health normativity
    • 7.8.2 Zeitgeist metaphors
• Chapter 8: Cancer, or, the spurious non-communicable disease
  • 8.1 A faux-history: Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • 8.2 A disease weaponised: Devra Davis
  • 8.3 The new aetiology
    • 8.3.1 Otto Warburg
    • 8.3.2 Thomas Seyfried
    • 8.3.3 Paul Davies
    • 8.3.4 The ancient carcinogenic ecology
    • 8.3.5 The modern carcinogenic ecology
  • 8.4 Koch’s Postulates
  • 8.5 Anti-cure
  • 8.6 Ecological rapprochement with cytology
  • 8.7 The Five Pillars of Oncology
• Chapter 9: The neoplastic cause
  • 9.1 Lipasic-PETasic fungi / biofilms
  • 9.2 Reproductive barrier disruptor fungi / biofilms
  • 9.3 Reproductive barrier biofilms
  • 9.4 Odontic glycolytic biofilms
  • 9.5 Neurological cyanobacterial biofilms
  • 9.6 Respiratory halophilic biofilms
  • 9.7 Colorectal lactophilic biofilms
  • 9.8 Nasal mucolytic biofilms
• Chapter 10: A modern conception of the mycobiome
  • 10.1 Mycobiome consolidation
  • 10.2 Fungi
    • 10.2.1 Filamentous fungi
    • 10.2.2 Single-celled fungi
    • 10.2.3 Dimorphic fungi
  • 10.3 Endophytes
  • 10.4 Epiphytes
  • 10.5 Mycorrhizae
    • 10.5.1 Arbuscular mycorrhizae
    • 10.5.2 Ectomycorrhizae
    • 10.5.3 Ericoid mycorrhizae
    • 10.5.4 Orchid mycorrhizae
  • 10.6 A schema of mycorrhizae
• Chapter 11: Selection
  • 11.1 The segregation of kingdoms
  • 11.2 Cultural selection
    • 11.2.1 Positive evolution
    • 11.2.2 Flapping, fidgeting, decompression, and rhythm
    • 11.2.3 The cultural selection of orality
  • 11.3 Microbial selection
  • 11.4 Phylogenetic discontinuities
• Chapter 12: Nosology
  • 12.1 The arbitrariness of extant nosology
  • 12.2 Carcinogenic Space Race
  • 12.3 Neoplasms, tumours, and cancer
    • 12.3.1 Lung cancer
    • 12.3.2 Breast cancer
    • 12.3.3 Colorectal cancer
    • 12.3.4 Prostate cancer
    • 12.3.5 Gastric cancer
  • 12.4 Carcinoma
    • 12.4.1 Basal Cell Carcinoma
    • 12.4.2 Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  • 12.5 Sarcoma
  • 12.6 Melanoma
    • 12.6.1 The unification of skin cancer
  • 12.7 Leukaemia
  • 12.8 Lymphoma
    • 12.8.1 Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
    • 12.8.2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma
    • 12.8.3 The unification of lymphoma
  • 12.9 Germinoma
• Chapter 13: Aetiologies of null-communicable diseases
  • 13.1 Diabetes mellitus
  • 13.2 Rheumatoid arthritis
  • 13.3 Chronic Kidney Disease
  • 13.4 Ischaemic heart disease
  • 13.5 Paraesophageal hernia
  • 13.6 Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • 13.7 Epilepsy
  • 13.8 Parkinson’s disease
  • 13.9 Alzheimer’s disease
  • 13.10 Dementia praecox
• Chapter 14: Odontic Ecology
  • 14.1 Dental roots
  • 14.2 The pillars of dentition
  • 14.3 Evolution of dentition
  • 14.4 Spatial dynamics
    • 14.4.1 Decompression
    • 14.4.2 Compression
    • 14.4.3 Oscillation
    • 14.4.4 Temperature
  • 14.5 Symbioclasis of the fungal guest
• Chapter 15: Metabolic Ecology
  • 15.1 An evolutionary consideration of diet
  • 15.2 Ecological considerations
  • 15.3 An eco-evolutionary perspective
    • 15.3.1 Control of fire
    • 15.3.2 The poetics of vegetarianism
    • 15.3.3 Nitrogen fixation
    • 15.3.4 Inorganic chemistry
    • 15.3.5 Spices
    • 15.3.6 Lipidomics
    • 15.3.7 Glycomics
  • 15.4 Sex-based dietary phenomena
• Chapter 16: Postural Ecology
  • 16.1 Therapsid posture
  • 16.2 Theropod posture
  • 16.3 Primate posture
    • 16.3.1 Australopithecus afarensis
    • 16.3.2 Homo habilis / Homo floresiensis
    • 16.3.3 Homo erectus
    • 16.3.4 Homo neanderthalensis
    • 16.3.5 Homo sapiens
  • 16.4 Cultural Involution
    • 16.4.1 Multivalent Force Neutrality
    • 16.4.2 Non-random Compression
    • 16.4.3 Non-rhythmic Compression
    • 16.4.4 Decompressive Inversion
    • 16.4.5 Decompressive Compensation
  • 16.5 Body as Isomorph
  • 16.6 Microbial Ethology
• Chapter 17: Allosexual Ecology
  • 17.1 Allosexual behaviour
  • 17.2 Anisogamy
  • 17.3 Neural crest germ layer
  • 17.4 Onanism
  • 17.5 Sexual selection of the auriculomotor system
• Chapter 18: Social Ecology
  • 18.1 Clearing the den
  • 18.2 The cause of the Agricultural Revolution (13 ka)
  • 18.3 The first civilisation was xyloid (5000 BCE)
  • 18.4 The Giza Necropolis (2500 BCE)
  • 18.5 The Art of War (500 BCE)
  • 18.6 Mona Lisa (1500 CE)
  • 18.7 William Shakespeare (1600 CE)
  • 18.8 Being-infinite
  • 18.9 Meta-kingdom heterotrophs
• Chapter 19: Cultural Ecology
  • 19.1 The Messinian, Zanclean, Piacenzian Cultural Ecologies
  • 19.2 The Gelasian Cultural Ecology
  • 19.3 The Calabrian Cultural Ecology
  • 19.4 The allegory of kingdoms
  • 19.5 Identity discombobulation
  • 19.6 Ceramics and textiles
  • 19.7 The cell cycle
  • 19.8 The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  • 19.9 Origami future
  • 19.10 Solar-lunar proportionality
  • 19.11 Gherardini’s guarnello
• Chapter 20: The Twelve Strands of Neo-oncology
  • 20.1 Elasticity
  • 20.2 Grace
  • 20.3 Node
  • 20.4 Disgrace
  • 20.5 Hole
  • 20.6 Fire
  • 20.7 Mirror
  • 20.8 Pole
  • 20.9 Dissimulacra
  • 20.10 Gravity
  • 20.11 Fast
  • 20.12 Pillar-Strand

Why Sleep? Language Dreams As Precessional Zeitgeist

• Chapter 1: Neurology
  • 1.1 Lateralisation 8
  • 1.2 Contralateralisation 8
  • 1.3 Globalisation 8
  • 1.4 Encephalisation
• Chapter 2: Otolaryngology 10
  • 2.1 – 600 Ma: The dopaminergic system (movement) 10
  • 2.2 – 400 Ma: The common tongue of animals 10
  • 2.3 – 350 Ma – The ARC gene (memory) 10
  • 2.4 – 300 Ma: The visual system jump discontinuity 10
  • 2.5 – 270 Ma: The auditory system jump discontinuity 10
  • 2.6 – 250 Ma: Limbic system refinement 11
  • 2.7 – 65 Ma: Primate speech 11
  • 2.8 – 10 Ma: The evolutionary origins of alcohol 11
  • 2.9 – 2.5 Ma: The anatomy of the late hominin throat 12
  • 2.10 – 20 ka: Neanderthal replacement hypothesis
• Chapter 3: Oneirology 14
  • 3.1 Relativity neural theory 14
  • 3.2 Oneiric theory of cortical real estate 14
  • 3.3 A new oneiric theory 14
  • 3.4 Ecological niches 14
  • 3.5 Thought surveillance 15
  • 3.6 Aphasic inner monologue 15
  • 3.7 Language dreams
• Chapter 4: Liquid 16
  • 4.1 Golgi and Cajal 16
  • 4.2 Golgi 16
  • 4.3 Cajal 16
  • 4.4 Fluidity 16
  • 4.5 The Fixative
• Chapter 5: Gas / Solid 17
  • 5.1 Circulatory system: the bends 17
  • 5.2 Glymphatic system: aquaporin bends 17
  • 5.3 Central nervous system 18
    • 5.3.1 Aphantasia
    • 5.3.2 Sleep paralysis and parasomnias
    • 5.3.3 Reproductive system sleep cycles
  • 5.4 Limbic system dysbarism 18
  • 5.5 Endocrine system aerobullosis 19
  • 5.6 Lymphatic degasification
• Chapter 6: Natural Selection 20
  • 6.1 – 4 Ba: Let there be water 20
  • 6.2 – 3.5 Ba: The lipid bilayer 20
  • 6.3 – 2.5 Ba: The metallic microbial mat 20
  • 6.4 – 1.5 Ba: The divergence of plants and opisthokonts 20
  • 6.5 – 500 Ma: The nervous and skeletal systems 20
  • 6.6 – 300 Ma: The lignification of seeds and its secret weapon 20
  • 6.7 – 25 Ma: Tail-loss evolution 20
    • 6.7.1 The ecology restructures the body
    • 6.7.2 Lost cylindrical trackways
  • 6.8 A half-billion year round trip
• Chapter 7: Grit 23
  • 7.1 Regolithic substrates 23
  • 7.2 Seeds 23
  • 7.3 Fibre 23
  • 7.4 Crystallophily
• Chapter 8: Lipids 25
  • 8.1 The impermeability of lipidation 25
    • 8.1.1 Lipid oxidation
    • 8.1.2 Lipid rafts
    • 8.1.3 Lipidity slippage
  • 8.2 The unforeseen consequence of this particular eukaryotic schema 25
  • 8.3 The castling phenomenon of tea 26
  • 8.4 Lipolytics 26
    • 8.4.1 Reduction of REM
    • 8.4.2 Acetylcholine deficiency
    • 8.4.3 Desiccation of pharyngeal mucous and the absence of rheum
    • 8.4.4 Demyelination
• Chapter 9: Glycans 28
  • 9.1 The value of attachment 28
  • 9.2 Amylase enzyme 28
    • 9.2.1 Diastase mutants
    • 9.2.2 Amylase inhibition
  • 9.3 Glycolytic amplifiers 29
  • 9.4 Desaccharisation dysfunction
• Chapter 10: Cultural selection 30
  • 10.1 Consciousness 30
  • 10.2 Localisation and lateralisation 31
  • 10.3 – 7 Ma: Aquatic locomotion and its structural consequences 31
  • 10.4 – 3 Ma: The evolution of hair-loss 31
  • 10.5 – 2.5 Ma: The aboral axis breach 32
  • 10.6 – 2.5 Ma: Herpetophobic glottology
• Chapter 11: The demythologisation of mirror neurons 34
  • 11.1 – 90 Ma: Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse necessitates the appendix 34
  • 11.2 – 65 Ma: Do birds dream in song? 34
  • 11.3 – 50 Ma: The language divide 34
  • 11.4 – 7 Ma: Musical language 35
  • 11.5 – 5 Ma: Click language 36
  • 11.6 – 2.5 Ma: Elaborate language
• Chapter 12: Synaesthesia 38
  • 12.1 Aetiology of insomnia 38
    • 12.1.1 Otic biofilmic serule
    • 12.1.2 Visual cortical biofilmic serule
    • 12.1.3 Visual dream jamming
    • 12.1.4 Pharyngeal biofilmic serule incites language dreams
    • 12.1.5 Language dream jamming
    • 12.1.6 Dream jamming
    • 12.1.7 Internal monologue incites insomnia
    • 12.1.8 Salivary gland biofilmic serule
    • 12.1.9 Ocular biofilmic serule
• Chapter 13: Spirituality 42
  • 13.1 – 650 Ma: The Red Queen 42
  • 13.2 – 270 Ma: The adapted limbic system promotes a certain bitter sweetness 42
  • 13.3 – 80 Ma: The mycorrhizal bridge 42
  • 13.4 – 70 Ma: Aye-ayes 43
  • 13.5 – 10 Ma: Expansion of the aquatic-mellivory-crocodile triumvirate 43
  • 13.6 – 5 Ma: The war-and-sex ensemble 43
  • 13.7 – 2.5 Ma: The Palaeolithic ensemble 44
  • 13.8 – 2.5 - 1.5 Ma: The diasporic ensemble 45
  • 13.9 – 1.5 Ma - 700 ka: Magic, totem and taboo 47
  • 13.10 – 700 ka: The fruit of the modern human migration 47
  • 13.11 – 500 ka: Silviculture 48
  • 13.12 – 200 ka: The Clothing Revolution 48
  • 13.13 – 60 ka: A less ancient diaspora 48
  • 13.14 – 200 ka - 1000 BCE: Modern religion 49
  • 13.15 – 50 ka: Fermento-api- and fermento-coffea-cultures collide with viniculture 49
  • 13.16 – 40 ka: Canine domestication 50
  • 13.17 – 30 ka: Sepulture 51
  • 13.18 – 20 ka: Thatched roofing 52
  • 13.19 – 10 ka: Feline domestication 52
  • 13.20 – 5 ka: The bicameral mind
• Chapter 14: The intersection of technics and morality 54
  • 14.1 The ontological substrate 54
  • 14.2 Being spiritual (and existential) as mortal centrifuge 54
  • 14.3 A trajectory towards handedness (depotentiating the symmetry of sex) not warfare, bipedalism, or language
• Chapter 15: Echoes of the biogenetic law 56
  • 15.1 Biofilmic recession recapitulates inverse ontogeny 56
  • 15.2 Age exponentially advances mortality 56
  • 15.3 Somnolence recapitulates phylogeny 56
  • 15.4 Death as positive, outpacing negative, feedback 57
  • 15.5 Carcinogenesis recapitulates inverse ontogeny 57
  • 15.6 Cardiovascular diseases recapitulate ontogeny 58
  • 15.7 Space is inverse time
• Chapter 16: The (mostly symmetrical) lost postures 59
  • 16.1 – 600 Ma: Oikopleura dioica (sexual death drive / asynchronous fertilisation) 59
  • 16.2 – 300 Ma: Therapsid (quadrupedal dorsi- / plantarflexion) 59
  • 16.3 – 65 Ma: Primate (emotional gestures) 60
  • 16.4 – 25 Ma: Catarrhine (tail and pinnae-orientation losses) 60
  • 16.5 – 6 Ma: Ardipithecus kadabba (breaststroke) 61
  • 16.6 – 4.5 Ma: Ardipithecus ramidus (bounding gait) 61
  • 16.7 – 3.5 Ma: Australopithecus afarensis (foot prehension / heel strike / ambidexterity) 61
  • 16.8 – 2.5 Ma: Homo habilis (clasped feet / dangling legs / nail flexion) 62
  • 16.9 – 2 Ma: Homo erectus (jaw torque) 62
  • 16.10 – 1 Ma: Homo heidelbergensis (tocologically vertical / oxytocic modulation) 63
  • 16.11 – 10 ka: San Bushman (squat) 64
  • 16.12 – 7000 BCE: Late Neolithic (clasped hands) 64
  • 16.13 – 3000-2500 BCE: Giza Complex (therianthropy / legs akimbo) 64
  • 16.14 – 2300 BCE: Mesopotamian sanitation (pelvic floor) 65
  • 16.15 – Year Zero: Judeo-Christianity (prayer / crucifixion pose) 66
  • 16.16 – 500: Fall of the Roman Empire (crocodile pose / decubitus) 67
  • 16.17 – 1500: Mona Lisa (reverse-crossed arms) / St. Anthony’s fire (asymmetric contortion) / Salem (witch pose) 67
  • 16.18 – 1750: The Industrial Revolution (arms akimbo) 68
  • 16.19 – 1900: The Automotive Revolution (prehensile grip) 68
  • 16.20 – 21st Century: Modern head gestures (neck torque)
• Chapter 17: The precessional juncture 70
  • 17.1 Paranoiac-Critical Science 70
  • 17.2 Floral clade dynamics 71
  • 17.3 Decoding India 72
  • 17.4 The centrality of Australia 72
  • 17.5 The irony of mammals 73
  • 17.6 The Precessional Age(s) 74
  • 17.7 COVID-19
• Chapter 18: Nuclear Autumn 77
  • 18.1 The nuclear code 77
  • 18.2 The other nuclear code 77
  • 18.3 The alphabet code 77
  • 18.4 The number code 79
  • 18.5 Türkiye
• Chapter 19: The nouveaux biological substrates and overarching culture 81
  • 19.1 The biofilmic ontological substrate 81
  • 19.2 The biofilmic cultural substrate 81
  • 19.3 Language dreams: one sign amongst many for the new order 82
  • 19.4 Microbial cargo trafficking: the fifth dimension of variation 82
  • 19.5 Globularisation 83
  • 19.6 The cortical expansion, revisited 84
  • 19.7 Vernacular monuments 84
  • 19.8 The pri[c/s]e of altriciality
• Chapter 20: The carcinogenic implications of language dreams 86
  • 20.1 Pharyngeal cancer 86
  • 20.2 Cerebral cancer 86
  • 20.3 Renal cancer 86
  • 20.4 Salivary implications 87
  • 20.5 The culture of utilising nature’s non-contradictions

BCE 2000 | 2000 CE Greeks to Geeks or Greens: Desilvering the mirror of AI

• Chapter 1: The temporal mirror 7
  • 1.1: The temporal mirror 7
  • 1.2 Compartments within the temporal mirror 7
    • 1.2.1 - Archaic: The universal language of animals
    • 1.2.2 - 2500 BCE: The group-machine: Elam
    • 1.2.3 - 2000 BCE: Internal god-like consciousness: The myth of bestiality
    • 1.2.4 - 1500 BCE: God’s laws can be stored in an artificial memory: writers resemble gods: Judaism
    • 1.2.5 - 1000 BCE: Dark Age
    • 1.2.6 - 500 BCE: Politicians resemble gods
    • 1.2.7 - 0 CE: Polyphony
    • 1.2.8 - 500 CE: Western civilisation
    • 1.2.9 - 1000: Dark Age
    • 1.2.10 - 1500: God’s laws can be calculated: cosmologists resemble gods
    • 1.2.11 - 2000: External god-like consciousness (books redundant): Apocalypse not nuclear, but matriarchal
    • 1.2.12 - 2500: Man-machine: Bestiality becomes real: Elam | male or female
    • 1.2.13 - Post-history: Universal language is achieved (again)
• Chapter 2: Third Millennium: Geeks or Greens? 16
  • 2.1 Geekdom 16
    • 2.1.1 Spatial-visual (convolutional) neural networks: Sex and Art
    • 2.1.2 Temporal-verbal (recurrent) neural networks: Language and Knowledge
    • 2.1.3 Neuro-symbolic AI
  • 2.2 The Green Revolution 16
  • 2.3 Green AI: oxymoron or not?
• Chapter 3: The Axial Age 18
  • 3.1 The Promethean Age is mirrored by the Technological Age
• Chapter 4: Alligators 19
  • 4.1 Alligators mirror to AI 19
  • 4.2 Mirror neurons 19
  • 4.3 Temporal Fenestrae
• Chapter 5: Leonardo da Vinci reflects the schema of world history 21
  • 5.1 Repudiation of the myth-of-the-myth
• Chapter 6: Allegorical poetics 22
  • 6.1 Appellocracy 22
    • 6.1.1 The World Wars
    • 6.1.2 - 1948 = 1984
    • 6.1.3 The World Map decoded
• Chapter 7: The CIA 26
  • 7.1 If ‘X’ is rotational invariance, ‘C’ is parity invariance 26
  • 7.2 History of the CIA 26
  • 7.3 CIA mirrors Babylon 27
  • 7.4 CIA encodes the grand historical aporia 27
  • 7.5 Taking out the CIA
• Chapter 8: Los Angeles as Specular Economy 29
  • 8.1 Hollywood as Tinseltown 29
  • 8.2 The Other LA 29
  • 8.3 The Glitterati
• Chapter 9: The Middle Minoan Period (MMIA) 31
  • 9.1 Middle Minoan Period 31
    • 9.1.1 2000 BCE (Gods created) - 2000 CE (God is dead)
  • 9.2 Ages in Space 31
  • 9.3 Ages in Time 31
  • 9.4 The Juncture in Reflection 31
  • 9.5 Has Linear A already been decoded? 32
  • 9.6 Proto-Elamite 32
  • 9.7 The forgetfulness of Theseus (and labyrinthine Minoan cities) is mirrored by Alzheimer’s disease
• Chapter 10: The Avian Influenza Virus 35
  • 10.1 Allegory 35
  • 10.2 Evolution 35
  • 10.3 Zoonotic contagion
• Chapter 11: The Alphabet to its quadrimillennial far bet 37
  • 11.1 The other Alphabet Code
• Chapter 12: Linear A 38
  • 12.1 Linear A 38
  • 12.2 Not only is AI reflected in the mirror, AI is the mirror
• Chapter 13: Mythology 42
  • 13.1 Greek myths 42
    • 13.1.1 Prometheus
    • 13.1.2 Theseus and the Minotaur
    • 13.1.3 Perseus and Medusa
    • 13.1.4 Teiresias
    • 13.1.5 Achilles: The bizarre addendum
    • 13.1.6 Plato
    • 13.1.7 Narcissus and Echo
    • 13.1.8 Orpheus and Eurydice
  • 13.2 Jewish myths 48
    • 13.2.1 Israel
    • 13.2.2 Judaism
  • 13.3 Graeco-Judeo-Christian myths 49
    • 13.3.1 Julian Calendar
    • 13.3.2 Easter / Christmas
  • 13.4 Geek myths 51
    • 13.4.1 Geek ≠ Meek
    • 13.4.2 Cryptocurrency mirrors dirty AI
  • 13.5 Green myths 52
    • 13.5.1 The myth of climate change
    • 13.5.2 The myth of grassroots
  • 13.6 The Green-Geek dialectic 53
  • 13.7 The apotheosis of the public sphere
• Chapter 14: Logarithmic and exponential inverse functions 55
  • 14.1 Evolutionary Symmetry 55
  • 14.2 The order-of-magnitude problem
• Chapter 15: Reverse Chirality 59
  • 15.1 - 500 BCE - 500 CE: The Roman Empire 59
  • 15.2 - 1000 BCE - 1000 CE: The Dark Ages 59
  • 15.3 - 1500 BCE - 1500 CE: The Golden Age goes back and forward 59
  • 15.4 - 2000 BCE - 2000 CE: Ages amidst Timelessness
• Chapter 16: The temporal mirror: 1975-2025 61
  • 16.1 Khmer Rouge: 1975 as Year Zero 61
  • 16.2 Half-century of film decoded 61
  • 16.3 Simulation hypothesis 62
  • 16.4 - 2000: There is no Year Zero: Y2K obfuscated 9/11 62
  • 16.5 - 2008: GFC trivialised by The Big Short 62
  • 16.6 - 2017: #MeToo 62
    • 16.6.1 Weinstein = wine + Einstein: Miramax = mirror maximisation
  • 16.7 - 2025: Artificial Intelligence and Avian Influenza
• Chapter 17: Democracies have no mirror 64
  • 17.1 Liberty | Justice 64
  • 17.2 Habermas and the public sphere 65
  • 17.3 The anonymised, redacted public register 65
  • 17.4 Social media chatter as funhouse mirror 67
  • 17.5 AI in the political realm 68
  • 17.6 Phonetic alphabet: the ultimate myth
• Chapter 18: Timeline possibilities 73
  • 18.1 Arboreal evolutionary time 73
    • 18.1.1 Reverting to evolutionary time
    • 18.1.2 The Big Bang
    • 18.1.3 Imaginary time: The Wick rotation
  • 18.2 Cyclical: Cosmological time 73
    • 18.2.1 Orbital cycles
    • 18.2.2 Resetting every aeon
  • 18.3 Statistical: Quantum time 74
    • 18.3.1 Orbitals as probabilistic volume
  • 18.4 Spiral: Endosymbiotic time 74
    • 18.4.1 Endosymbiosis rather than speciation as evolutionary prime mover
  • 18.5 Palimpsestical: Cultural time 74
    • 18.5.1 Overwriting is another form of mirror
  • 18.6 Labyrinthine: Slime time 74
    • 18.6.1 Byzantine, two mirrored Dark Ages, and the desilvered mirror
    • 18.6.2 Why Australia is the World’s mine
• Chapter 19: Grand Unification Theory as Specular Solution 77
  • 19.1 Guts and toes 77
  • 19.2 Nuclear: the ultimate myth of mirrors 81
  • 19.3 Postcession 82
  • 19.4 Precession | Postcession 83
  • 19.5 Pre-Einstein
• Chapter 20: World War III 87
  • 20.1 The Epidemiological Mirror: Overcoming Heidegger and Gadamer 87
  • 20.2 A New Schema 87
  • 20.3 History as Conspiracy 88
  • 20.4 The Ontology of Understanding 88
  • 20.5 The Alligator Contradiction 90
  • 20.6 The ‘F’ Laws 92
  • 20.7 The Marriage Laws 93
  • 20.8 Significance 94
  • 20.9 The Marxism of Manx 95
  • 20.10 Faraday Cages
• Conclusion: A world without seasons will have hotels on Antarctica 97
• Epilogue: The Asymmetry of Orientalism 99