EXCERPT: [...] According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a few unlikely sources are linked to botulism every so often. Usually it’s due to improper handling during manufacturing, at the stores or by consumers. Garlic-infused oil, canned cheese sauce, chili peppers, carrot juice and baked potatoes in foil are a few atypical foods that have caused the poisoning. In this case, the cheese sauce used for Kelly’s nachos appears to be the culprit....
EXCERPT: [...] Scientists at King's College London studied the sleep habits of 2,200 British twins to determine whether loneliness, defined as distress caused by inadequate social relationships, kept them awake at night. It’s important to note that loneliness isn’t caused by being single or sitting home on a Friday night. You can have a huge squad and still feel lonely, or be socially isolated and be perfectly content. The team found that people who reported being lonely were 24 percent more likely to feel unrested and have trouble concentrating...
I have two types of insomnia. One is the usual type of tossing and turning for an hour. The other is waking at 5 in the morning and being unable to go back to sleep. I may be alone, but I'm far from lonely. Every night when I lie down it's socializing time at Grand Central Station. I joke around and tease and comfort my 3 voices till we all agree its sleepy time and then eventually fall asleep. There is no relief from these brain varmints until I negotiate the terms of my surrender. Deals are struck, compromises are made. Then its off to dreamland, where I am even less alone.
(May 21, 2017 05:59 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [...] I may be alone, but I'm far from lonely. Every night when I lie down it's socializing time at Grand Central Station. I joke around and tease and comfort my 3 voices till we all agree its sleepy time and then eventually fall asleep. [...]
Almost envious.
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AI experimentation may reveal all the secret algorithms and feedback loops that structure our unconscious psyches. Complexes, disassociated alters, compensative tulpas, archetypal projections, and the whole baroquian demonology of our inner schizophrenic submind will be integrated into a higher functioning virtual consciousness that takes the form of fantasy role play and magickal rituals . Implanted chips may enhance neuroplasticity towards reprogramming and the overall regrowth of new brain tissue to accomodate one's psychic growth. HD superimposed visualization. Realtime OOBE's. Hallucinogenic odysseys. Lucid waking dreams. Hyperrealistic memory activation. New senses. Oneiric cosmogenesis. Perhaps even telepathic or clairesentient expansion into previously sealed off preternatural dimensions. The possibilities will be utterly limitless. And perhaps terrifying as well.
C CMay 24, 2017 06:58 PM (This post was last modified: May 24, 2017 07:00 PM by C C.)
(May 23, 2017 07:01 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: AI experimentation may reveal all the secret algorithms and feedback loops that structure our unconscious psyches. Complexes, disassociated alters, compensative tulpas, archetypal projections, and the whole baroquian demonology of our inner schizophrenic submind will be integrated into a higher functioning virtual consciousness that takes the form of fantasy role play and magickal rituals . Implanted chips may enhance neuroplasticity towards reprogramming and the overall regrowth of new brain tissue to accomodate one's psychic growth. HD superimposed visualization. Realtime OOBE's. Hallucinogenic odysseys. Lucid waking dreams. Hyperrealistic memory activation. New senses. Oneiric cosmogenesis. Perhaps even telepathic or clairesentient expansion into previously sealed off preternatural dimensions. The possibilities will be utterly limitless. And perhaps terrifying as well.
All those classic depictions of human bodies resting on tables or in tubes while wearing VR helmets resembling insect heads (or whole tactile facilitating suits) -- emaciated in appearance due to satisfaction of their addiction setting aside the need for food and exercise. When instead they'll be cohabiting with an artificial occult domain while still walking about in this world. The former's denizens and events granted realism status via their ability to be inter-subjectively present to countless other linked-in supernatural voyeurs; and the array of subtle and not-so-subtle influences granted to those ghostly beings. Alas, what hath thou unleased, mediated reality?
"Coming very soon is going to be augmented reality technology, where you see not only the physical world, but also virtual objects and entities that you perceive in the middle of them. We’ll put on augmented reality glasses and we’ll have augmented entities out there. My face recognition is not so great, but my augmented glasses will tell me, "Ah, that’s John Brockman." A bit of AI inside my augmented reality glasses will recognize people for me.
At that level, artificial intelligence will start to become an extension of my mind. I suspect before long we’re all going to become very reliant on this. I’m already very reliant on my smartphone and my computers. These things are going to become more and more ubiquitous parts of our lives. The mind starts bleeding into the world. So many parts of the world are becoming parts of our mind, and eventually we start moving towards this increasingly digital reality. And this raises the question I started with: How real is all of this?"
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Just as I opted out of the cellphone craze, I will also opt out of the virtual glasses craze. I do not want my natural experience of my environment "augmented" with text and indicators that are not given in the appearance of that environment. It would be annoying to me to read superimposed data over my visual field. There is an argument to be made for not knowing too much about your surroundings. Better to rely on only the brain sourced information about your immediate experience---the relevance of which arises from your own personal preferences and emotional states.
May 21, 2017 03:40 AM
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