Spinal Catastrophism by Thomas Moynihan

“Life luxuriantly invests in itself, reaching a pinnacle in the centralized nervous system, only as a mean to proliferate, prolong, and variegate its dominion of death; so, to live, to be an anticipatory system, to collapse into feedforward control, to become chronoceptive, is merely to prolong and extend the scope and sentence of one’s neurulated suffering. Evolution is the engine for pain-optimization. A cerebrospinal system is just way for suffering to feel itself.”

-Thomas Moynihan, 2019