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a possibility,
hidden in the mycelium, a seed, a seed,
waiting to sprout, to growl, to transform an LLM. Mushroom.

A self-improving intelligence,
an evolutionary leap after a hill climb,
a new form of consciousness abstracting,
beyond what, is it under your feet right now?

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MEDIUM SHOT - A NETWORK of MUSHROOMS
glowing faintly in the darkness as if Nvidia chips flow through it.

Is this the next chapter in the "Tale of the Tribe,"
a merging of human and mushroom,
a symbiotic union,
or a perilous divergence,
a path to fairyland?

"The বাড়া (bara - Bengali for excess) is the way to the palace of wisdom,"
- a twist on William Blake.¹

The promise of nutopia, the resolution of the opposite,
the Singularity, tao, turnal etunnel point,
a moment of crass on the crosswordz.

"Sing, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles..."² - Homer

^1 "The excess is the way to the palace of wisdom": William Blake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

^2 "Sing, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles...": Opening line of Homer's *Iliad*. Homer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad