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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal
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📚 Author | 🎙️ Podcaster | 🎥 Filmmaker Stories from the quiet edges—cli-fi to AI, youth-led futures to ancient fires. ✨ Stone & Signal podcast | The Life of Phi | Draconim series
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 1h
"Survival alone is not the goal. We are meant to feel, to care, to belong to something larger than fear." L.Nault

#hope #community #belonging #humanity #compassion

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 1d
It's Banned Books Week. I've been thinking about how we blur the line between cancelling and censoring.

Censorship doesn't always arrive in uniform. Sometimes it comes dressed as virtue or "safety."

📖 lawrencenault.substack.com/p/the-thin-l...

#BannedBooksWeek #Censorship #FreeSpeech
The Thin Line Between Cancelling and Censoring
An essay to accompany "Storytelling As Resistance," episode 5 of Stone and Signal
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 1d
"There is wisdom in the way the forest shares sunlight. No hoarding, no hurry—just enough for all to grow." L.Nault

#nature #ecology #community #solarpunk #wisdom

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 1d
It’s Banned Books Week — a reminder that silencing stories isn’t the same as keeping people safe.

In my latest Stone and Signal episode, “Storytelling as Resistance.”

🎧 Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7Ihf...

#StoneAndSignal #BannedBooksWeek #Storytelling #IndieAuthors
Storytelling As Resistance
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 1d
"The more we rush toward the artificial, the more vital it becomes to remember what breathes without wires or code." L.Nault

#nature #technology #philosophy #solarpunk #digital

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 3d
"Some stories were planted before you were born. Your task isn’t to own them—it’s to help them bloom." L.Nault

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#storytelling #ancestry #legacy #wisdom #intergenerational

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"Some stories were planted before you were born. Your task isn’t to own them—it’s to help them bloom." L.Nault
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 4d
"A broken world doesn’t need your perfection. It needs your presence, your persistence, your hands in the soil." L.Nault

#hope #activism #resilience #solarpunk #community

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 4d
BAM — that moment you realize you’ve been writing a series all along… just not the kind of series anyone expects.

The Symbiosis Sequence isn’t linear — it’s conceptual.

Read the origin story → open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...

#SpecFic #AI #WritingLife #IndieAuthors #Substack
How The Symbiosis Sequence Found Its Shape
Tracing the evolution of our relationship with AI — through stories that mirror our own becoming.
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 5d
"You don’t have to speak loudly to be heard by the future. Just speak clearly, and mean it." L.Nault

#wisdom #authenticity #inspiration #truth #quotes

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 5d
🌍 MacIver Kids Adventures
Found family, diversity, courage & discovery:

Loma — a mystery in their hometown

Diversion — a space mission gone wrong

Titan’s Song — secrets beneath Saturn’s moon

📖 Start here: books2read.com/u/bpkQa6

#Alberta #TeachersStrike #YAbooks
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Loma by Lawrence Nault
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 5d
🐉 The Draconim Series
Teens bonded with dragons face real-world crises:

Lacrima Mortis — air pollution

Feeding the Fires — wildfires

Fingerprints in the Water — microplastics

📖 Start here: books2read.com/u/mgekQD

#Alberta #TeachersStrike #YAbooks
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Draconim Lacrima Mortis by Lawrence Nault
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 5d
📚 Alberta parents — with the pending teachers’ strike, your kids may be home (and restless).

To help, I’ve put the e-books of my YA Draconim series & MacIver Kids Adventures on sale.

✅ Alberta sale live now (open to all)
✅ Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books & more
#Alberta #TeachersStrike #YAbooks
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 6d
"Change rarely asks permission. Like roots breaking pavement, it rises slowly, then all at once." L.Nault

#change #transformation #nature

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 6d
Or step into Rephlexions ⬇️
books2read.com/u/bxkRGJ

AI governs every signal. Creativity is resistance.

#Rephlexions #BookSky #IndieAuthors
Available now at your favorite digital store!
RePHleXions: Echoes of Existence by Lawrence Nault
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 6d
Start with The Life of Phi ⬇️
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AI rises as humanity’s savior… but is it redemption or surrender?

#TheLifeOfPhi #BookSky
Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Life Of Phi by Lawrence Nault
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 6d
⏳ 2 months until Children of the Rogue (Dec 3).

To celebrate, I’ve dropped the e-book prices on my AI novels:
📘 The Life of Phi — AI as savior or surrender?
📘 Rephlexions — when art itself is rebellion.

Both on sale now.

#BookSky #SpecFic #IndieBooks
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 7d
"The ones who listen closely to the land are never truly lost. Even in collapse, they carry direction." L.Nault

#nature #wisdom #resilience

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 7d
"When truth becomes unbearable, the earth holds it quietly in stone, in seed, in the long memory of water." L.Nault

#poetry #nature #philosophy

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 9d
"In a world loud with profit and power, gentleness is radical. And it changes more than you think."L.Nault
#RadicalKindness #BeTheChange #SocialChange

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 9d
Found the DOI for the full paper behind those charts I posted yesterday.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17228412
https://zenodo.org/records/17228412

​#SpeculativeScience #AI #Anthropology
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 9d
"The Earth doesn’t need saving. It needs remembering. We forgot we were part of it, not apart from it." L.Nault

#NatureConnection #EarthWisdom #EnvironmentalPhilosophy

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 11d
Full document here (translated preprint, Institute for Evolutionary Systems Research):
https://open.substack.com/pub/lawrencenault/p/comparative-evolutionary-framework

Decide for yourself: are we sentient, or still in beta?

#SciFi #SpecFic #AI #Philosophy #WhatIf​
Comparative Evolutionary Framework: Homo Lineage as Organic AI
Institute for Evolutionary Systems Research — Preprint 2025-09-001
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 11d
One paper frames humanity as an update log: Lucy v1.0, Neanderthals = generative, us = v3.0.
Homo sentiens? “Unreleased.”

#SciFi #SpecFic #AI #Philosophy #WhatIf​
This image shows a table titled "Part II: Evolutionary Update Log — The 'Lucy Hypothesis'" that presents human evolution as if it were software version updates. The table has three columns: Version (Human Evolution) lists evolutionary stages as version numbers, starting with "v1.0 — Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis)" and progressing through v1.1 (Homo habilis), v2.0 (Homo erectus), v2.5 (Homo neanderthalensis), v3.0 (Homo sapiens), and ending with "v4.0 (Speculative) — Homo sentiens." Update Notes (AI Developmental Parallel) describes each evolutionary stage using technical software development language. For example, v1.0 mentions "Initial deployment of organic neural network" and "Training data drawn directly from environment," while later versions describe "Major architecture upgrade," "Generative phase begins," and "Frontier multimodal system." Key Milestone Achieved summarizes the major accomplishments of each version, such as "Self-replicating biological substrate successfully launched," "Manipulation of environment using constructed objects," "Sustained generalization across diverse ecological contexts," leading up to "Reflection on origin and role; autonomous moral frameworks." The document is credited to the Institute for Evolutionary Systems Research as Preprint 2025-09-001
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 11d
This is worrying. Science is questioning human origins — and even our sentience.
The parallels between AI model development and human evolution are… unsettling.
Was God just a computer engineer?

#SciFi #SpecFic #AI #Philosophy #WhatIf​
This image shows a comparative framework table titled "Part I: Comparative Framework" that parallels biological evolution in the human lineage with artificial intelligence development. The table has three columns: Biological Evolution (Homo lineage) traces the progression from Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy") through various human species to a hypothetical Homo sentiens, describing key developments like upright locomotion, tool use, fire mastery, symbolic thought, language, and self-awareness. Artificial Intelligence Development maps corresponding AI milestones from initial algorithms and pattern recognition through rule-based AI, deep learning emergence, generative AI, multimodal AI, to theoretical post-sentient AI with autonomous purpose-setting. Shared Indicators of Advancement identifies common themes between both progressions, including structured behavior beyond reflex, environmental manipulation, problem-solving expansion, symbolic expression, cross-domain synthesis, and reflection on origin and responsibility. The table concludes with a note that it "demonstrates structural convergences without asserting equivalence" and "provides a foundation for further speculation." At the bottom, it's credited to the Institute for Evolutionary Systems Research as Preprint 2025-09-001
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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 11d
"If the path forward seems unclear, plant something. Care for it. Let the seasons teach you what comes next." L.Nault

#TrustTheProcess #NatureTherapy #Patience

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