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The Rise and Fall of the Naked Mole-Rats — CORTEX COLLECTIVEArtist rendition of the Cube’s first words
The Rise and Fall of the Naked Mole-Rats — CORTEX COLLECTIVEFragment from Christopher Flores’ Diary
The Rise and Fall of the Naked Mole-Rats — CORTEX COLLECTIVEWas there some kind of mold, she wondered dully, for all life in the universe? Why was it so easy for her to understand this creature, to recognize its teeth, its lungs, the locations of its veins? Why was it born with a beating heart? Maybe, Daphne thought, every kind of life that ever tripped into the universe was fundamentally the same. A blood-sucked parasite, a fractal of murderers and victims.
The Goodbye — CORTEX COLLECTIVEIn the distance, tucked between two stars, Daphne could see the Earth.
The Goodbye — CORTEX COLLECTIVELungs. She was inside the lungs of a gigantic beast.
The Goodbye — CORTEX COLLECTIVEEcosystems are made up of individuals and their choices. The behavior of the collective emerges organically from the local rules that individuals abide by, that they choose themselves
The Surgeon — CORTEX COLLECTIVEa slim metal tool whose name I did not know into his open skull, the nearby machines let out shrieks of higher and higher frequency,
The Surgeon — CORTEX COLLECTIVE