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Elves in the Machine
Bruce Damer Today we are taking a slightly different tack and heading into the cyber world of Artificial Life, which may sound like a contradiction or may sound like life in the hectic Western world these days. While this field may be controversial to old-line scientists, of late […]
Countdown Into Complexity – Part 5
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Date this lecture was recorded: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “We asked for it, but we never knew we would get it in such spades. Last week was the 25th anniversary of the experiment at La Chorrera, and basically it’s a trip that…
Countdown Into Complexity – Part 1
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “My techniques are all shamanic and involve perturbing the senses and dissolving ordinary states of mind through psychedelics. So my techniques are shamanic, but my method is rational and analytical. So…
Complexity and Meaning
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Date this lecture was recorded: March 10, 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna “This synesthesia thing seems to be the direction in which language has to go in order to be universal. It has to be beheld, acoustical signals don’t do it.” “No…
McKenna: Evolving Times
�What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It�s a kind of tuneless singing.� �Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence, a situation�