DEEP SCRATCH

Category: Robert Anton Wilson

  • TOT

    TOT

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    PRESENT AUTHORS INTRODUCTION


    So what have we here then Steve? Tinkering with the AI again are we? I told you and warned you a thousand times about it and you just kept going and going and now look wot’ you’ve gone and done. Claiming it’s a bit ov’ a modern verse epic, but know full well it could never truly be the thing, as to our beingness and human struggle through time.Chatting to myself again, as Homo Promptus, in first person reflection space. The following series of essays are AI generated, spoiler alert. And I can already sense that slight frown and disappointment that I wasn’t hand crafting this big shebang, or rag-bag of notes. That’s under construction, in the meantime, this work is my contribution, an example of what I find interesting firstly, and also with luck what you dear reader, enjoy.

    The subject matter reflects a purposeful choice, and works on a few different levels, both personal-historical and geographical meaning to me myself and I. For those that know me…the flesh and bone present author…will experience reading these articles in a different way to a total stranger. However I hope the unpredictability of the order and content within rings many bells at once, each effectively acting as an Epyllion (a mini modern epic) but, alas, lacking poetry turns of phrase and typographic experimentation, grammatical loop-da-loops and tricks of human authors with a pen or typewriter, battling digital algorithms and infernal averages. Hot stuff.

    There’s something for everyone here, so at the least maybe give it a quick browse. In some sense this is a browsing document, a mini wikipedia world whipped up around this author’s ego, weird esoteric interests, fictional fancies, friends, family, hobbies, and a recurring theme: demonstrating the paradox of the tale of the tribe. Subjective experiences of mine, loves and some struggles, at the same time as containing historical forces (can we say facts without annoying too many people?). Leading, with luck, to distinguished science facts, methods, experiments, peer reviewed studies, when required, generously blended with my own mystical personal queries, carefully crafted and selected for you here. Feels a bit like cheating for an exam, producing all the goods to at least get a pass, but did I and do I really understand these Frankenstein’s Monster mash-ups? Who knows, here’s the results of my experiments. Hope you have a s much fun as I did.   

    In no particular order the articles feature such people and concepts as Rituals, Sports Mega Events, Economics, Beatboxing, Dutch, English, American History, Turntablism, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Typewriter Innovation, Lisbon Maru, Maj Frank Foley, AI, The Modern Verse Epic, Robert Anton Wilson, Ostriches, Countering Hate Speech, DIY Pot Hole Guide, Konnakol, Led Zeppelin, Swimming, Lightening, Thunder and the Brontic Logos, Magick, Tarot, LBJP, Drumming, Geronimo Pratt, Identity, McLuhan, Climate Science Solutions, The Black Country, Dutch Water Management, Story telling, John Sinclair, Street Art, Jazz, Stage Lighting, Causes Of War, Genealogy Writing, Digital I.D.J, Kim Stanley Robinson, thoughts on thoughts about thoughts.

    • Off The Cuff N’ Ruff
      Poetry, stuff. Thoughts.
    • TOT
      All in all an updated answer to critical questions concerning the limits of AI and what distinguishes human beings with their wet-ware–AI-like interacting human nervous system–from the probability cloud intelligences. Short answer by way of analogy, see the limits and questions and paradox inherent in the tale of the tribe, a poem, a modern verse epic, a poem including history, from an individual in time yet also bringing historical forces to bear, facts from a widely shared globally vindicated source. Like Thunder. It did or it didn’t? Toward a universal agreeability. Negotiations. Understanding. To peace. To digress I digress. Yeah, Ostriches too. Let’s goo. I, still can’t really decide what order to present them in tbh.
    • Ambidexless – A Blend
      The sharp contrast and flip between hot and cold seems like a powerful force across scale, materials and technology. Geology, thermodynamics and data hardware depend upon stable temperature parameters. Like wearing six hoodies and thermal underpants in a sauna, or swimming with no wet suit in the North Sea after eating ten choc’ ice’s, these sharp contrasts are testing human capacity to adequately house and feed everyone. I conclude, burn less fossil fuels, utilise the natural abundance of untapped energy in wind, water, solar and novel natural carbon capture technologies. I’m drifting… 
    • Loves Labours Lost Mixtape
    • Climate Scenarios, Urban Impacts, and Adaptation Frameworks for the Netherlands
      The acceleration of global cryospheric decay represents one of the most critical variables in contemporary sea level rise projections. Recent observational data and numerical modeling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, particularly the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), indicate that major marine-terminating glaciers are undergoing unprecedented rates of retreat and destabilization.
    • Makes Me Wanna’ Hurl
      A poem spoken with added guitar and then just mixed together on the fly and put out….shape of things to come. x
  • BTG DEEP SCRATCH TIMELINE

    BTG DEEP SCRATCH TIMELINE

    Deep Scratch Universe: Chronological Echoes

    Deep History & Mythic Seeds

    • Ancient Finger (4M years old?), Denisovan Cave connection.
    • Mayan Cosmology: Long Count, Popul Vuh prophecy (Stupidity Disease?), Dresden Codex (miscalculated?).
    • Giordano Bruno: 30 Seals, Decentralized Intelligence ("The Sixty" / C-60 link).
    • Enochian System (Dee/Kelley): Undeciphered tables, “hidden light.”
    • Intellectual Lineage: Vico (Ricorsi), Fenollosa (Ideograms), Korzybski/Sapir-Whorf (Neuro-Relativity), Hermeticism.
    • Prehistoric Events: Comet Phaeton crash (Bavaria, 500 BCE).

    Early 20th Century Echoes

    • Tesla’s visions, suppressed tech/weapons potential.
    • Joyce & Yeats meet (1904), Joyce writes Finnegans Wake (pub. 1939), Yeats explores Gyres.
    • Pound writes Cantos.
    • Formation of key figures’ ideas: McLuhan, Fuller, Shannon, Wiener, Turing, Von Neumann.
    • Malvern Hill Gang established? (Crowley, Lewis, Hess, John Trump link?).

    1936: The Nexus Point

    • Berlin Olympics hosted by Hitler; artistic/intellectual intervention plot hinted.
    • Message Relay: Now Yowlk group -> Bert Wino (Beijing) -> Berlin (Intercepted by Spengleton?).
    • Rapalltown Group (Chase, Bates, Pod) active.
    • Spain holds counter “People’s Olympic Games.”
    • Joyce possibly intervenes (vision?).
    • Foundation for Mid-Century Conspiracy Web laid

    Mid-Century Conspiracy Web (Conceptual)

    A tangled network involving: Dulles Bros, Turing, Shannon, Wiener, Gehlen, Von Neumann, A-Bomb, MK Ultra, Operation Mockingbird/Chaos, Cambridge Spies, Cold War tech/paranoia, Counter-culture emergence (Beats, Acid Rock, RAW), Media Theory (McLuhan), Systems Thinking (Fuller), JFK Assassination links (Dulles, Cord Meyer?), Project Blue Book…

    Plush’s Origins / TRB Genesis

    • Plush’s youthful awakening (Psychedelics, Ideograms).
    • Failed music career, violent attacks (pre-2012).
    • Early writing attempts (Our Histories Back 2009, Sixty 2011).
    • ~2008: TRB’s countdown to 21/12/2012 begins.
    • Plush develops early TribeTable Method concepts in Amsterdam.

    ~2012: The Main Event (Amsterdam)

    TRB Activation:

    • Plush, Max, Percy form TRB, inspired by RAW, aiming to map “Tale of the Tribe.”
    • Intense collaborative sessions: Developing Tribetable Tarot, Konnakol rhythms, scratch techniques, astrological mapping.
    • Plush experiences visions (tardigrades, finger), paranoia (Briq threat).

    External Forces & Strange Events:

    • Jake & Joe become involved (experiments, paranoia).
    • Richard & Marge plot activates (Sixty Window), perform “Peanut Method” ritual.
    • Accidental satellite explosion.
    • Richard/Marge kill Fang at studio (Chapter 14 climax).
    • Assange court case result due Dec 21st (linked to singularity/Mayan prophecy).
    • Voyager/tardigrade disc arrives from space (Nov 27th?).
    • Plush receives court summons for Scratch History (espionage, treason…).

    World State:

    Populism rising, media monopolies, climate anxiety, over-tourism/gentrification (Amsterdam), “stupefying elixir” / static tripping populace.

    Future Echoes & Alternate Streams

    • DJ Battle in San Francisco (Flash-forward?).
    • Tardigrade mission to Venus (Ongoing?).
    • Benevolent AI/Poltergeist record plant producing Voyager discs (Parallel?).
    • Hovertables launched (2023 Showcase).
    • Time-traveling tardigrades from 2323 influence Plush.
    • Planet Klaka / Mantis / Jellyfish sequence (Story-within-story?).
    • Post-singularity “genesis bomb” creates “comfortable numb” populace (Potential future?).
    • LA 2028 Olympics speculation…

    Meta-Time / Remix Layer

    • Author’s editing process (Sixty -> Deep Scratch).
    • *Deep Scratch Remix* project (Preface dated 23/3/23).
    • “PrattGPT” (Steve Fly/ChatGPT collaboration) explores AI ethics/use.
    • Moscow surveillance subplot introduced in Remix.
    • AI music generation (Udio/Flai Mixes) vs non-AI music (*Remix* album).
    • Tanmoy!
    BTG
  • Using AI for Countercultural Art and Global Transformation with Steve Fly

    Using AI for Countercultural Art and Global Transformation with Steve Fly

    Using AI for Countercultural Art and Global Transformation with Steve Fly

    Steve Fly: The latest iteration of my quarter-century (and counting) of research into Robert Anton Wilson’s Tale of the Tribe is a collaboration using some AI tools. Tale of The Tribe is a mountain range whose size and scope requires training to traverse, hill-climbing toward coherence. So far I’ve produced over 65 stanzas with corresponding audio. The first iteration is structured on 60 stanzas to represent the 60 vertices of the Buckminsterfullerene. This is prompted from a line in Ezra Pound’s Cantos “buckie has gone in for structure.” The structure of the poem/album is a tribute to Buckminster Fuller, whom RAW admired and studied with, and it snugly sits as one of the 13 primary inspirations in the way RAW conceived/perceived the universe.

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    pro log a rhythm

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  • Chapel perilous review

    Chapel perilous review

    Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson

    By Gabriel Kennedy a.k.a Prop Anon.

    Meticulous research, in depth interviews and his own blood sweat and tears make this book burst with primary sourced materials. Prop met and interviewed Wilson, and studied under his wings at the Maybe Logic Academy 2004-2007. Prop has read and processed everything Wilson published, and done a great service to humanity in discovering and compiling many unpublished materials and eclipsed details.

    This human story of integrity and the honest pursuit of the facts, no matter where they lead him is brave and honorable. Remaining forgiving and compassionate, RAW fans already feel this intuitively, now we have words and evidence to bolster those big feels. This book helps encapsulate and buffer that sense that now’s the time, the time to activate and put into practice what RAW communicated. Find and develope your own style. Nurture your own voice. Find the others. All that jazz.

    Both a clear introduction to his work, and a wellspring of fat facts for the RAW heads, this book can change your life, if you want it? 

    The work has helped cement my suspicion that RAW and his works present a road map, or a pathway or network of pathways, for all around the world humanity to thrive, relatively peacefully. A universal, fair and equal and sane vision for planetwide cooperation, physical and mental health and sufficient tolerance, that which is expressed by Charlie Chaplin (Perilous) in his famous speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

    Four quotations from the book, for a lil’ flava’

    “you are hereby invited to join the most powerful, unscrupulous, dangerous, and mind-blowing non-existent secret society in the world, the Bavarian Illuminati (a front for the even more powerful and non-existent, POEE.) –CP, pg. 86.

    Wilson was in D.C. that day with all the other hippies, Yippies, and freaks; walking past a chanting Ed Sanders who was standing on the back of a flatbed truck shouting, “Out demon, out!” towards the Pentagon.–CP, pg. 80.

    In a May Day letter, he told Leary, “I am developing a system of consciousness-expansion based on Lilly, yourself, Masters–Houston, Crowley, Gurdjieff, traditional Wiccadom…In my vain moments I think I have something quicker and easier than either traditional magick or modern psychology.”–CP, pg. 115.

    Cosmic Trigger Vol. 1 can now be named as the first popular non-fiction book to present the experiments that eventually earned John Clauser and Alain Aspect the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.118 It was also the first popular book, according to Alan Moore, the British comic book genius and magician, to properly contextualize Thelema in a language that was accessible and fun. As if that wasn’t enough, Wilson’s book was also the first to present his and Leary’s 8-Circuit model of intelligence, and, according to Richard Metzger, the first to popularize the McKenna brothers Terrence and Dennis’s Timewave Zero Theory after their own The Invisible Landscape (1974).–CP, pg. 131.

    I could go on quoting what I consider the evidence for both Wilson’s genius and the importance of this new biography in it’s carefully paced introduction to the facts.

    Self evidently, as the saying goes, if it does not make you laugh its probably not true, or, gods can be recognized by their cheerfulness. Through all the struggle, rejection and physical discomfort, Wilson kept his integrity and generally maintained his hilaritas, his cheerfulness, optimism and kindness (expressed by experiential and experimental understanding) toward all sentient beings. 

    As a super fan of Wilson and his works, I’m naturally biased in my urgent recommendation to read this book, and support the author for his heroic biography. A labour of love. I have followed the long road, and the authors own struggle to get this book completed and published. Writing a book such as this, who’s subject is widly regarded as one of the brightest minds of a generation, requires a laser like focus, and decades deep full immersion in the subjects work. As noted, Wilson gets the biographer he deserves in Prop Anon. Walking the walk and talking the talk, and writing the writ. Get it in your soul.

     

    Turn all that what might have been, what could have and should have been done, into action, into process. Do it. Make it knew. Walk tall.

    10/10

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    https://chapelperilous.us

  • Illuminati records ltd

    Illuminati records ltd

    For those perhaps still uninitiated into this secret society of illuminated seers…

    TALES OF ILLUMINATUS! is the official comic book adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea‘s classic underground trilogy of novels, which will be both serialized as a webcomic and released in print.

    https://talesofilluminatus.substack.com/

    Illuminati Records Ltd is a record label from within the Tales Of Illuminatus universe that is spilling out in all directions at once into the shared meat space between people with ears. Stay tuned to the TOI newsletter over at Substack.

  • Maybe Day 2023 Is Coming…

    Maybe Day 2023 Is Coming…

    MAYBE DAY 2023 is our 4th annual virtual celebration of the lives and ideas of Robert Anton Wilson.
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of Mr. Wilson’s Sirius contact experience, and as such, I encourage everyone to embrace their weirdest and wildest hopes & dreams 

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    We will be re-engaging the COSMIC TRIGGER on July 23rd 8:08 AM UTC at www.maybeday.net

    Let this serve as a clarion call for RAW art, video presentations, writing, and whatever else besides!

    You can either send in your work to be featured on the Maybe Day site itself, and/or submit a link to be added to the NEW TRAJECTORIES WEBRING. (https://new-trajectories.com/)

    The idea is simple: Make something cool • Share it • Explore the others!

    You can contact me here or at RGC777 @ gmail . com
    Approximate deadline for submitting Maybe Day offerings is July 15th

    Also! As always, in the spirit of Discordians sticking apart, do please feel free & encouraged to create & post Maybe Day content using your own ways and means. A decentralized and self-organizing Maybe Day would be just the thing to keep the lasagna flying onward and upward to ever greater glory.

    https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,39289.0.html

  • Bruce Sterling On The Great AI Beast

    I’ve been a fan of Bruce Sterling since seeing his improvised presentation at the PlanetWorkers Conference, held at the Presidio in San Francisco, 2000. 23 years later his mixture of cookie-cutting-edge prose and technical translation get to the deep monstrous heart of the matter. I’m sure Bruce is aware of the supercomputer called The Great Beast GWB-666 from “Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy” by Robert Anton Wilson.

    But those “parrots” are also AI mythic beasts—parrots with a trillion dimensions. It’s as if that “dead parrot” in the legendary Monty Python sketch could take your job, or burst right out of the BBC-TV screen like a blazing phoenix and eat the television signal. Those parrots are dynamite!

    Bruce Sterling, Newsweek, June 2023.

    Next among the cavalcade of AI folk monsters: the “Masked Shoggoth.” The Shoggoth is an alien monster invented by the cosmic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. The Shoggoth is a huge, boneless slave beast that sprouts eyes and tentacles at random. It’s a creepy beast-of-burden from outer space, and it’s forced to labor, but it’s filled with a silent, burning, unnatural resentment for its subjugation.
    So, the human programmers of today’s new AIs—those text-to-image generators, those Large Language Model GPT chatbots—they adore this alien monster. They deliberately place a little smiley-face Mask on the horrid Shoggoth, so that the public will not realize that they’re trifling with a formless ooze that’s eldritch, vast and uncontrollable.

    Bruce Sterling, Newsweek, June 2023.

  • Do you feel absolutely sure “Robert Anton Wilson” wrote this and not some gol-danged bot?

    Once again, Wilson reverses and rewires every mental polarity with a illuminated blog post from the date UNIX 1073865600, the good ole’ days.

    UNIX Date 1073865600

    “Maybe” is a thin reed to hang your life on but it’s all we’ve got.
    –Woody Allen

    This may not seem startling to gamers, but it sure woke me up; I learned about it on Law and Order last Sunday.

    A type of program called a “bot ” can play a computer game “just like a human” and in the style of any chosen human, given enough skill on the part of the bot-maker.

    It seems to me this surpasses virtual reality and approaches electronic cloning. After all, the bot can go on playing after the human has “died.”

    A bot can also exist which, like an art forgery, seems to have the style and habits of a certain human but actually emerged from the brain of a clever faker.

    This seems to me like virtual virtual reality and electronic immortality of a sort. If a bot plays chess like Alekhine, in what sense can we call Alekhine totally “dead”?

    More: computer tech in general as brought us to the stage where producing a photo of a crime or even a moving picture of it does not prove a damned thing anymore. “I saw it with my own eyes” has become a bad joke.

    I begin to feel that Maybe Logic will soon replace the Aristotelian either/or, not because of my books or Korzybski’s or von Neumann’s. but because virtual reality and artificial intelligence have destroyed certitude and left us with only degrees of probability.

    BTW, do you feel absolutely sure “Robert Anton Wilson” wrote this and not some gol-danged bot?

    Thoughts
  • Law Of Acceleration

    Law Of Acceleration

    The following is an unreleased track, made for the album Occupy, by Dr Marshmallow Cubicle. Titled “Law Of Acceleration” featuring the present author playing live drums and reading a chapter from Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson, one of my favourite authors, most highly recommended books and chapters from that book.

    I’d draw your special attention to RAWs resonance with describing, meaningfully, and not too gloomily, the current explosion in artificial intelligence technology. And, to some of good old Terence Mckenna’s poetic metaphors that ring through time.

    The chapter I am reading from is called The Law Of Acceleration and can be found on page 219. Originally recorded in Amsterdam 2011. Guitar by Vincent Pino. Spread the word.

    –Steve Fly Agaric

    Words by Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger)

    Cosmic Trigger I
    DR MARSHMALLOW CUBICLE – ON BANDCAMP