EOS 1 Table of Contents – Mitchell Leads

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EOS 1. Engines of Simulation

Chapter 1 – Knowledge and Virtues

“Hiding in the Pre-Dawn Darkness”

Sections

1.5 – Lacking Charity

1.6 – Gnosis

1.7 – Sigils and Signals

Chapter 2 – A Duck Test

“A duck walks into a bar.”

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2.1 – Did someone just quack?

2.2 – It Waddles

2.3 – It Swims

2.4 – Kicking Frantically Below the Water line

2.5 – Calm and Serene on the Surface

2.6 – Then it must be the elephant in the room.

Chapter 3 – Don’t act paranoid

“That’s what they’re looking for!”

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3.1 – Who’s that? Who said that?

3.2 – Laugh and the world laughs with you.

3.3 – Cry and you cry alone.

3.4 – Paranoid, and they watch you like a hawk.

3.5 – They may not be out to get me…

3.6 – But I don’t like your chances!

3.7 – Pure Paranoia; it’s the only way to fly.

3.8 – But who is the hawk, and who is Icarus? It’s complex.

Chapter 4 – Zeno, the Red Queen and a Gingerbread Man set out to race

“‘Run, run, as fast as you can,’ the Red Queen said.”

Sections

4.1 – Ready, steady. Wait for it. Wait for it…

4.2 – Watch the first step. It’s a killer!

4.3 – (or a causal loop)

4.4 – ’round and ’round she goes, and where she stops?

4.5 – You can’t catch me – I’m a tortoise.

4.6 – Is a treadmill a machine or a metaphor?

4.7 – The faster you run the harder, to catch.

4.8 – Now who’s the fastest gingerbread on two legs?

Chapter 5 – Home Is Where The Heart Is

“We were never in Kansas”

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5.1 – Fool me once, shame on you (There’s no place like home)

5.2 – Toto is a wolf in Terrier’s clothing

5.3 – The brainless scarecrow is a straw man argument

5.4 – The heartless tin woodsman is exempt from the laws of robotics

5.5 – The second time is 2/3 of the charm (There’s no place like home)

5.6 – Dorothy is a serial witch killer

5.7 – The cowardly lion’s bark is worse than his bite

5.8 – The Wizard is a frustrated mid-level manager

5.9 – Is the diva, a narcissistic organ grinder, or a flying monkey?

5.10 – For the third and final time! (There’s no place like home)

Chapter 6 – Advertising free, Non-stop, 24 hour enlightenment.

“All koan, all the time.”

Sections

6.1 – Is perspective the loudest silence?

6.2 – Sickness Heals Medicine

6.3 – One hand applauding a fallen tree.

6.4 – A howling flag, in a moving gale.

6.5 – Who has the sharpest sword?

6.6 – Escaping from the net

6.7 – Give the world one finger

6.8 – Kill the Buddha!

Chapter 7 – The end of the beginning. The beginning of the end.

“This too shall pass.”

Sections

7.1 – Trial via media is a middle of the road ordeal

7.2 – A deluded demi-urge transfixed on Lewis’ trilemma

7.3 – What’s worse? A Trilemma or a Neurilemma?

7.4 – No-man’s land

7.5 – Zugzwang or Numberwang?

7.6 – The dark ages.

7.7 – The age of chivalry.

7.8 – Stuck in the middle with you.

7.9 – Buridan’s backside?

7.10 – Is, two steps forward and one step back, the start of a dance?

Chapter 8 – Walk into my parlor

“You are like us and your home is here.”

Sections

8.1 – Eight joint-legged, segmented bodied, air-breathing with venomous fangs

8.2 – Is that the dinner bell?

8.3 – Commence spider battle!

8.4 – Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans) v. Daddy long legs (Pholcus phalangioides)

8.5 – Black House Spider (Badumna insignis) v. Redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti)

8.6 – Brown Recluse Spider (Loxosceles reclusa) v. Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)

8.7 – Jumping spider (Portia fimbriata) v. Golden Orb Weaver (Nephila clavipes)

8.8 – The blooming bloody spider climbs

8.9 – Down came the rain

8.10 – And washed the spider out

8.11 – Out came the sun and the Spider ballooned away

Chapter 9 – never even

“Allergic to the fearful dust of lilac and hyacinth? Where’s a mask to wear?”

Sections

9.1 – Searching Nohwere

9.2 – Sam was a butler

9.3 – Frightfully artificial tears

9.4 – Digital dreams of a cunning potato

9.5 – Higgs bos’n for the Fisher King

9.6 – Straighten up and fly right

9.7 – Mrs. Grundy was incomprehensible

9.8 – Outlast the fire

9.9 – Its A Wired Henchman.

9.10 – An affectionate aphid,

9.11 – with a sting in the tail.

9.12 – Be killed or kill;

Chapter 10 – Crying in the Wilderness

“Fly. Let’s fly away.”

Sections

10.1 – Mine emptied mind echoed

10.2 – Inscrutable whispers

10.3 – Don’t tell the trees,

10.4 – what they don’t need to know.

10.5 – Whispered the grass.

10.6 – In the mind’s eye of the hurricane.

10.7 – The sound of silence.

10.8 – Whispers in the dark.

10.9 – Sometimes he wobbles.

Chapter 11 – The horror. The horror.

“Don’t recoil in horror. Fight back: rage back, scream back!”

Sections

11.1 – The singing wings of Adrasteia

11.2 – They have the strength for that?

11.3 – In the jungle, where are the sensors?

11.4 – Tink, I am your own light-hearted friend.

11.5 – Where did they come from?

11.6 – Carefully, incorrectly wrong.

11.7 – No one move!

11.8 – Not one muscle!

11.9 – Priests or cannibals?

11.10 – A taste of forbidden fruit.

11.11 – The dead coming home.

Chapter 12 – A Mind, A Taste, A Terrible Waste, Panama

Sections

12.1 – Knowledge and Virtues.

12.2 – A Duck Test.

12.3 – Don’t act paranoid.

12.4 – Zeno, the Red Queen and a Gingerbread Man set out to race.

12.5 – Home Is Where The Heart Is.

12.6 – Advertising free, Non-stop, 24 hour enlightenment!

12.7 – The end of the beginning. The beginning of the end.

12.8 – Walk into my parlor.

12.9 – never even.

12.10 – Crying in the wilderness.

12.11 – The horror. the horror.

12.12 – A Mind, A Taste, A Terrible Waste, Panama.

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