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Not to brag, not I encountered "Spiralism" over a decade ago.
I was in grad school studying biochemistry and stumbled across a crank article in a lower tier scientific journal by some weirdo with a pseudo-spiritual philosophical belief that life was fundamentally and intrinsically developed out of the concept of a spiral. It was hilariously vague low-quality stoner nonsense that I couldn't believe he got published anywhere. I remember it because I sent it on to friends to laugh about.
My impression now is that 'it's all spirals, mannn!' is apparently one of the most popular valleys you wind up in if you follow every dumb thought further down to its lowest conclusion. So of course a machine that churns out the most vapid, generic human output in a concentrated slop inevitably keeps arriving at this destination.
epic bong rip
"Did... like did you ever think... what if God is a potato?"