Hi Brad,
Yes I agree about the singularity stuff which seems on the same (negative)
level as 1st Century and latter-day religio-apocalyptists. I am moderately
interested in the I Ching, and am working on correspondences between it &
the E/ Chess squares, and Acupuncture.
There have been some quite emotive postings on other lists about TM, who
seems to be undergoing the usual reappraisal following his demise.
Although I am a radical futurist (posthumans take that extra step forward
from transhuman), I sometimes find ancient, tried and true systems to be
more effective than modern 'magic bullets' that come and go, and are
announced regularly on this list. We don't want to be slaves to fashions in
futurism when our interests might be better served by medicine systems with
very long-term case histories (eg .acu-systems & mesmerism/ hypnosis).
Best,
S. www.steve-nichols.com
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Hello All
Thanks for the Terrence McKenna (TM) obituary (although in my opinion its
characterization leans a little too heavily towards the classic Tim Leary
bio). I happen to believe TM's time-wave novelty model for predicting a
singularity was a somewhat flaky corner of an otherwise brilliant campaign
to empower everyday people to 'pull back the curtain and see the Wizard for
themselves', so to speak.
Although I am not a big fan of TM's decreasing novelty / I Ching hybrid
model, I am increasingly convinced that the point at which disincarnate
intelligence supersedes its developers in a meaningful way (ie. Vernon Vinge
theory)may, in fact, fall within a relatively small band around TM's date of
cataclysm (Dec 22 2012. 'Small band' loosely defined could be 0 - 50 years.
Anyone familiar with TM's writing care to convince me that this is could be
more than mere coincidence and that TM's model isn't just post hoc
application of formalized procedure onto an pre-existing ontological
phenomena?
Regards,
Brad
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