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#Comment: Many of the (philosophical) musings of the contemporary "high priests of reality" (physicists, mathematicians etc.), such as "the Anthropic Principle" (see this intro video by Sabine Hossenfelder: "Is the Anthropic Principle scientific?") would make for truly great absurd comedy - if only such people would learn to not take themselves and everything else so very serious (great minds with even greater egos) and laugh far more often: Hairless monkeys which just recently developed language, convinced that they can "understand and predict everything", by compressing the totality of unfolded (infinite) existence into their tiny (finite) brains - pure paradoxical grand comedy! The "theory of everything" fairy-tales of religious traditions at least focus on practical things like rituals, aesthetics, art, ethics and culture (sensing that life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.) - which is overall lacking in today's science cult-ure.
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What is Information? - Interview with Peter Tse
More talks by Peter Tse:
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From Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning", developer of Logotherapy (slides)
According to Frankl, "We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering" and that "everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances"
Documentary: Viktor Frankl und trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen (DE only)
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"Implicate and explicate order" are ontological concepts for quantum theory coined by theoretical physicist David Bohm during the early 1980s.
Book: Science, Order, and Creativity by David Bohm and F. David Peat (1987).
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Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (wikipedia)
"The Encyclopedia was started in 1972 and now comprises more than 100,000 entries and 700,000 links, as well as 500 pages of introductory notes and commentaries. The Encyclopedia collects information on problems, strategies, values, concepts of human development, and various intellectual resources."
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Laetus in Praesens: https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/
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"Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn't actually exist. All experience is happening at once." -Albert Einstein
Time measurement unites (via World Encyclopedia of Time)
Hindu units of time - "from microseconds to Trillions of years".
Back to the future: The original time crystal makes a comeback: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/back-future-original-time-crystal-makes-comeback
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"I am life wanting to live with life that wants to live." - Albert Schweitzer
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"Anything not specifically forbidden is mandatory. Which means, if it's possible, it's probable." - Merlin
"Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainly is a ridiculous one" - Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
#Comment: Assorted high weirdness, which in all its colorful "out-there-ness" is by and large more fun and sane than most of the current mainstream post-humanist AI cyborg science extremism. Valid or not, it is certainly thought provoking "post-materialist age" entertainment - enjoy!
- DARK OPS - Clandestine Explorations in Chapel Perilous - by Iona Miller
- Techno Telepathy - ESP INDUCTION through Self-Hypnosis - by Richard Alan Miller
- Quantum Bioholography - A Review of the Field - by Richard Alan Miller
- Quantum Bioholography - by Iona Miller, Richard A. Miller, Burt Webb
- Holonomic brain theory - Wikipedia
- Quantum biology - Wikipedia
- Embryonic Holography - by Richard Alan Miller
- Tao of Resilience - by Peggy Southwick & Iona Miller
- Stealth was His Name & Mission - by Iona Miller
- The Art of Inquiry - by Iona Miller
- The fog of lore: ancestral memories? do the math & get over it - By Iona Miller
- Mind control for dummies - Iona Miller
- Synthetic telepathy and the early mind wars - by Richard Alan Miller
- Schumann's Resonances & Human Psychobiology - by Iona Miller & Richard Alan Miller
- EVP - Remote Viewing the Future - by Iona Miller
- Chaos as the universal solvent - by Iona Miller
- The diamond body: a solid state mandala - by Richard and Iona Miller (1981)
- Holographic Archetypes - DNA - by Iona Miller
- Collected writing of E. Stanton Maxey, M.D.
- A Review of Psi Activity in the DNA - by Bradley Y. Bartholomew
- How To Build A Psychotronic Generator
- The Global Consciousness Project - Meaningful Correlations in Random Data
- Manifesto of the Matrix City Ra and The law of the Temple RA - by Dr. Irene Caesar.
- Laser Polarized Bioholography as a Diffraction of Geometric Optics with Chromosomes.
- Spiritual Implications of Parapsychology - interview with Charles T. Tart.
- https://augtellez.wordpress.com/
- Paranoia Magazine
CONSPIRITUALITY - Compassionate Intelligence Activity.
An essay by Iona Miller (original text here)SpyCoSomatix: People's actions are strongly influenced by their knowledge and beliefs. They can be manipulated by corrupting their knowledge base, warping historical truth, or ignoring it completely and spinning compelling new myths of consensus reality. This is mind control aimed at crowd control and exploitation.
"To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle." -- George Orwell
CHAOS & CONTROL
Uncertainty is the zeitgeist of our day. We are anxious and unsure. We face potentially catastrophic climatic and environmental change, incurable viruses, pandemics, bioterrorism, endless wars, urban violence, soil and water depletion. Rampant population growth, genetically-engineered food and organisms, and hazardous waste raise profound doubts about Earth's ability to sustain life.
Many species are already going extinct at the rate of 5000 per year. We wonder about own own and our grandchildren's futures, health, and well-being. Mourning the loss of our freedoms, we feel the impact as loss of our cherished dreams for a better future.
Society itself, changes in unpredictable ways, including through human frailty or perversity, such as crime and war. Political figures, in particular have the ability to affect great masses of people with their policies and dictates. How we mediate and ameliorate these societal disruptions is a major part of our personal stories, and the story of humanity, in general.
We did not anticipate this transition from the arrogant certainty of the rational enlightenment promise of techno-utopia to disquieting uncertainty. We have realized only empty promises of solutions to life's fundamental problems, such as world health, food, and peace. Despite all our knowledge we have not been able to control or dominate our environment successfully. Knowledge is not wisdom, or even understanding. We need to recognize our innate spirituality. By changing our internal image of reality, we can change the world. There is a deeper current in life and it is embodied in Mystery-- the unpredictable, the unknown, and perhaps unknowable.
THE BIG PICTURE
The Long War is an Intelligence War. We can all participate in more intelligent intelligence. It doesn't belong exclusively to the apostles of the cult of intelligence. Personally and collectively, Intelligence involves information collection and analysis. It helps us determine The Big Picture by synthesizing the forces at play in the world today so we can make prudent decisions about the future of our security.
ANTICIPATORY THINKING
The parallel tracks of roughly seven forces are running the world: Governments, Military, Law Enforcement, Business, Academia, NGO and Media, and Civil (Class, Religion, Labor). Each has its own worldview and agenda which sets the priorities in its point of view, from plutocrats to technocrats and bureaucrats. Many have failed so utterly they have become Roadmaps to Nowhere. We have to step beyond the bounds of elite greed and failed ecology to a less narcissistic, more mature citizenship.
OVERT INTELLIGENCE
Technology, markets, resources and policy interact dynamically. All prediction markets agree that nano-neuro-bio-info products will shape the future. These forces and ideas then filter into manufacturing futures, politics, business, academics, the media, science and military where they take root (or not) in our minds and become part of our cultural mandate. They acquire traction and velocity as people jump on the bandwagon. Despite the techno-utopianism, the economic keyword for 2008 is "debt."
GOD IS AN AMERICAN
The war for your mind has moved from the outside to inside the mindbody of each and every one of us. Propaganda controls the message but the message itself is control. We really have been programmed from the cradle to the grave to worship GOD -- Gold, Oil, & Drugs. We worship and seek solace outside ourselves when the answer is within in our hearts and spirits.
RUNNING ON EMPTY
It's no accident we feel empty and can't get enough. These are the addictions of our culture. We are running on empty, overextended in energy and credit, and militarily. We have traded social safety nets for unsustainable imperialism. We have sheepishly accepted the curtailment of our former freedoms out of fear, or by believing the fear-mongers who create public opinion. Our nation has hostage syndrome. We've been sold a bill of goods and the balance is coming due.
CONSPIRITUALITY
In the Age of Intelligence, modern IO is not about the old messages of psychological operations (PSYOPS), but rather about empowering billions of people with both information tools and access to truthful information. It is about education, not manipulation. It is about sharing, not secrecy. Reality is up for grabs. The present is revealed only after acquiring the entire past. Then the constituents fall into place in a holistic context. The imaginary future influences its creation, from toxic visions like The Matrix to false techno-utopianism. Computers were supposed to save us work, but we wind up working more for less. But, the one who dies with the biggest toys is not the winner. We are living on borrowed time.
THE LONG WAR
The power struggle of The Great Game set up an ongoing quiet war between Britain and Russia for Afghanistan. And after the Soviet defeat, the US was sucked into the continuing quagmire of events involving Iraq, Iran [Persia], India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia described in Zbigniew Brzezinski's book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. This neoconservative strategy has failed utterly as a foreign policy.
INFOTEL
Intelligence in The Age of information is a vision of the convergence of computers, media, and telecommunications - hacking and tracking. It means the ultra data-glut of the net-centric war of information. But where do we go from here? Do you live a white-picket fence / big screen TV fantasy in a militarily-defined world with optimistic delusions of victory? What comes after the fetishizing of information technology and looming economic meltdown of the Greenback?
Instead of the greater free time for creativity imagined in the Cold War era, people have come to work harder and for longer hours for less net gain. But, Voltaire said that, "Man is free the instant he wants to be."
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Quote from the Eulogy of William C. Patrick III, Expert on Germ Warfare and bioweaponeer for the U.S. Army during the Cold War:
"Mr. Patrick expressed no regrets about his arms work, saying he was comfortable with memories of killing animals and finding new ways to produce death. He said it was all part of doing his duty for his country in perilous times."
#Comment: I wonder if his personality-type was related at all to the likes of Shirō Ishii (a microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army) or Josef Mengele. Biological warfare seems to require and attract very special types of "doctors".
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"If we declare the whole of the world’s development to be art, we’re done; art is finished" - Henk Peeters
#Comment: The "Manifesto Against Nothing" (like so many outputs of the zero movement) is a nice illustration of the utterly confused and dysfunctional state which western #Art and #Philosophy are in for the past centuries. Endless, highly exclusive and complex but totally pointless intellectual masturbation ("reductio ad absurdum") replaced an essential praxis, which for millennia guided human culture and life. With all "lebendigkeit" long gone, the western (art) circus has turned into a macabre spectacle for the super rich and their parasites. The exploration of "Zero" & "Nothing" (even intellectual ones) in the east is certainly more fun, useful and #Mindful.
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Cognitive Bias Codex
Wikipedia: "A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own 'subjective social reality' from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of social reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the social world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality."
#Comment: Why do scientists tend to describe cognitive bias as if they were a terrible pathological condition? Why do they casually dismiss their crucial role for serendipity, creativity and joy? One beings "perceptional distortion" or "illogical, subjective reality" is another's unique evolutionary path. Narrowly defining and enforcing normal is a job for dictators. Wisely negotiating the politics of experience requires simplicity, compassion and patience - not reason, norms, metrics, objectives and force.
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"The phrase 'may you live in interesting times' is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue 'may you come to the attention of those in authority' and finish with 'may the gods give you everything you ask for.' I have no idea about its authenticity." - Terry Pratchett - #China #Philosophy #Comedy #Politics #Magic
