tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post2771742451765526535..comments2024-03-11T07:26:04.670-05:00Comments on Posthuman Blues: Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11074004681516756703noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-48005216657197430342008-02-11T00:30:00.000-06:002008-02-11T00:30:00.000-06:00IMHO, McKenna imbibed a bit too much DMT.I've gott...<I>IMHO, McKenna imbibed a bit too much DMT.</I><BR/><BR/>I've gotta disagree; I think McKenna is possibly *the* overlooked voice of the 20th century.Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11074004681516756703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-77349447023127648282008-02-10T17:55:00.000-06:002008-02-10T17:55:00.000-06:00Robots have both been presented as villains and sa...Robots have both been presented as villains and saviors.<BR/><BR/>Economics and wars will determine how far these constructions of Man go up their own evolutionary ladder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-63291933062392508342008-02-10T10:01:00.000-06:002008-02-10T10:01:00.000-06:00IMHO, McKenna imbibed a bit too much DMT.IMHO, McKenna imbibed a bit too much DMT.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-67321344898398379282008-02-09T18:50:00.000-06:002008-02-09T18:50:00.000-06:00This is the start of the Asmivoian Revolution. Ult...This is the start of the Asmivoian Revolution. Ultimately, robots will replace virtually all manual laborers. Then consider: What will these manual laborers -- a sizable plurality of the population -- do for a living. I suspect we will have a HUGE revolution on our hands when this happens....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-51642446859202381032008-02-09T17:01:00.000-06:002008-02-09T17:01:00.000-06:00Terence McKenna, Part2:…"we are building and conne...Terence McKenna, Part2:<BR/>…"we are building and connecting machines that are modeled on biology . . . but we are creating a creature that lives in a different kind of temporal universe than us . . . we are going to be a different kind of people because we are going to have to live in the presence of alien minds . . . this is the Faustian enterprise of all times…"ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14824314760457509519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4147219.post-87873448961309156362008-02-09T16:54:00.000-06:002008-02-09T16:54:00.000-06:00"I've come to a kind of cyber pantheistic Emersoni..."I've come to a kind of cyber pantheistic Emersonianism . . . the Earth's strategy for its own salvation is through machines . . . human beings are the deputized bride in this alchemical rarefaction of glasses, ceramics, metals, and volatile materials . . . the nervous system of Earth is appearing . . . at who's behest are we doing this . . . we are actors in a cosmic drama that involves Earth at one polarity and machines at the other polarity…"<BR/>-Terence McKennaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14824314760457509519noreply@blogger.com