An interesting article about David Cronenberg's "adaptation" of Burrough's Naked Lunch The idea was that in order to come to terms with a lot of things, the main character, William Lee, has to invent another country for...

DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings.

William Burroughs / David Cronenberg / Naked Lunch

These people don't seem to like the theories that are building around the neural correlates of consciousness...  A landmark study, published last year, beautifully illustrated his point using, of all things, retro video...

The making of a racist, sexist religion of nihilism on 4Chan

Note: Try to let go of thoughts. even if they still talk, try to change the focus from thoughts to body sensations. It might be that the only way to evolve is to let go as much as possible thoughts and go back as much as possible into body...

Data is raw, unorganized facts or figures that need to be processed. Data can be something simple and seemingly random and useless until it is organized. When data is processed, organized, structured or presented - to make it meaningful or useful -...

Definition of information (Merriam-Webster dict.) the communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence (a) (1) knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction (2) :  intelligence, news (3) :  facts,...

Information is not knowledge… intelligence selectively destroys information to create knowledge. – Ray Kurzweil, ('The Singularity is Near', 2005) Defition of knowledge (Merriam-Webster dict.) (a) the fact or...

The simulacra, to which Baudrillard refers, are the signs of culture and media that create the reality we perceive: a world saturated with imagery, infused with communications media, sound, and commercial advertising. These simulacra of the real...

Hyperreality is a concept that is defined by the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality. It describes how the line between real and fake is blurred, particularly in post modern societies where technology is...

Dictonary Definition unreality, irreality(noun) the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact As a small child, you sometimes live in a world where monsters might eat you up and magical things...

Quotes from Philip K Dicks'  "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978). Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. The basic tool for the manipulation of...

It has proved effective to view Models of Realities of the following categories: Reality Irreality Hyperreality Simulacrum

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New Model of Magic - The Virtual World Model Frater U.'.D.'. did list the following models of magic: The Spirit Model The Energy Model The Psychological Model The Information Model The Meta-model In...

"Aleph: A point or state where an infinite amount of internal information is stored and processed" - Mitchell Porter

Cognitive Science primer

Data is raw, unorganized facts that need to be processed. Data can be something simple and seemingly random and useless until it is organized. When data is processed, organized, structured or presented in a given context so as to make it useful, it...

Changing habits, being successful, quitting smoking - you name it, subliminals can heal it! Or so we used to think...