c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…want carried out somewhat gloomy subject. I didn't really mean to wander this way, but I do love the science fiction of Greg Egan, this New Australian Science fiction writer, and his novels tend to more cosmic themes, but his short stories are just one…
…Rucker is one of an expanding number of science fiction writers who are running harder than usual to stay in place, thanks to Greg Egan, who has raised the bar of science fiction higher than I thought it would rise before the close of the millennium. I…
…of science fiction higher than I thought it would rise before the close of the millennium. I don't know if I've directly pitched Greg Egan to you I've mentioned him several times but if you only bother to read one science fiction author a year you might…
…is that life, therefore can be digitally defined. And I'm very influenced at the moment by the Australian Science fiction writer, Greg Egan, who has brought me to the understanding that code is code, whether it's being run by ribosomes, whether it's being…
…shamanic, more gestalt kind of historical mode, would I be interested, would I buy. Well if you like William Gibson, you should give Greg Egan a try. Neuromancer came out in 1984. How long ago is that? 14 years, hard to believe. It's a work of ancient…
…to believe. It's a work of ancient history. Neuromancer a thing of another stratum in the archology of the 20th century. Greg Egan, thinking along the same lines, imagines downloads where it's not that you put on goggles and gloves but that you actually…
…there's a plottedness to it. We are inside some kind of engine of narrative. I believe some science fiction writers such as Greg Egan and others have suggested that this could even be a form of recorded medium. You can see the thumbprints of editors on…
…hive people and then there were the free spirited witless umm, surface people. It's a more serious fragmentation than that umm. Greg Egan in his science fiction says the real ethical challenge of the future is to preserve the very notion of a human…
…of the insights that I've been reading different people this year maybe you can tell and one of the people I've been reading is Greg Egan who I talked about last year but now I've read more. Now I've read diaspora and the ones where he makes no effort…
…of the insights that I've been reading different people this year maybe you can tell and one of the people I've been reading is Greg Egan who I talked about last year but now I've read more. Now I've read diaspora and the ones where he makes no effort…
…can collage these copies and make selves that never were or might have been. You can have multiple identities in one of Greg Egan stories people have this thing inside them that is implanted when you're two years old that's called it was it starts out…