"Our brain's fascinating role: It orchestrates a captivating simulation that drives our physical body to ensure the well-being of trillions of cells, around 30 to 40 trillion to be exact. It's like our own mini-Matrix, steering us towards vital actions for the nourishment of this vast cellular community. The power of the mind in action! #BrainWonders #MatrixOfLife"
Recent reactions to this AI-related post have been tapping in fear and loathing. While the apprehension around this powerful tool is real, it's essential to remember that AI is not a harbinger of doom but rather, a beacon of opportunity. Today, AI is enabling us to shape our reality, to bring our desires to fruition, with an ease and precision unprecedented in human history.
AI is an ally in our journey, an enabler that offers us a choice - to spend less time on tasks we loathe and invest more in what we truly love. Now, more than ever, is the time to tap into our deepest aspirations and envision the future we yearn for. Because whether we like it or not, the future is rushing toward us at breakneck speed. It's an incredible opportunity, but one that requires our active participation.
We are the architects of our destiny. You possess all the tools and knowledge within yourself to overcome any obstacle, to extricate yourself from the sticky web of illusions that this world weaves. No external entity can liberate you - only you have the key to your own emancipation. It all boils down to one pivotal decision - prioritizing your freedom over your fear. So let's embrace this incredible tool we have and shape our future with intent and passion.
1977 Philip K Dick said we are living in a computer simulation: "people claim to remember past lives I claim to remember a different present life we are living in computer-programmed reality" -Philip K Dick, 1977
Terrence McKenna once hinted at a profound truth: In a world where 'normal' keeps shifting, our anchor is the self-knowledge gained through meditation, martial arts, or any practice that unveils our core. When everything melts away, knowing who you truly are keeps you uncrushed.
There is some compelling content out there. I've been binging Terrence Mckenna. Always thought he was a crazy drug addled hippy, well I guess he was, but despite that he was prescient : If you are into AI and the singularity, the follow is fascinating , starting around minute 20 "Information is more primary than time and space, more primary than light and electromagnetism. Information is the stuff of being. It's all you will ever know, it's all you can ever know. The rest are ghostly hypotheses to explain the behavior and the presence of information. And it's almost as though it has a syntactical life of its own. It's almost as though it's a virtual life form of some sort that is running on a primate platform." -- Terence M kenna 032-Terence McKenna “In the Valley of Novelty” (Part 6) by Lorenzo on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/jQenk1daA7cH9d986
Best PKD I’ve so far for me.:
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Flirts with many deep ideas.
Just flirts because I don’t think even PKD knew or understood what he was writing about, but it comes so close to clarity on such deep to topics
* Reality vs illusion
* Technology and transcendence
* Godhood through tech
* Identity erosion
* Escapism vs responsibility
* Man vs machine
So in many ways, the novel is prescient in its sober speculation about topics like augmented and virtual realities, transhumanism, and the philosophical impacts of major technological change.
If you’ve ever wondered where the ideas for the matrix came from this sounds like the closest thing I’ve heard of it from the variable PKD
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick
VALIS is a work of art.
I never liked PKDs writings and cringed at the pulp culture and writing style of stilted characters, that were part of of my geeky uncomfortable youth, but VALIS goes full board coming out the far side so complex, and twisted that it is a testament to human creativity and imagination.
Just finished reading it for the second time. I understood about 1/3 of it the first time which gave me plenty to think about for years. This time I understood about 2/3s. Understanding the extra 30% blew my mind. I'll have to re-read it again in a couple years when maybe I can understand it all!
It is a lot of work to be god.
One can only be
the experiencer
or
the director
If you are the story teller , what story would you tell?
What partner would you create?
How interesting is the story you would / could tell ?
what with stands the test of time ?
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
― Terence McKenna
These videos are true works of art. Art, however, is subjective, and not all pieces may resonate with everyone. As adults, we have the freedom to choose what we engage with. It's important to remember that unless someone is physically coercing or exerting power over you, crossing boundaries is a result of allowing them to be crossed. Let's embrace our autonomy as adults and curate our own experiences.
Terence Mckenna
"The great evil, in my humble opinion, which haunts our enterprise, and I say this realizing I'm setting the fox among the chickens... The great evil that has been allowed to flourish in the absence of mathematical understanding is relativism. And what is relativism? It's the idea that there is no distinction between shit and Shinola, that all ideas are somehow operating on equal footing. So one person is a Chaos Theorist, another is a follower of the revelations of this or that New Age guru, someone else is channeling information from the Pleiades, and we have been taught that political correctness demands that we treat all these things with equal weight. Because we have no mathematical ability, no logical ability, we don't know how to ask the questions that expose some positions as preposterous, trivial, insulting to the intelligence, and unworthy of repetition. We all are very comfortable bashing science and flailing away at that, but that isn't our enemy. Science is capable of undertaking its own reformation and critique, and has been engaged in that fairly vigorously for some time. The enemy that will really subvert the enterprise of building a world based on clarity is the belief that we cannot point out the pernicious forms of idiocy that flourish in our own community. And this problem is going, growing worse all the time. Just pick up a copy of Magical Blend or Shaman's Drum and you'll discover an appeal to the level of intellect that makes what's going on with television advertising look like a meeting of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study. We have tolerated too many loose heads in our community. We are not willing to take on the karma involved in argument and discourse that actually gores somebody's ox, so that at the end of the day iridology or Mormonism or some other form of institutionally supported foolishness lies in shreads on the floor. We consider this politically incorrect. I can feel the tension in this room because people sense I might gore their particular ox. If we had learned mathematical logic, or reason, or rules of evidence, when someone approaches us, excited to inform us that the ruins of Lemuria have been spotted in the deep sea off Big Sur or something like that, we would be able to respond to that with the contempt it deserves. I had a conversation about this recently with someone who, if I had to describe their job category, I would describe them as mafiosa, and I said, "What do you think of the abduction phenomenon?" and without hesitation this person said, "There are just so many foolish people in the world." And to me, all of these things are intelligence tests, and the people who pass the intelligence test are not worrying about pro bono proctologists from other star systems showing up unannounced in their bedrooms. We have perfected politeness, we have perfected the ability to listen to damn foolishness, without betraying by so much as the flick of an eyebrow that we realize what we're in the presence of. Now I think it's time to refine our mathematical skills, learn to think straight, and not be afraid to denounce the pernicious forms of foolishness, which are vitiating the energies of our community and making us appear marginal and absurd in the discourse about truly transforming society.
Everybody is going to become their own director
Terence McKenna The Medium Of IMAGE In The Human Mind
"A human life is an experiment in planes of consciousness. Incarnation tests our ability to remember who we are, to remember that we’re also souls and that we don’t have to get so caught up in the storyline we’re living out. We can be open to all of it - including growing old, suffering, death, everything. The game, as I see it, is ultimately to become one with Awareness - to just be, without any defining boundaries, without any conceptual structures. And the conceptual structure that’s hardest to shed is the 'I' - meaning somebody separate from everything else."
Happy Birthday, Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The most intelligent beings I have ever met are plants, so why shouldn't I eat meat?"
- Terence McKenna
Nobody is in control
Terence McKenna
The perfect tool when it arrives ends the historical process which was the tool making process.
Terence McKenna - A Completely Original Idea
"We are headed into a dream, either after virtual reality, death dream, nano cyber technological dream or pharmaco-shamanic dream … we are going to live in the imagination"
Terence McKenna - A Completely Original Idea
"Truly religious people always make jokes about their religion; their faith is so strong that they can afford it. Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe."
- Alan Watts
We are building a super organism and do not know where we fit in.
Terence McKenna The Medium Of IMAGE In The Human Mind
2012 end of time
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:
“The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.” – from “The Evolution of Chastity,” in Toward the Future, 1936, XI, 86-87
"I see the universe as a communion of subjects, and this communion as tending towards a maximum of union, a kind of super-consciousness."
"The Omega Point is the finalizing pole of the universe, where complexity reaches its maximum."
"Man is not the center of the universe but rather the arrow that points the way to the Omega Point."
Who on 𝕏 talks about self-organization, Teilhard de Chardin, Heinz von Foerster, Ilya Prigogine, or the Gaia hypothesis?
Gizmodo
Philip K. Dick On Fine-Tuning Your B.S.-Meter To Spot "Pseudo-Realities"
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Charlie Jane Anders
PublishedFebruary 25, 2015
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How can you tell what's real, in a world where huge industries, governments and religions are all trying to force-feed you manufactured realities? Philip K. Dick sums up the challenges of detecting reality in a world that resembles Disneyland, in this great 1978 quote.
It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question "What is reality?", to someday get an answer. This was the hope of most of my readers, too. Years passed. I wrote over thirty novels and over a hundred stories, and still I could not figure out what was real. One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." That's all I could come up with. That was back in 1972. Since then I haven't been able to define reality any more lucidly.But the problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into the heads of the reader, the viewer, the listener. Sometimes when I watch my eleven-year-old daughter watch TV, I wonder what she is being taught. The problem of miscuing; consider that. A TV program produced for adults is viewed by a small child. Half of what is said and done in the TV drama is probably misunderstood by the child. Maybe it's all misunderstood. And the thing is, Just how authentic is the information anyhow, even if the child correctly understood it? What is the relationship between the average TV situation comedy to reality? What about the cop shows? Cars are continually swerving out of control, crashing, and catching fire. The police are always good and they always win. Do not ignore that point: The police always win. What a lesson that is. You should not fight authority, and even if you do, you will lose. The message here is, Be passive. And—cooperate. If Officer Baretta asks you for information, give it to him, because Officer Beratta is a good man and to be trusted. He loves you, and you should love him.So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem. I have a secret love of chaos. There should be more of it. Do not believe—and I am dead serious when I say this—do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.Of course, I would say this, because I live near Disneyland, and they are always adding new rides and destroying old ones. Disneyland is an evolving organism. For years they had the Lincoln Simulacrum, like Lincoln himself, was only a temporary form which matter and energy take and then lose. The same is true of each of us, like it or not.
and hre is a video I'll leave with of someone talking to an AI version of Terence Mckenna speaking in his voice and everything:
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