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.
Category: singularity
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Giordano Bruno was so right so long ago, yo.
The Italian priest Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 for, among other things, imagining an infinite number of other worlds and claiming that “innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns.”
Modern astronomers are proving Bruno right – there really are innumerable suns with innumerable planets revolving around them.
An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside our solar system. As of early September, a total of 836 exoplanets have been found. Astronomers now believe that more than half of all sunlike stars harbor at least one planet, leading to the estimate of at least 160 billion exoplanets in our own Milky Way galaxy.
“An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of 839 such planets (in 662 planetary systems, including 125 multiple planetary systems) have been identified as of October 5, 2012.[1] Estimates of the frequency of systems strongly suggest that more than 50% of Sun-like stars harbor at least one planet.[2] In a 2012 study, each star of the 100 billion or so in our Milky Way galaxy is estimated to host “on average … at least 1.6 planets.”[3][4] Accordingly, at least 160 billion star-bound planets may exist in the Milky Way Galaxy alone.[3][4] Unbound free-floating planetary-mass bodies in the Milky Way may number in the trillions, with 100,000 objects larger than Pluto for every main-sequence star.[5] -
the Tale of the tribe as a blueprint for Artificial General Intellgence
listening to some of the ideas and descriptions of Artificial General Intellgence, I thought that the holistic approach of combining many differemt disciplines, reflects RAW’s comprehensive group of intelligence engineers in The tale of the tribe.
RAW asked what these characters and internet have in common? I am formulating a new set of answers based upon general purpose computing. And a new way of seeing the back of your head.
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2012 Singularity Feedback and Video’s
HI everybody. I’ve been following the development of ‘the 2012 phenomena’ and also the more scientific concept of ‘The Singularity’ since I read ‘Cosmic Trigger’ by Robert Anton Wilson and then ‘The Invisible Landscape’ by Dennis and Terence Mckenna, sometime in the mid 1990’s.
From these references you might deduct that I have a ‘psychedelic’ bias towards the kinds of maps and metaphors I communicate, this is true, in a nutshell I think that ‘psychedelic drugs’ used in the correct set and setting (see Leary and Wilson) IMPACT the individual in a way approximating the IMPACT that ‘The Singularity’ and the ‘2012 Phenomena’ resonate with, if you choose to TUNE IN. (which I hope to define, somewhat, by this multi-media presentation, relaying some fresh video’s and links which I think summarise our entry into 2012.)
Whatever ‘media or drugs’ you interact with, set and setting are important, those who have experimented with psychedelic drugs (at some period of their life) generally, seem to have a grasp on strange resonance with topics concerning ‘The Singularity’ and the ‘2012 Phenomena‘, somewhat familiar territoy to those who have expored inner space and outer, poetry and literature, psychology, engineering, mathematics, anthropology, futurism, ethnobotany, games, music, painting etc.
(Please do not ascribe my own ‘Psychedelic bias’ to the ideas and words from those in the following video’s. Just have fun with your thoughts, I’ll be back with more feedback after digesting them again). –Steve fly.
Computation and the future of Mankind by Stephen Wolfram The Coming war on general computation by Cory Doctorow Mind Share by Mark Pesce Theory Of Everything by Athene. Drugs and Internet by Jason Silva Jumping Jesus by RAW Singularity by Terence Mckenna. Singularity by Jason Silva The Future of Life (Summit 2011) Max Tegmark The Acceleration of Knowledge by Robert Anton Wilson pt. 1. WATSON A.I Perceptions (Summit 2011) by David Ferrucci. http://28c3.chaoscdn.de/mp4-h264-HQ/
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