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Virtual Reality and Hallucination

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 [...]

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Self-Editing for Survival

Posted in Francis Crick, Kary Mullis, LSD, consilience, genetic engineering, interconnectivity, psychedelic science on 21 September 2007 | No Comments »

Those engaged in psychedelic science—legit or outlaw flavors—assume, as the ancient profession of shaman has always presumed, that the discoveries, the observations, the affordances, and the actions available to a person in an altered state are useful to the community. How useful?
Certainly the insights of psychedelic science—at least the raw observations—have penetrated the zone [...]

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