Hello There I'm Thomas

this is a dynamically expanding digital slice of my mind

I hope it's used one day as one of my many digital footprints that will assist the AI overlords in establishing fidelity for their upload of my consciousness

"To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." ~ Stephen Hawking

I'm a BFA4 Experimental Animator and a big Nerd

Art thoughts:

(major psychobabble warning)

Recursion. Repetition. Recursion. Repetition.
Everything that occurs recurs, yet no two iterations are exactly the same
Time is a memory-based illusion; every moment is constantly recurring within every other moment

Consciousness is a liquid flowing through a tunnel
The tunnel is our physical existence and environment, shifting, expanding, contracting, but constraining the liquid no less
Each tunnel is an individual life; The wider the tunnel, the higher the consciousness
All tunnels collide and explode into countless other tunnels; reincarnation is not 1:1 but an infinite process of fragmentation and recombination
The collisions of tunnels create an inexplicably complex web of life and death
The flow of liquid is a heterogeneous and endlessly unique soul energy
Every lifeform's perception of self as a drop in the ocean is an illusion; The entire ocean is constantly flowing through every tunnel

Nerd thoughts:

Spoiler free review of Andor, the new Star Wars show on Disney+

This is some of the best Star Wars content ever.
Never has an iteration of a franchise made me so wholly reconsider why I enjoy it in the first place.
Star Wars is camp, and that's why we love it, but this is by far the most Real Shit ever shown in the universe.
To get down to the gritty details of Imperial bureaucracy and Rebel desperation is a beautiful thing,
especially in a universe that was inspired by real life brutality (namely the Vietnam War), and has yet struggled to ever make the stakes feel believable.
Star Wars has nearly always existed within the confines of the standard hero's journey.
While it is clearly a tried and true method of storytelling,
it contains a level of safety that often stands in the way of real, gritty narratives.
Andor, alongside Rogue One, the film which inspired it,
toss aside the comfort of plot armor and other standard devices.
They do so in favor of more tragically accurate takes on society and human nature,
which just so happen to take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

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