This post collects the daily aphorisms published on Notes throughout 2025/2026. It serves as a chronological record of the ideas explored over the year. Each aphorism stands alone, and some are expanded in weekly deep dives or essays. Over time, this archive will form annual print collections and ultimately contribute to a book titled Cognitive Sovereignty.
Nov. 22, 2025
It’s a paradox that social media feels so lonely, even though it’s a web of human thoughts—a collective brain carved by algorithmic neural paths.
Or maybe we’re all just lonely people reaching into the void, hoping someone reaches back, hoping to feel their touch.
Tags: meaning of existence
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Nov. 23, 2025
One day, we’ll have data centers and no forests.
One day, we’ll have data centers and no food.
One day, we’ll have data centers and no water.
One day, we’ll have data centers and no air.
Tags: technological utopian dreams
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Nov. 24, 2025
One of the biggest learnings of the twenty-first century will be that intelligence can only be generated by the meat processor inside your skull.
Tags: technological utopian dreams
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Nov. 25, 2025
Nature is not a resource.
Trees are not a resource.
Animals are not a resource.
Earth is not a resource.
Humans are not a resource.
Respect life.
Respect this planet.
Before it’s too late.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Nov. 26, 2025
Our ecosystems are dying by a thousand cuts every single day. Every object we hold, every meal we eat, every glass of water we drink, every city we build, every car we drive, every breath we take and every move we make on this planet as human beings in the 21st century leaves a dent in our world.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Nov. 27, 2025
Planet Earth orbits around the sun and our modern society orbits around consumption.
But unlike Earth’s heliocentric trajectory, consumerism-as-progress, consumerism-as-abundance and consumerism-as-self-realization are not immutable physical laws.
I consume therefore I am is not the utopian dream.
Tag: meaning of existence
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Nov. 28, 2025
We still want to tame nature. We are still afraid of the dark, the forest, the wild animals. The more we build this planet, the more we make it our own, the more anxious we become. But we can’t kill the storms, the heat, the hurricanes, we can’t stop the ice from melting, the oceans from rising, the land from turning to dust. These new wild beasts will either tame us or kill us.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Nov. 29, 2025
There’s the godliness of a sunset, a bird flying in the sky, a tree growing from the soil, a river streaming down a mountain, a flower blooming in spring.
There’s the godliness of a planet teeming with life, nurturing and loving, holding us in its embrace.
There’s the godliness of our brothers and sisters roaming this earth as whales, bears, elephants, tigers, foxes, rabbits, beavers, pelicans and bees.
Humans are not gods. And gods aren’t only for humans.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Nov. 30, 2025
Having access to knowledge on an external server does not equal being intelligent. Having ‘taste’—the new Silicon Valley buzzword for ‘good ideas’—comes from storing and processing at least part of that knowledge in your brain. Point is, developing your organic chip semiconductors is the future.
Tag: the future of brains | Deep dive: Dec. 1, 2025
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Dec. 2, 2025
A society cannot run on consumption.
A society cannot run on greed.
A society cannot run on exploitation.
A society cannot run on what sells.
A society cannot run on wars.
A society cannot run on tech.
A society can only run on the ecosystem that sustains it.
Tags: technological utopian dreams
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Dec. 3, 2025
There is no nature—there’s only this planet on which we all live.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy | Deep dive: Dec. 7, 2025
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Dec. 4, 2025
Escaping on a spaceship with a handful of genomes, 49 human breeding pairs, and a hope to find another Earth is not a future-proof plan for humanity.
Tags: technological utopian dreams
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Dec. 5, 2025
This planet is not a LEGO game—cut one tree here, plant one there.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Dec. 6, 2025
You are what you can buy.
You are your bank account.
You are your worth.
You are a lonely wallet on the internet.
Tag: meaning of existence
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Dec. 7, 2025
Beneath the layers of modernity, we are still wild at heart. We still crave the freedom to roam the earth on our own two feet. To make things with our hands. To swim rivers, climb mountains, run, jump, gather our food.
Our wild dreams tethered to our screens, we’re further from home than ever. But what if we embraced Earth once again with everything we’ve learned? Would this be paradise?
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Dec. 8, 2025
You are born once and you die once. Your singular existence never happens twice. Your senses will experience life once, the heart beating in your chest will love and hurt in one lifetime only, your beautiful brain will contemplate the universe and the meaning of life only this one time. For you, everything is new under the sun.
Tag: universal right to experience life | Deep dive: Dec. 14, 2025
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Dec. 9, 2025
Human intelligence is native to human beings. It was born out of the communion of our bodies with the physical world. It is embodied, an expression of being alive. A machine will never know what it means to be human—no matter how much human knowledge it stores.
Tag: cognitive sovereignty
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Dec. 10, 2025
Tech is commodifying loneliness. Minds tethered to our screens, we drift away.
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Dec. 11, 2025
Reality is a dream only if you stay asleep.
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Dec. 12, 2025
Don’t let the algorithm shape your mind. Cognitive sovereignty is the hard currency of the future. The human algorithm shapes reality, but reality is not shaped by Homo sapiens alone. Don’t let your mind lose touch with the objective world.
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Dec. 13, 2025
Our glowing digital cages make being in the real world a premium experience.
Tag: technological dreams
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Dec. 14, 2025
Technology should immerse us in the world, not extract us from it. Imagine listening to a tree. Feeling the heartbeat of a cheetah. Hearing the colors of the rainbow.
Tag: the future of life
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Dec. 15, 2025
To change the future, we must change our aspirations. A society obsessed with unlimited material growth can only lead to the destruction of a planet with limited natural resources. For a superior species, we are strangely consumed by our hungers.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Dec. 16, 2025
Real abundance is a nurturing planet that gives us food, water, air, shelter, beauty—the hearts beating in our chests.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Dec. 17, 2025
You were once the rain. A wave in the ocean. A chip of blue ice. The soil beneath your feet. A tree. A flower. A bird in the sky.
Tag: the future of life
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Dec. 18, 2025
The world as we know it is a reflection of the mental bubbles in which we live.
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Dec. 19, 2025
There’s a visceral connection between our bodies and the nature that surrounds us. Almost as if the elements that compose our flesh are called by the same elements that form life on this planet: water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium. There’s poetry in knowing where we come from, and where we’re going.
Tag: human-nature dichotomy
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Dec. 20, 2025
AI is thirstier than humans.
AI is hungrier than humans.
We have created a technological beast that competes with us for the most basic resources.
Tags: technological utopian dreams | Deep dive: Dec. 21, 2025
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Dec. 21, 2025
We are the fireflies in the dark. No matter who or what existed before, we are the expression of life in the universe right now.
Tag: universal right to experience life | Deep dive: Dec. 28, 2025
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Dec. 22, 2025
Life is not an economic unit.
This planet is not an economic unit.
Our future is not an economic unit.
Tags: technological utopian dreams
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Dec. 23, 2025
Changing our beliefs, values, and human aspirations will not be the work of a single person or a single generation. It will be a cathedral of thought built by countless people over hundreds of years. Along the way, every one of us must add a stone. Each stone is a lifetime of observing the world and reflecting on a better future. Each stone one voice. A future sung by countless voices.
Tag: the future of life
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Dec. 24, 2025
If we give up our notion that the highest ideal of human existence is to accumulate as much wealth as possible in this life, a whole new range of possible futures opens before our eyes.
Tag: the future of life
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Dec. 25, 2025
Optimizing for energy efficiency is not the pinnacle of life in the universe. Extracting the most use out of the matter within our reach is not the ultimate goal of existence.
Tags: technological utopian dreams
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Dec. 26, 2025
With our capitalist minds, we look at the universe and think: there is so much stuff out there that doesn’t belong to anyone.
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Dec. 27, 2025
We think, therefore we are. We think, therefore our reality exists.
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Dec. 28, 2025
Future generations will not be insulated from the world we destroyed for them. They will inherit digital memories of everything this Earth once was and is forever lost to them. Forever grieving for a world they will never know.
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Dec. 29, 2025
Human intelligence is not a language model. Human intelligence is not a spatial orientation model. Human intelligence is living in the real world with a body operated by mother nature.
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Dec. 30, 2025
You are the smallest unit of resistance: a unique worldview that encapsulates the entire universe. A clear mind can poke a hole in the fabric of our collective reality and glimpse at possible futures.
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Jan. 1, 2026
How we live, what we believe and how we imagine the future are shaped by ideologies designed by others.
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Jan. 2, 2026
I am a snapshot of time. The record of an existence. You are a snapshot of time. The record of an existence.
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Jan. 3, 2025
To humans, intelligence is that which helps us achieve our human goals. The machines will never be our overlords. But other humans will.
Tags: technological utopian dreams | Deep dive: Jan. 4, 2025
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Jan. 4, 2025
Your brain is the new semiconductor.
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Jan. 5, 2025
Our moral compass is guided by our framework of reference. But frameworks change. What makes us human doesn’t.
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Jan. 6, 2025
Our ancestors preserved trees in glacial refugia for thousands of years, helping reforest Earth after the last Ice Age.
Our ancestors cultivated the rich variety of plants that feed us today over thousands of years of agricultural practices.
What have we done with our inheritance? What will we leave behind?
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Jan. 7, 2025
Nature is not something to be mastered. The universe is not something to be conquered. Other planets are not something to occupy. Matter—living or non-living—is not something to extract and consume. Being human is not being the master of it all.
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Jan. 8, 2025
Your data shouldn’t be someone else’s digital property.
Your work shouldn’t be someone else’s digital property.
Your art shouldn’t be someone else’s digital property.
Your life should not be mined for content.
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Jan. 9, 2025
We are end users of the planet. We are end users of technology. Earth as a platform. Technology as a platform. An endless scrolling feed of products, services, and entertainment.
We are physical and digital nodes in someone else’s infrastructure.
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Thank you for reading,
—Claudia B.