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 The diaspora of what can develop balloons in new directions with each new bootstrap. In addition to the inorganic -> biological bootstrap, we also have the biological -> societal bootstrap and the biological -> intellectual.
 
-The societal level builds on the inorganic and biological levels and deals in the economics of resources. This layer contains traditional economics as we know it in the 21st century. At some point, the biological stumbled into controlling resources in a way that increased its fitness for itself and for many additional generations. The original adaptation enabled collecting just enough to get through the winter. An economy that dealt in wealth and abundance emerged. Like an organism building a nest, an organism that builds a society protectsitself from the need to evolve at the biological level. Society tends to slow down evolution because the organism can assure the survival of its genes by means other than biological adaptation. The knowledge for humans to excel in the economy of resources gets encoded in the memes that make up various aspects of our culture.
+The societal level builds on the inorganic and biological levels and deals in the economics of resources. This layer contains traditional economics as we know it in the 21st century. At some point, the biological stumbled into controlling resources in a way that increased its fitness for itself and for many additional generations. The original adaptation enabled collecting just enough to get through the winter. An economy that dealt in wealth and abundance emerged. Like an organism building a nest, an organism that builds a society protects itself from the need to evolve at the biological level. Society tends to slow down evolution because the organism can assure the survival of its genes by means other than biological adaptation. The knowledge for humans to excel in the economy of resources gets encoded in the memes that make up various aspects of our culture.
 
-The intellectual level finds its foundation in the biological platform, but also has the advantage of bootstrapping after the societal level and thus has access to that infrastructure as well. The intellectual deals in an economy of time-shifted reproduction of phenomena. This phenoena leads to science. We should not take the ability to anticipate the outcome of an action, and to trigger that action as a given. This development depends on the intellectual level developing. This ability generates things like language. When I shout 'Duck!' I expect to get a certain response from those around me. If I shout Duck! Quack, Quack! I will have an anticipation of what other's will see in their heads in these two different circumstances. We accumulate the knowledge needed to excel at this level in symbols that we put down on paper or up into the internet.
+The intellectual level finds its foundation in the biological platform, but also has the advantage of bootstrapping after the societal level and thus has access to that infrastructure as well. The intellectual deals in an economy of time-shifted reproduction of phenomena. This phenomenon leads to science. We should not take the ability to anticipate the outcome of an action, and to trigger that action as a given. This development depends on the intellectual level developing. This ability generates things like language. When I shout 'Duck!' I expect to get a certain response from those around me. If I shout Duck! Quack, Quack! I will have an anticipation of what others will see in their heads in these two different circumstances. We accumulate the knowledge needed to excel at this level in symbols that we put down on paper or up into the internet.
 
 #### VI. A god in the dust
 
 Pirsig proposes a further concept called **Dynamic Quality** that he points to as the bleeding edge of reality as we cut through time. Pirsig lets Dynamic Quality lead where it will. I will choose to pass this dynamic quality through the lens of Christopher Alexander's Nature of Order and focus it not on a random wandering, but on a purpose-filled generation of **Wholeness**.
 
-In this concept we find a god in the dust of everything, and not so much in the thing as in the relation of each thing to the other. In as much as a thing hangs together with the things around it, we can see this wholeness. When this wholeness presents iteslf, dynamic quality passes from a nebulous thing to a static quality. An entity emerges. Many entities emerge.
+In this concept we find a god in the dust of everything, and not so much in the thing as in the relation of each thing to the other. In as much as a thing hangs together with the things around it, we can see this wholeness. When this wholeness presents itself, dynamic quality passes from a nebulous thing to a static quality. An entity emerges. Many entities emerge.
 
 #### VII. Moral Authority
 
-When we observe this pattern of the bootstrap, the timescales that we currently consider reasonable for the age of the universe, and the time taken for each bootstrap, we can make a generalization about the universe. **The universe is in the business of bootstraps.** Further, the universe demands a **moral imperative** of bootstraps occuing. Each new bootstrap advances and that advancement has an implicit moral authority over the existing economies used to reach this new bootstrap.
+When we observe this pattern of the bootstrap, the timescales that we currently consider reasonable for the age of the universe, and the time taken for each bootstrap, we can make a generalization about the universe. **The universe is in the business of bootstraps.** Further, the universe demands a **moral imperative** of bootstraps occurring. Each new bootstrap advances and that advancement has an implicit moral authority over the existing economies used to reach this new bootstrap.
 
 What right do I have to say that morality comes into it at all? This complicated question has few good answers. We take it as a presupposition at this time drawn from the fact that we, as human beings, result from three bootstraps. I will lean some on Alexander's theoretical proposal for the equation of wholeness here. When things become a thing, it is good and right and the world emerges.
 
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 #### XIII. Superintelligence
 
-Contrary to popular belief, artificial intellegence(AI) will not constitute the next bootstrap. It may bring this bootstrap along faster, but in order for real superintelligence to emerge, it must make the manipulation across time and the reproduction of experimental results so effortless and common that a new economy based on something else entirely can emerge. I can't even comprehend what this looks likes, but I assume that entire simulated universes will pop in and out of existence in the same way that protons and electrons break and form chemical bonds.
+Contrary to popular belief, artificial intelligence(AI) will not constitute the next bootstrap. It may bring this bootstrap along faster, but in order for real superintelligence to emerge, it must make the manipulation across time and the reproduction of experimental results so effortless and common that a new economy based on something else entirely can emerge. I can't even comprehend what this looks likes, but I assume that entire simulated universes will pop in and out of existence in the same way that protons and electrons break and form chemical bonds.
 
 Imagine a universe where you can send a thousand copies of yourself on a 10,000 year journey to discover something and that that 10,000 years only seems to pass in a second for you. After that second you have access to the vast array of knowledge that your copies amassed during that 10,000 years.
 
 #### XIV. Bleeding Edges
 
-Please do not try to devine the next bootstrap and then pursue that with reckless abandon. We cannot predict the bleeding edge of dynamic quality. Instead, we should attempt to increase the surface area at each point in each system so that dynamic quality can have its way and we can find the wholeness produced. This does not assume that every touch point with dynamic quality holds equal potential to bootstrap. In fact, some points will produce fragile economies, others robust, and finally, the ones that actually bootstrap will produce antifragile economies. Expect many false starts along the way.
+Please do not try to divine the next bootstrap and then pursue that with reckless abandon. We cannot predict the bleeding edge of dynamic quality. Instead, we should attempt to increase the surface area at each point in each system so that dynamic quality can have its way and we can find the wholeness produced. This does not assume that every touch point with dynamic quality holds equal potential to bootstrap. In fact, some points will produce fragile economies, others robust, and finally, the ones that actually bootstrap will produce antifragile economies. Expect many false starts along the way.
 
 #### XV. Latching