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I’m confused TB. What book? Do you mean Complexity? If so, I don’t think Thiese is anywhere near proposing the sort of garbage that Kurzweil and Rothblatt rattle on about. In fact I’d hazard a guess that he’d be downright dismissive.
(I’m very familiar with Kastrup’s work. I like it).
Also if you’re curious about scientism then can I suggest reading Bruno Latour and Etienne Soreiuex (particularly Les Différents modes d'existence, 1943) over Sheldrake?
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« Last post by Stabbsy on Today at 04:55:09 pm »
Saw my first Peak District red kite yesterday - over Holden Clough on the way down the Snake towards Glossop. Don’t have a feel for how common they are down here, but definitely not as common as near Harewood.
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« Last post by TobyD on Today at 04:54:02 pm »
Malice by Keigo Higashino; a very good Japanese murder mystery novel which is as surprising as the other things of his that I've read. That said, I didn't love it as much as the Detective Galileo series which I've read all of. The characters in Malice aren't as well developed as the others and it depends more on the clever, twisty plot. Still very much worth reading, however.
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I’m not 100% sure that’s true Will. What I do know is true, is that when you posted on Instagram moaning about my views on said poison, I offered to meet you to discuss it and have boulder, to which you didn’t reply, but emerge on here slagging me off. Not to mention Stone badgering me at the crag to the point I asked him to leave me alone, then reporting back on here. Now I know I can be a cunt, but you seem to me on a mission to planet cunt.
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« Last post by Will Hunt on Today at 04:16:33 pm »
lol, I care not about Trump, I do find it odious that people who have, IMO, behaved very badly over the past 4 years, think they're on the side of 'good', I'm not sure what 'dark road' you think I'm on that could get any darker than the recent fuckery. I'd be interested to see RFK Jr take power, his book 'The real Anthony Fauci' is a riveting read. wait for it..... MISINFORMATION!!!! 
Good lord, can you please either write in a straightforward manner that allows people to understand your point of view or just have a thread of your own and stop filling this one and the general election one with your tripe!!
I don’t mind reading points of view I disagree with but I really dislike posting obscure nonsense with allusions to complicated theories but no actual viewpoint elucidated.
If you have a point to make, just make it and stop trying to show clever and well read you are. It really doesn’t do you any credit.
Dave
It's worth bearing in mind that Dan once posted a link to a blog that contained 'proof' that the COVID vaccine contained a microchip... I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect coherent sense.
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Funnily enough this quote I just found, by Martine Rothblatt, sums up part of the message of the book-
‘I’m transcending the border of my body to connect with a greater creator collectivity. I’m transcending white or black to just be a person. I’m transcending flesh to be a consciousness. I’m transcending Earth to be part of the galaxy. I’m transcending limitations to be unlimited.‘
Now get yourself down the Terasem chapel and transcend to the digital Omega point! 😆
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Back to the election - the pundits at Unherd seem to agree with my analysis. I’d can also recommend the Peter Singer interview ‘how to live better’
https://youtu.be/tfDJq-whDac?feature=shared
YouTube truly has done a power of good for the hygiene of public spaces. In days of old these sorts of analyses were normally written on walls in human shit.
I hope you cleaned your finger afterwards
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Notes on Complexity is Ok, although at times it feels like the author is working in political metaphors to support his own belief systems. One of the strongest proponents of philosophical idealism is Bernardo Kastrup who’s book - why materialism is baloney, does a better job of explaining it. One of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in this field is Rupert Sheldrake’s ‘The Science Delusion’ where he describes looking for consciousness in the brain as akin to looking for a TV program in the back of the set.
Personally I’m a bit drained with the hard problem of consciousness exploration, lots of it seems to be about men trying to find and replicate ‘God’. Ray Kurzweil and Martine Rothblatt must be waiting with baited breath.
I prefer Roger Scruton’s analysis that whatever the answer is, it’s not to be found in words but in how we interface with the ‘world’ in a non symbolic and symbolic way.
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« Last post by chriss on Today at 03:05:13 pm »
Doing his dad proud. What a racer.
Was just thinking this might get me a puntering. His dad as in his family, obviously his uncle was the one and only Joey.
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« Last post by Will Hunt on Today at 02:22:06 pm »
Back to the election - the pundits at Unherd seem to agree with my analysis. I’d can also recommend the Peter Singer interview ‘how to live better’
https://youtu.be/tfDJq-whDac?feature=shared
YouTube truly has done a power of good for the hygiene of public spaces. In days of old these sorts of analyses were normally written on walls in human shit.
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