primordial soup

noun

Definitions

  1. The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the…

    The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.

  2. A collection of ideas or objects that become refined over time.

    • While the number of ideas floating in this primordial soup is quite large , only a few ever receive serious consideration.
    • Freud would place in this primordial soup Eros and Thanatos, the tensions between life and death instincts; Jung would stress identification with universal archetypes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for primordial soup. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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