A Reality Tunnel

Jacque Fresco - Social Engineering

2012-05-16T20:27:00.001-07:00

Social engineering may refer to:

Social engineering (political science), influencing society on a large scale
Social engineering (security), obtaining confidential information by manipulating and/or deceiving people

Futurism, Optimism, and Technology

2012-04-29T21:27:00.000-07:00

Optimism is a mental attitude that interprets situations and events as being best (optimized), meaning that in some way for factors that may not be fully comprehended, the present moment is in an optimum state. The concept is typically extended to include the attitude of hope for future conditions unfolding as optimal as well. The more broad concept of optimism is the understanding that all of nature, past, present and future, operates by laws of optimization along the lines of Hamilton's principle of optimization in the realm of physics. This understanding, although criticized by counter views such as pessimism, idealism and realism, leads to a state of mind that believes everything is as it should be, and that the future will be as well. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full, but the pessimist sees the glass as half empty.

The Transcension Hypothesis

2012-04-15T19:55:00.001-07:00

The transcension hypothesis, also known as the developmental singularity hypothesis (Smart 2000, 2008, 2010) proposes that a universal process of evolutionary development guides all sufficiently advanced civilizations increasingly into inner space, the domain of very small scales of space, time, energy and matter (STEM), and eventually, to a black-hole-like destination, censored from our observation.

Technology and Imagination

2012-03-26T19:34:00.001-07:00

Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming images and sensations when they are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental faculty through which people make sense of the world.

Joe Rogan - Humanity

2012-02-16T20:04:00.000-08:00

Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression, the exchange of ideas, and organization. Humans create complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks, to nations. Social interactions between humans have established an extremely wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which together form the basis of human society. inspiringnow.com

The Beginning of Infinity

2012-02-10T20:24:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to free your mind, but I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it. The beginning of infinity by Jason Silva.

Four on Reality

2012-02-10T19:11:00.000-08:00

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there's no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. - Bill Hicks

Peter Russell On 2012

2012-01-31T19:20:00.000-08:00

At Cambridge University (UK), Russell studied mathematics and theoretical physics. Then, as he became increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the human mind he changed to experimental psychology. Pursuing this interest, he traveled to India to study meditation and eastern philosophy, and on his return took up the first research post ever offered in Britain on the psychology of meditation

Alan Watts On Buddhism

2012-01-21T19:09:00.000-08:00

Alan Watts speaking on Buddhism from 'Buddhism: The Religion Of No Religion. Another great video from nearing2012.

Spiritual technology - Timothy Leary

2012-01-12T19:22:00.000-08:00

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.- Timothy Leary from interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know

2012-01-09T19:59:00.000-08:00

Fuller developed many ideas, designs and inventions, particularly regarding practical, inexpensive shelter and transportation. He documented his life, philosophy and ideas scrupulously by a daily diary (later called the Dymaxion Chronofile), and by twenty-eight publications.

The Matrix of Illumination 4

2011-12-26T09:18:00.000-08:00

An illumination is a computer graphic which is used to make people see images in thin air. You have to look at an illumination for a while and when it goes off,you look anywhere and blink several times,and there you will see the picture you were first staring at.

What Is Reality - Joe Rogan

2011-11-29T19:55:00.000-08:00

Life is energy.The more positive energy you're involved with, the happier you'll feel and the closer you'll be to the true path. We are here to help each other evolve, and we, the people alive today are at the cutting edge of human thinking and human behavior. As you get better in life you enable the people around you to get better as well."

-Joe Rogan

The Divided Brain

2011-10-21T21:06:00.000-07:00

In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.

Alan Watts - Being Completely Here And Now

2011-10-18T20:34:00.000-07:00

In philosophy, being is the object of study of metaphysics, and more specifically ontology. In these contexts, the term "being," is typically understood as one's "state of being," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human (personal) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from a being's innate being, or personal character.

Maybe Logic: The Lives & Ideas Of Robert Anton Wilson (2003)

2011-10-12T23:22:00.000-07:00

Robert Anton Wilson is undeniably one of the foundations of 21th Century Western counterculture. Maybe Logic - The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson is a cinematic alchemy that conjures it all together in a hilarious and mind-bending journey guaranteed to increase your brain size 2 - 3 inches!

A History of Evil

2011-09-19T20:39:00.000-07:00

Evil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. Evil is usually seen as the dualistic opposite of good.

Def Con Bob

2011-06-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

Intro to Eli Elliott's documentary of Marshall Mcluhan's top dog archivist and whirlwind avant edge lecturer, Bob Dobbs, during his '05 Los Angeles tour.

Reality and Life

2011-06-02T20:01:00.000-07:00

Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or may be thought to be. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. A still more broad definition includes everything that has existed, exists, or will exist, not just in the mind, or even more broadly also including what is only in the mind.

Historically, philosophers have sometimes considered reality to include nonexistent things such as "gold mountains" in a sense referred to as a subsistence, as well. By contrast existence is often restricted solely to being (compare with nature).
Reality is often contrasted with what is imaginary, delusional, in the mind, dreams, what is abstract, what is false, or what is fictional. To reify is to make more real, and to abstract is the opposite. The truth refers to what is real, while falsity refers to what is not. Fictions are not considered real.

It is always contrasted with what is not so included, as being not real, so the term is somewhat ambiguous in its contradictory usages.

Echo Land

2011-05-15T20:54:00.000-07:00

If so many reflections arrive at a listener that they are unable to distinguish between them, the proper term is reverberation. An echo can be explained as a wave that has been reflected by a discontinuity in the propagation medium, and returns with sufficient magnitude and delay to be perceived. Echoes are reflected off walls or hard surfaces like mountains and privacy fences.

Alan Watts On Drugs

2011-04-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

In several of Alan Watts later publications, especially Beyond Theology and The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Watts put forward a worldview, drawing on Hinduism, Chinese philosophy, pantheism, and modern science, in which he maintains that the whole universe consists of a cosmic self playing hide-and-seek (Lila), hiding from itself (Maya) by becoming all the living and non-living things in the universe, forgetting what it really is; the upshot being that we are all IT in disguise. In this worldview, Watts asserts that our conception of ourself as an "ego in a bag of skin" is a myth; the entities we call the separate "things" are merely processes of the whole.

You're a Fucking Human Being - Joe Rogan

2011-04-23T22:04:00.000-07:00

Humans have a highly developed brain, capable of abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and problem solving. This mental capability, combined with an erect body carriage that frees the hands for manipulating objects, has allowed humans to make far greater use of tools than any other living species on Earth. Other higher-level thought processes of humans, such as self-awareness, rationality, and sapience, are considered to be defining features of what constitutes a "person".

Gutenberg Galaxy Mosaic

2011-03-30T20:24:00.000-07:00

Vico conceives the time-structure of history as "not linear, but contrapuntal. It must be traced along a number of lines of development..." For Vico all history is contemporary or simultaneous, a fact given, Joyce would add, by virtue of language itself, the simultaneous storehouse of all experience

Illumination of the Matrix

2011-03-11T19:43:00.000-08:00

A major branch of numerical analysis is devoted to the development of efficient algorithms for matrix computations, a subject that is centuries old but still an active area of research. Matrix decomposition methods simplify computations, both theoretically and practically. For sparse matrices, specifically tailored algorithms can provide speedups; such matrices arise in the finite element method, for example.

Joe Rogan - The American War Machine

2011-01-20T20:18:00.000-08:00

War is a behavior pattern of organized violent conflict, typified by extreme aggression, societal disruption, and high mortality. This behavior pattern is found in many primate species, including man, and also found in many ant species. It involves two or more organized groups. Such a conflict is always an attempt at altering either the psychological hierarchy or the material hierarchy of domination or equality between such groups. In all cases, at least one participant in the conflict perceives the need to either psychologically or materially dominate the other participant. Amongst humans, the perceived need for domination often arises from the belief that an essential ideology or resource is somehow either so incompatible or so scarce as to threaten the fundamental existence of the one group experiencing the need to dominate the other group. Leaders will sometimes enter into a war under the pretext that their actions are primarily defensive, however when viewed objectively, their actions may more closely resemble a form of unprovoked, unwarranted, or disproportionate aggression.