Octopus Garden
24th February 2021, 02:33
Here is an interesting article about AI, alien intelligence, past predictions and how they all intersect. Fans of Philip K Dick, Terence McKenna, John Lily, Jacques Vallee will appreciate this article, me thinks.
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"There Dick delivered a talk entitled, “The Android and the Human.” So-called primitive minds animate the world with spirits and discarnate beings, he observed. Psychologists and anthropologists call this “projection.” Dick contrasted this with introjection: “that is, to bring back into our own heads...the living quality which we, in ignorance, cast into the inert things around us.”
There’s an inherent tragedy in introjection, said Dick, because it disenchants the world into dead space, where the introjector is applauded for being ‘mature’ or even ‘scientific.’ “But one wonders: has he not also, in this process, reified — made into a thing — other people? Stones and rocks and trees may now be inanimate for him, but what about his friends? Has he not now made them into stones, too?”
https://geoffolson.substack.com/p/the-sorcerers-apprentice-part-4
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"There Dick delivered a talk entitled, “The Android and the Human.” So-called primitive minds animate the world with spirits and discarnate beings, he observed. Psychologists and anthropologists call this “projection.” Dick contrasted this with introjection: “that is, to bring back into our own heads...the living quality which we, in ignorance, cast into the inert things around us.”
There’s an inherent tragedy in introjection, said Dick, because it disenchants the world into dead space, where the introjector is applauded for being ‘mature’ or even ‘scientific.’ “But one wonders: has he not also, in this process, reified — made into a thing — other people? Stones and rocks and trees may now be inanimate for him, but what about his friends? Has he not now made them into stones, too?”
https://geoffolson.substack.com/p/the-sorcerers-apprentice-part-4