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  • This outfolding is at an early stage, and eventually the various ways in which it is manifested -- solipsistic profiles on Facebook and MySpace, instantaneous mass communication on Twitter, mind-melding on blogs, self-broadcasting on YouTube, virtual identities in Second Life -- will merge.

    Peter Daou: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding 2009

  • Reversing Grossinger's idea: the outfolding of the human mind, the collective sharing of our thoughts, myriad thoughts from the inane to the mundane to the profound, enabled by technology, is changing our perception of reality and thus changing reality itself.

    Peter Daou: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding 2009

  • In the larger picture, the most intriguing thing about Twitter is not how it is different from other online communication mechanisms, but how it is the same: one more technological innovation enabling the outfolding of consciousness -- the collective turning-outward of human thought.

    Peter Daou: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding 2009

  • As Peter Daou writes, in the larger picture, the most intriguing thing about Twitter is not how it is different from other online communication mechanisms, but how it is the same: one more technological innovation enabling the outfolding of consciousness -- the collective turning-outward of human thought.

    Daily Digest editors, the 2009

  • ¦ No, they did not dream of conquering the galaxy, that was absurd on the face of it, they simply wanted freedom to range and rule without bound, and "rule" did not mean tyranny over others, it meant just that others should not stand in the way of the full outfolding of that spirit which lay in the Race ¦

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

  • By slow, inappreciable, indivisible accretion and outfolding, he is lifted, floated, drifted on towards the face of the awful mirror in which he must encounter his first foe -- must front himself.

    A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864

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