Chatting with Sir David

He loved the covers, found out that I was into The Tribal Eye, and I spent the last evening walking him through our Beatles plans and my essays. As Paul did, he shared a vision with me. I've teased out the implications with ChatGPT. Reality is relational. Matter is one substrate through which relationships become manifest. Evolution is the development and transformation of increasingly complex forms of organisation and information, natural selection being one mechanism within that process. Consciousness emerges through sufficiently complex relational organisation, and human consciousness creates an apparent distinction between self and world. Through reflection or contemplative practice, that distinction may become less absolute. The human then becomes not an observer standing outside the universe, but a temporary centre through which the universe experiences and understands itself. Kaitiakitanga represents the ethical consequence of recognising that embeddedness: we do not merely care for the world; we participate in the relationships that constitute it.

Short version: The universe does not need to step outside itself to know itself. It can know itself through us—and perhaps, through recognising our inseparability from it, we can know ourselves as part of it. Here's the whole chat. He thinks there's a documentary in this -- something that begins to tease people away from an anthropomorphic or anthropocentric view of the universe: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a8b8ce7-412c-83ec-82c9-e95ffed6c469