Posted in John Lilly, cognitive liberty, consciousness, epistemology, language, noetic technology, psychedelic science, silence, thesis on 12 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
In a scholarly article, I am permitted to quote another author. The visual cue of quotation marks, or, with a longer quote, an indented block of text, or the italics and right-justification of an epigram mark the change in identity. But what if the same author (could be me) makes an argument in several [...]
Posted in DMT machine elves, Henry Munn, John Lilly, LiveGlide, Maria Sabina, Simon Powell, Terence McKenna, alien languages, consciousness, entheogen, entities, epistemology, hallucination, language, noetic technology, perception, psychedelic science, psychedelics, synesthesia, the Other on 22 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
Xenolinguistics: the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.
—Wikuniversity
Hallucinations as Alien Art
The key to this discussion is a conceit of the extraordinary vision-producing ability unleashed in consciousness [...]
Posted in LiveGlide, Tom Ray, alien languages, consciousness, entheogen, entities, epistemology, language, neural plasticity, noetic technology, perception, psychedelic science, the Other on 15 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wikiuniversity offers a wry definition of Xenolinguistics: “the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.”
The grand convergence of psychedelics and technology came in the summer of 1998. I [...]
Posted in Andy Clark, John Lilly, John Perry Barlow, LSD, LiveGlide, Tom Ray, Tom Roberts, VR, consciousness, cyborg, deixis, epistemology, genetic engineering, hallucination, interconnectivity, language, neural plasticity, noetic technology, osmose, perception, psychedelics, the R word, thesis on 18 December 2007 | 4 Comments »
Been working on this one for the last month–it’s the final paper for the Electronic Imaging conference upcoming in San Jose, 27–31 January, 2008. This is a giant conference made of of many smaller conferences–the one I’m presenting in is #6804: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2008.
Virtual Reality and Hallucination: A Technoetic [...]
Posted in Godel incompleteness, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Turing uncomputability, epistemology on 11 August 2007 | No Comments »
The Ph.D. ritual concerns itself with the production (how 19th century) of new knowledge. “How will your research contribute to the field?” “What is the new knowledge you have unearthed?” The old saw about the Ph.D.—knowing more and more about less and less—is still enforced. “Narrow your focus!” How much [...]
Posted in entities, epistemology, noetic technology, the R word on 27 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
Terence McKenna wrote an afterword to Lawrence Sutin’s In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis, Phillip K. Dick’s thousands of handwritten pages produced from 1974 until the end of his life in 1982. In the Exegesis, Dick tried every-which-way-but-loose to unpack the meanings of the divine invasion, the blast of knowledge-laden pink [...]
