How We Make Choices | Robert Sapolsky
“The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. […]
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The Poememenon: Form as Occult Technology | Amy Ireland
“Hyperstition is the real truth of philosophy—if not the basic, horrific form of reality itself” – Amy Ireland The folks at Urbanomic regularly put out compelling essays that are both timely and […]
The A.I Cargo Cult | Kevin Kelly
The Myth of a Superhuman A.I By Kevin Kelly I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our […]
Mutant Culture: Metamorphosis and the Dividual
Originally posted on Technocommercium:
Algorithmic governmentality, by its perfect ‘real time’ adaptation, its ‘virality’and its plasticity, makes the very notion of ‘failure’ meaningless… —Desrosières, The Politics of Large Numbers With…
S.C Hickman on Neohuman transition
So this hypercapitalist era or technics and technology in creating a Global Technocommercium is reformatting the very prospects of what it means to be human ridding it of the waste […]
The Myth of Cognitive Agency |Thomas Metzinger
“The myth of cognitive agency: subpersonal thinking as a cyclically recurring loss of mental autonomy” | Thomas Metzinger EXCERPTS: “[G]iven empirical constraints, most of what we call “conscious thought” is […]
‘Crash Space’, by R.S. Bakker (pdf)
Postscript Reverse engineering brains is a prelude to engineering brains, plain and simple. Since we are our brains, and since we all want to be better than what we […]
