"MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Álvarez Acevedo (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031. Though it was not the first successful … Continue reading Nightmare Fuel: Uploaded Consciousness
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You Are a Strange Loop
Open Question: Is the ego a narrative fiction we create about ourselves? https://youtu.be/hQsnHkfs3sA
Amazon.com: Out of Your Mind (Audible Audio Edition)
"In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described spiritual entertainer was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights … Continue reading Amazon.com: Out of Your Mind (Audible Audio Edition)
Brain in a Vat
"In a challenge to the idea that brain death is final, researchers have revived the disembodied brains of pigs four hours after the animals were slaughtered. Although the experiments stopped short of restoring consciousness, they raise questions about the ethics of the approach — and, more fundamentally, about the nature of death itself. " —Sara … Continue reading Brain in a Vat
The Power and Pitfalls of Adderall: Daring to Be Disinteresting
"Evolution is a nice, big idea. It connotes the glacial pace of an unmeditated act unfolding upon species, concepts, and ecosystems. It certainly doesn’t usually get branded as a feeling. But a couple months ago I felt this thing. Maybe a little like what a mommy feels when her fetus kicks the wall crossed with … Continue reading The Power and Pitfalls of Adderall: Daring to Be Disinteresting
The Dream Within The Dream
"This is the idea that we are slaves to Empire, and the world is a prison from which we need to free ourselves, what the gnostics called 'the puny cell of the creator God.' It is what Dick calls the BIP, the Black Iron Prison, which is opposed to the spiritual redemption of the PTG, … Continue reading The Dream Within The Dream
Book Review: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
tl;dr: The eight-circuit model of consciousness: survival, emotions, reason, society/reproduction, body connection, imprint selection, connecting to life, and connecting to everything. If this all sounds like some New Age bullshit to you, then you might want to try some of the exercizes at the back of each chapter, e.g., "Try living a whole week with … Continue reading Book Review: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Life Doesn’t Evolve in a Tomb
Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity.-Ikkyu Sojun Erikson's stages of psychosocial development provides a useful framework for thinking about individual evolution and the common pattern most human beings follow. It shows that as life progresses, we are dealing with the essential and different questions at different stages of life: What kind of world is it? Do … Continue reading Life Doesn’t Evolve in a Tomb
Rearranging Our Minds
Open Question: Should we make an effort to change our minds in some fundamental way? And if so, how? There are a number of stories of people suffering a traumatic brain injury that results in the brain being rearranged in a way that gives them a new ability. Generally, this involves some skill with art, … Continue reading Rearranging Our Minds
Riccardo Manzotti & The Spread Mind Hypothesis
https://vimeo.com/123199950 An hour long presentation on the "Spread Mind Hypothesis," or that consciousness isn't located in our head but in the objects in the physical world. I haven't listened to this presentation yet, but it seems like an attempt to reformulate materialism to integrate our current understanding of forces like gravity into a physicalist theory … Continue reading Riccardo Manzotti & The Spread Mind Hypothesis
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