January 2012
5 posts
“Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat.”
– Malaclypse The Younger, Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, “Principia Discordia”
“ A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words....”
– e. e. cummings, “A Poet’s Advice”
“DAVID: A few scientists that I’ve spoken with told me that they don’t think that...”
– “Molecules of Mind and Body”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Candace B. Pert, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
“DAVID: You mention Aldous Huxley’s book Doors of Perception in Molecules of...”
– “Molecules of Mind and Body”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Candace B. Pert, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
“DAVID: What sort of difference do you think the Internet has made politically?...”
– “Language, Politics, and Propaganda”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Noam Chomsky, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
December 2011
1 post
“ Одним из самых впечатляющих открытий было открытие источника энергии звёзд,...”
– Ричард Фейнман, «Шесть простых фрагментов», из сборника «Дюжина лекций: шесть попроще и шесть посложнее»
November 2011
8 posts
Гип-гип-уран →
Президент Федерации американских ученых Чарльз Фергюсон развенчивает мифы о дороговизне, общедоступности и опасности атомной энергетики.
Jürgen Heckel Photography →
“Марихуана — это преступление, но преступление без жертвы. Каждый волен...”
– Вуди Харрельсон, в интервью журналу «Esquire».
“DAVID: A lot of people claim from their experience with psychedelics that...”
– “Chemistry and the Mind Field”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Kary Mullis, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
“DAVID: Has your use of psychedelics influenced your scientific work, and how has...”
– “Chemistry and the Mind Field”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Kary Mullis, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
Myeongbeom Kim →
60 Second Adventures in Thought →
Can a cat be both alive and dead? Can a computer think? How does a tortoise beat Achilles in a race? Voiced by comedian David Mitchell, these fast-paced animations explain six famous thought experiments, from the ancient Greeks to Albert Einstein, that have changed the way we see the world. Subjects as vast as time travel, infinity, quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence, are squeezed into...
October 2011
10 posts
“KARY: […] If you think about yourself as something going through time, how thick...”
– “Chemistry and the Mind Field”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Kary Mullis, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
“KARY: […] I enjoy fractal geometry as a sort of hobby. Fractal geometry doesn’t...”
– “Chemistry and the Mind Field”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Kary Mullis, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
“KARY: […] We’re not pragmatists anymore. For at least a couple of hundred years...”
– “Chemistry and the Mind Field”, David Jay Brown’s interview with Kary Mullis, quoted from “Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse” by David Jay Brown
“ANDREW. As I say, I thought I’d teach Mr. Tindle a lesson for his presumption....”
– Anthony Shaffer, “Sleuth”
“ Heroin inspires more superstitious terror than any other drug, and —...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, “Sex, Drugs & Magick”
“ Of course, there are many who still proclaim that the weed is terribly...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, “Sex, Drugs & Magick”
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the...”
– Salman Rushdie, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”
“I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world,...”
– Salman Rushdie
“In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true or becomes...”
– John C. Lilly, “The Center of the Cyclone”, quoted from “Sex, Drugs & Magick” by Robert Anton Wilson
“After all, Genesis says that an angel was set at the front door of Eden to keep...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, “Sex, Drugs & Magick”
September 2011
3 posts
“ Проповедование само по себе является политикой второго контура, так как...”
– Роберт Антон Уилсон, «Психология эволюции»
“Я утверждаю, что мы — оба атеисты. Я только верю на одного бога меньше, чем Вы....”
– Стивен Генри Робертс (via recoder)
August 2011
3 posts
Atheism vs. Theism →
fanarsenala:
The reason I’m an atheist isn’t because of the argument from evil or from unbelief or from inconsistent revelations or anything. No, the reason I’m an atheist is because theism drastically fails Solomonoff induction.
If I want to pull somebody away from magical thinking, I don’t need to mention atheism. Instead, I teach them Kolmogorov complexity and Bayesian updating. I show them...
The Elusive Big Idea →
fanarsenala:
If our ideas seem smaller nowadays, it’s not because we are dumber than our forebears but because we just don’t care as much about ideas as they did. In effect, we are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that can’t instantly be monetized are of so little intrinsic value that fewer people are generating them and fewer outlets are...
July 2011
2 posts
“ Критерий демаркации, присущий индуктивной логике, то есть позитивистская...”
– Карл Поппер, «Логика научного исследования»
Drugs and the Meaning of Life →
June 2011
2 posts
Why Prescription Ecstasy or LSD Could Happen Much... →
If a growing phalanx of scientists get their way, prescriptions for psychedelic drugs could be yours within 10 years.
Реабилитация вещества →
После расцвета психоделических практик в шестидесятые годы XX века эксперименты с псилоцибином оказались под запретом. Сегодня учёные снова пытаются найти научное объяснение мистических изменений человеческого сознания.
May 2011
6 posts
“ According to Establishment rhetoric, the U.S. government is engaged in a War...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, Miriam Joan Hill, “Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups”
“All affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in...”
– Malaclypse The Younger, Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, “Principia Discordia”
“ No man or woman in the United States today wants the Feds to know too much...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, Miriam Joan Hill, “Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups”
“ Yes: my two observers trying to measure a moving rod while they are...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, “Masks of the Illuminati”
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic...”
– Philip K. Dick, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
“Civilization wouldn’t have deserted reality — just transcended biology.”
– Greg Egan, “Permutation City”
April 2011
2 posts
“ I know a woman here in Toronto who is very dear to my heart. She was my...”
– Yann Martel, “Life of Pi”
“Крест, могила, богатырская сила.
Багровое сияло мигало, и хруст...”
– Олег Пащенко, «Перед свадьбой». (via poppencil)
March 2011
3 posts
“ If you’ll remember, helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had...”
– Philip K. Dick, “VALIS”
“ Once when I lectured at the University of California at Fullerton, a student...”
– Philip K. Dick, “VALIS”
“ There are two kinds of sufferers in this world: those who suffer from a lack...”
– “Waking Life”
February 2011
3 posts
“После приказа властей о публичном сожжении
Книг вредного содержания,
Когда...”
– Бертольт Брехт, «Сожжение книг»
Животное поведение →
Активисты общественных организаций, защищающих права животных, объясняют, почему живущие по 80 лет медведи не выживают больше года в руках у фотографов, и рассказывают, как можно заработать на убийстве котят, щенков и черепах.
January 2011
8 posts
“Однажды Джон Майнард Кейнс в ответ на обвинение в непоследовательности сказал:...”
– Диана Койл, «Секс, наркотики и экономика. Нетрадиционное введение в экономику»
“Из военной школы жизни. — Что не убивает меня, то делает меня сильнее.”
– Фридрих Ницше, «Сумерки идолов, или как философствуют молотом»