The Teleomorph » language

Anonymous

Evan 057 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:27 +0000

According to the theory portrayed in the recent film ‘Anonymous’, Shakespeare was essentially the 17th century’s Wikileaks. Great movie… but it is not the Shakespeare theory I contend to. There are many theories regarding who the original author of the Shakespearian works was. Anyone who actually cares enough to look into the matter agrees that it was certainly not the actor from Stratford-on-Avon, however, no consensus has been reached with regards to whom the actual author was, or ‘were’ as the case may be. But even though I do not hold the position put forth by this new Roland Emmerich film, I was still sincerely impressed by the script and performances.

IMDB: Anonymous

The First World [Electric Sheep Comix is back!]

Evan 057 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:44:23 +0000

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:

http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/delta/firstword/

Terence McKenna – Time Acceleration

Evan 057 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:23:01 +0000

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TM quote

Evan 057 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:47:39 +0000

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects.

-Terence McKenna

Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Evan 057 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:38:16 +0000

One 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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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. ~

Visual brain activity reconstructed using fMRI and Youtube

Evan 057 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:55:18 +0000

This was the technology portrayed in the 6th season episode of House entitled Black Hole.

The potential of it is staggering.

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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

StONeD aPe ThEOrY

Evan 057 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:51:06 +0000

This is a clip from Duncan Trussell’s Comedy Central Pilot “Thunderbrain.”

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TEDxPSU – Richard Doyle – Scaling the Noösphere

Evan 057 — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:41:48 +0000

This 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.

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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.

The birth of a word

Evan 057 — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:52:05 +0000

Wow.

Incredibly beautiful (and unsettling) statistical visualizations in this jaw-dropping presentation with extensive implications.

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The Mystery of Change

Evan 057 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:35:53 +0000

A short film with narration by Alan Watts and music by Sigur Rós.

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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.