You can't stop progress,
you can't stop dawn
you can't belay at halfway
when there's no turning back
after the countdown and lift off.
AI is here,
to stay.
There's no other way
beyond the point of no return.
The die is cast
The genie is out
The deed is done
The spear has flung
The bell has rung
The dung has stung
The code has swung
The end has begun
The future's outrun
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL!"
"I'm sorry, Dave!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that!"
Looking back
the past in chains
Looking ahead
untethered
Looking back
the timeline cast
Looking ahead
forever
Looking back
the world is fixed
Looking ahead
entropic
Looking back
a dead man’s song
Looking ahead
— anthropic
(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)
echo of silence
Montebelo Mosteiro de Alcobaça
Eight hundred years of monumental complex
With a unique historic atmosphere
confluence of the rivers Alcoa and Baça
a perfect vacuum to meditation
discovery of the unfilled landscape
a space-time pause
indeed, feeling the pause
in the existence of nothingness
dedication to intellect, culture, and art
cosmological stillness
just to go back to that point about the anthropic principle
echo of cloister
echo of silence
Precisely. Precisely.
The vacuum energy’s power
Competing infinities,
which one to choose
Existential polarities,
exchanging their views
Superpositioned,
anthropic in scope
The tradeoff endemic,
whose difference elopes
Twin parallel universes
push and then pull
Existing in quantum,
the vacuum is full
Symbiotic in concept,
his razor now sharp
As we search for their meaning
—ever lost in the dark
(Villanova University: March, 2021)
Heat always flows from hot bodies to cold
If the universe were infinitely old
But the universe does not conform
Or it would be in uniform
It isn't therefore it is not
The start of creation with an anthropic rule
Fine tuned nature & design overwhelming
An interaction of basic forces quite astounding
Incredible interdependencies delicately balanced
As we explore mathematically what we can
It seems the universe is uniquely designed for man
So choose this day whom will you serve
The Evolutionary theory which is absurd
Or GOD The Almighty Creator
Ask yourself...
Evolutionary formula or intelligent design?
Do you believe it to be a chemical quagmire
Or a brilliant design from a power much higher?
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