After a ten year hiatus, Electric Sheep Comix returns with a stunning new addition to the psychedelic web-strip Delta from artist Patrick Farley, this one portraying McKenna’s ‘stoned ape theory’. [NSFW]
Get’s really exquisite about 2/3 into it:
The First World [Electric Sheep Comix is back!]
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Terence McKenna – Time Acceleration
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TM quote
12 10 2011We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects.
-Terence McKenna
<3
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Categories : language, poetry, technology
Bleeding Heart Libertarians
6 10 2011One of the most elucidating introductions to the “intellectual traditions” of libertarianism I’ve ever heard. Very thought-provoking and concise. Highly recommended if you’re interested in politics or non-politics.
Interesting how the individual and the collective form a spectrum. And that is where all form and pattern originates. Between the particles and the waves. ~
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Visual brain activity reconstructed using fMRI and Youtube
23 09 2011This was the technology portrayed in the 6th season episode of House entitled Black Hole.
The potential of it is staggering.
From description:
The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject’s brain activity and a library of 18 million seconds of random YouTube video. (In brief, the algorithm processes each of the 18 million clips through the brain model, and identifies the clips that would have produced brain activity as similar to the measured brain activity as possible. The clips used to fit the model, those used to test the model and those used to reconstruct the stimulus were entirely separate.) Brain activity was sampled every one second, and each one-second section of the viewed movie was reconstructed separately.
For a related video see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMA23JJ1M1o
For more information about this work, please check our lab web site:http://gallantlab.org
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StONeD aPe ThEOrY
18 09 2011This is a clip from Duncan Trussell’s Comedy Central Pilot “Thunderbrain.”
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TEDxPSU – Richard Doyle – Scaling the Noösphere
11 06 2011This is a TEDx presentation given by my favorite scholar of the rhetoric of biochemistry and post-vital living, Richard Doyle, about the importance of developing our conceptions of the noösphere.
Currently I’m reading his newest scholarly book concerning his ecodelic hypotheses about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies, Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere.
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The birth of a word
15 03 2011Wow.
Incredibly beautiful (and unsettling) statistical visualizations in this jaw-dropping presentation with extensive implications.
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The Mystery of Change
11 03 2011A short film with narration by Alan Watts and music by Sigur Rós.
In an online thread about about death, consciousness and DMT, Robert Forte told this story:
18 years ago I was trying to get my five year old son to say some cute and profound thing so i asked him what he thought happens when you die.“i don’t want to talk about it,” he said.“oh come on,” i said, ”its going to happen to everyone. what do you think happens?”“Dad,” he said firmly, ”i don’t want to talk about it.”I said, ”its nothing to be afraid of.”“Dad,” he said, nearly shouting. ”I don’t even want to think about it.”“but why not?” i asked.“Because i want it to be a surprise.”
Yugen.
:)
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Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?
3 03 2011Here is another informative, insightful and entertaining talk filled with fascinating data from Dr. Sapolsky, Stanford neurologist and primatologist.
[original FORA.tv upload.]
Other recommended Sapolsky lectures include:
‘Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences’
‘The Neurobiology of Primate Sexuality’: Part 1 [Part 2]
and more excellent lectures can be found here.
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tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle
1 02 2011Incredibly impressive reading of Dr. Seuss’ toungue twisting poem, Fox In Socks:
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Timothy Leary – Chemical Languages
23 01 2011Dr. Leary: a brilliant and profound thinker and gifted speaker and communicator. Just listen to this phenomenal 9 minute rant:
If you’re still hungry for more Leary, check out this video about his life including some funny interview footage from his last days:
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