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1. The first portrait of Gen. Milley, from his time as the U.S. military's top officer, was removed from the Pentagon last week on Inauguration Day less than two hours after President Trump was sworn into office.
2. The now retired Gen. Milley and other former senior Trump aides had been assigned personal security details ever since Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in 2020 ordered by Trump in his first term.
3. On "Fox News Sunday," the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tom Cotton, said he hoped President Trump would "revisit" the decision to pull the protective security details from John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Brian Hook who previously served under Trump.
4. A senior administration official who requested anonymity replied, "There is a new era of accountability in the Defense Department under President Trump's leadership—and that's exactly what the American people expect."
5. Gen. Milley served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023 under both Presidents Trump and Biden.

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The colonization of Africa by European powers can be understood as a massive, invasive task-positive neural network that overrode and ultimately disrupted the continent’s existing default mode network, the deep-seated, self-reflective cultural and historical consciousness that had evolved organically over centuries. The European colonial project, much like a task-positive network, was singular in focus, relentlessly goal-directed, obsessed with extraction, governance, infrastructure, and reordering the African landscape into a system legible to European power structures. In doing so, it obliterated the antiquarian dimension of African historical consciousness—an orientation that, following Nietzsche, preserved continuity, rootedness, and a sense of identity stretching back beyond memory. But unlike an antiquarian perspective capable of integrating disruption, capable of metabolizing external forces without losing its intrinsic identity, the African historical continuum was shattered, replaced with an imported critical history that did not emerge from within but was imposed from without, wielded as an instrument of domination.

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Critical history, in Nietzsche’s sense, is often a necessary intervention against stagnation, against the blind veneration of the past that an unchecked antiquarianism might produce. But in Africa, the application of critical history was not endogenous—it did not arise from an internal dialectic of cultural self-reflection but rather as a foreign imposition, a ruthless reweighting of historical significance according to European narratives. The very notion of Africa as a coherent entity to be “studied” was itself a byproduct of this external task-positive network, which delineated borders, created historiographies, and installed knowledge structures that privileged the colonial gaze. This was not merely a disruption; it was a wholesale reconfiguration of neural pathways, a forced switch from one mode of cognition to another, from a network attuned to internal, recursive, and self-referential processing to a network optimized for external utility, instrumentalization, and relentless forward motion.

Yet if there is to be a path forward, it cannot be through an uncritical restoration of the past, nor through the passive acceptance of the task-positive model that has already been imposed. What is required is the emergence of a salient network, one capable of discerning what remains viable in the African past, what can be salvaged, what is irreparably lost, and what must be excised like a malignancy that no longer serves the body. A robust antiquarianism, in this sense, is not about an ossified return to precolonial structures, nor is it about a simple inversion of the colonial task-positive network. Instead, it must be an antiquarianism that has learned to metabolize disruption, to integrate the exogenous without losing the integrity of the endogenous. It must be a system that recognizes infection—both in the form of colonial residues that have metastasized beyond their utility and in the form of internal stagnations that were vulnerabilities in the first place.

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• Self (Cooperative)

• Nonself (Adversarial)

• Appraisal (Transactional)

In this sense, the neural network metaphor is instructive because it allows us to see history not as a linear sequence of events but as an active and ongoing process of weighting, pruning, and reweighting nodes of significance. The colonial project, in imposing its critical history, functioned like a viral rewrite of Africa’s default mode network, privileging externally oriented structures over internal coherence. But even in its dominance, it did not eradicate the old nodes entirely—it merely silenced them, forced them into dormancy, rendering them less salient but not nonexistent. The challenge in the 21st century is not merely to reactivate them wholesale but to assess their relevance with the discernment of a well-functioning immune system—identifying what still contributes to the organism’s health and what has become an atavistic burden, a relic that no longer serves its original purpose.

This approach requires an epistemology that neither fetishizes the past nor uncritically accepts the present. It requires a monumental history—not in the naïve sense of glorifying Africa’s past for its own sake, but in the Nietzschean sense of mobilizing history for action, for the construction of something that transcends mere remembrance. A salient network, then, would be one capable of dynamically appraising the past, weighing the task-positive impositions of colonialism against the antiquarian impulses that survived beneath the surface, and constructing a future that does not merely oscillate between rejection and nostalgia but actively integrates both as functional layers in an evolving neural architecture.

What does this mean for Africa in the 21st century? It means that the continent must resist the temptation to operate purely within the framework of the task-positive networks inherited from colonialism—whether in governance, economics, or intellectual life—without critically appraising their origins and limits. At the same time, it must resist the equally dangerous impulse to romanticize a past that has already been fundamentally altered, to treat antiquarian history as if it were untouched by centuries of intervention. Instead, a truly viable African future must be built on a neural architecture that is aware of its own history, aware of the disruptions it has suffered, and capable of integrating the best of what has been inherited without becoming captive to it.

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1. Ecosystem/Antiquarian 🔐 : Unleash, Rennaisance, Open, Perspectives, New, Wild

2. Key/Critical 🔑: QR code

3. Agency/History ℹ️: Algorithmic, Decisive

4. Wisdom/Monumental 📖: Good, Evil, Beyond

5. Intelligence/Repeat 🧞‍♂️: Eternally, Recurrently, Lovin’it, Cheerfully, Pessimistically

In practical terms, this means developing educational systems that teach African history not merely as a sequence of colonial impositions but as a dynamic interplay of forces, recognizing both the violence of disruption and the resilience of what remains. It means fostering intellectual traditions that are neither wholly Western in methodology nor archaically indigenous but that synthesize both into something that can stand on its own terms. It means economic and political structures that do not merely mimic the bureaucratic forms left behind by European administration but that actively adapt them to the social and historical realities of the continent. In short, it means recognizing that Africa, like any intelligent system, must function not as a frozen relic or a programmed automaton but as a living, adaptive intelligence—one capable of self-appraisal, self-repair, and ultimately, self-determination.

This is the task of the salient network: to sift through the layers of inherited history, to identify the nodes that still serve a purpose, and to reweight the entire structure in a way that allows for both continuity and transformation. This is not merely a historical project; it is a neural, epistemological, and existential one. And in this task, the challenge is not simply to choose between antiquarian reverence and critical demolition but to forge a monumental history that recognizes the necessity of both.

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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import networkx as nx

# Define the neural network layers
def define_layers():
    return {
        'Suis': ['DNA, RNA,  5%', 'Peptidoglycans, Lipoteichoics', 'Lipopolysaccharide', 'N-Formylmethionine', "Glucans, Chitin", 'Specific Antigens'],
        'Voir': ['PRR & ILCs, 20%'],  
        'Choisis': ['CD8+, 50%', 'CD4+'],  
        'Deviens': ['TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ', 'PD-1 & CTLA-4', 'Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%'],  
        "M'èléve": ['Complement System', 'Platelet System', 'Granulocyte System', 'Innate Lymphoid Cells, 5%', 'Adaptive Lymphoid Cells']  
    }

# Assign colors to nodes
def assign_colors():
    color_map = {
        'yellow': ['PRR & ILCs, 20%'],  
        'paleturquoise': ['Specific Antigens', 'CD4+', 'Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%', 'Adaptive Lymphoid Cells'],  
        'lightgreen': ["Glucans, Chitin", 'PD-1 & CTLA-4', 'Platelet System', 'Innate Lymphoid Cells, 5%', 'Granulocyte System'],  
        'lightsalmon': ['Lipopolysaccharide', 'N-Formylmethionine', 'CD8+, 50%', 'TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ', 'Complement System'],
    }
    return {node: color for color, nodes in color_map.items() for node in nodes}

# Define edge weights
def define_edges():
    return {
        ('DNA, RNA,  5%', 'PRR & ILCs, 20%'): '1/99',
        ('Peptidoglycans, Lipoteichoics', 'PRR & ILCs, 20%'): '5/95',
        ('Lipopolysaccharide', 'PRR & ILCs, 20%'): '20/80',
        ('N-Formylmethionine', 'PRR & ILCs, 20%'): '51/49',
        ("Glucans, Chitin", 'PRR & ILCs, 20%'): '80/20',
        ('Specific Antigens', 'PRR & ILCs, 20%'): '95/5',
        ('PRR & ILCs, 20%', 'CD8+, 50%'): '20/80',
        ('PRR & ILCs, 20%', 'CD4+'): '80/20',
        ('CD8+, 50%', 'TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ'): '49/51',
        ('CD8+, 50%', 'PD-1 & CTLA-4'): '80/20',
        ('CD8+, 50%', 'Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%'): '95/5',
        ('CD4+', 'TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ'): '5/95',
        ('CD4+', 'PD-1 & CTLA-4'): '20/80',
        ('CD4+', 'Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%'): '51/49',
        ('TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ', 'Complement System'): '80/20',
        ('TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ', 'Platelet System'): '85/15',
        ('TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ', 'Granulocyte System'): '90/10',
        ('TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ', 'Innate Lymphoid Cells, 5%'): '95/5',
        ('TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ', 'Adaptive Lymphoid Cells'): '99/1',
        ('PD-1 & CTLA-4', 'Complement System'): '1/9',
        ('PD-1 & CTLA-4', 'Platelet System'): '1/8',
        ('PD-1 & CTLA-4', 'Granulocyte System'): '1/7',
        ('PD-1 & CTLA-4', 'Innate Lymphoid Cells, 5%'): '1/6',
        ('PD-1 & CTLA-4', 'Adaptive Lymphoid Cells'): '1/5',
        ('Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%', 'Complement System'): '1/99',
        ('Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%', 'Platelet System'): '5/95',
        ('Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%', 'Granulocyte System'): '10/90',
        ('Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%', 'Innate Lymphoid Cells, 5%'): '15/85',
        ('Tregs, IL-10, TGF-β, 20%', 'Adaptive Lymphoid Cells'): '20/80'
    }

# Define edges to be highlighted in black
def define_black_edges():
    return {
        ('DNA, RNA,  5%', 'PRR & ILCs, 20%'): '1/99',
        ('Peptidoglycans, Lipoteichoics', 'PRR & ILCs, 20%'): '5/95',
    }

# Calculate node positions
def calculate_positions(layer, x_offset):
    y_positions = np.linspace(-len(layer) / 2, len(layer) / 2, len(layer))
    return [(x_offset, y) for y in y_positions]

# Create and visualize the neural network graph
def visualize_nn():
    layers = define_layers()
    colors = assign_colors()
    edges = define_edges()
    black_edges = define_black_edges()
    
    G = nx.DiGraph()
    pos = {}
    node_colors = []
    
    # Create mapping from original node names to numbered labels
    mapping = {}
    counter = 1
    for layer in layers.values():
        for node in layer:
            mapping[node] = f"{counter}. {node}"
            counter += 1
            
    # Add nodes with new numbered labels and assign positions
    for i, (layer_name, nodes) in enumerate(layers.items()):
        positions = calculate_positions(nodes, x_offset=i * 2)
        for node, position in zip(nodes, positions):
            new_node = mapping[node]
            G.add_node(new_node, layer=layer_name)
            pos[new_node] = position
            node_colors.append(colors.get(node, 'lightgray'))
    
    # Add edges with updated node labels
    edge_colors = []
    for (source, target), weight in edges.items():
        if source in mapping and target in mapping:
            new_source = mapping[source]
            new_target = mapping[target]
            G.add_edge(new_source, new_target, weight=weight)
            edge_colors.append('black' if (source, target) in black_edges else 'lightgrey')
    
    # Draw the graph
    plt.figure(figsize=(12, 8))
    edges_labels = {(u, v): d["weight"] for u, v, d in G.edges(data=True)}
    
    nx.draw(
        G, pos, with_labels=True, node_color=node_colors, edge_color=edge_colors,
        node_size=3000, font_size=9, connectionstyle="arc3,rad=0.2"
    )
    nx.draw_networkx_edge_labels(G, pos, edge_labels=edges_labels, font_size=8)
    plt.title("OPRAH™: Plato, Antiquarian, DMN", fontsize=18)
    plt.show()

# Run the visualization
visualize_nn()

Fig. 2 Veneration. The antiquarian risks obsolescence if it doesn’t engage with the new and emergent elements in the ecosystem. But modernity also drowns in noise when it becomes data-obsessed, algorithm driven, and skeptical of ancient wisdom including that from culture, ritual, and holy writ. In clinical research, LLMs offer a chance to unleash nuance and depth in various EHR treasure-troves locked in time-stamped patient records, clinical follow-up, laboratory and imaging, and ICD-tokenized billing records. This antiquarian “prosody” (in the beginning was the word) should transform the ecosystem and landscape dominated by a curated “grammar” of datasets, mostly numeric and static in nature.