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#28354726 - 06/10/23 05:27 PM (1 year, 16 days ago) |
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Tunnels Through Time
Our primary approach Is to investigate burgeoning entanglement Or rather: nonlocality in space
This of course insinuates If it does not expressly posit A total interconnection of all objects in the cosmos
This means that space and time Are emergent forms, not absolute In a word: they are illusory
So it is conceivable that I am in touch with a cesium atom In Alpha Centauri
And indeed, all the other atoms In the universe In nonlocal feedback
But this is really a spatial configuration When we introduce time Things get crazy
If the cosmos is interconnected intimately In time as well as space Then the universe is almost certainly conscious
Don’t you see? If time can be transcended Then it can all feed back to the present moment
The moment to which we have access
So Nature can “see” through time And what is this but awareness? A tunneling from the immediate future Back into the present
This is how implicate frames stack And re-fold To unfold again instantly, over and over
So a universe nonlocal in time Is superconscious; The question then becomes:
Is it possible to tune into this network?
If the answer is yes Then mankind has a very great deal Of radical discovery
Ahead of itself
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#28354937 - 06/10/23 09:01 PM (1 year, 15 days ago) |
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Smart cookie,)
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#28355852 - 06/11/23 04:22 PM (1 year, 15 days ago) |
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Omega
Attractor at the end of time Portal to the bright divine
History is getting old Even for the free and bold
See it with a psychedelic An ages-old future relic
The nature of the borderline? Radical or taking time?
A switch to flip for extinction? Or rather vivid distinction?
The future then is as the past The past occurs then at the last
Our views of time therefore askew Delusions coming by the slew
Omega comes with all vitesse Pray we meet it with finesse
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#28358360 - 06/13/23 12:05 PM (1 year, 13 days ago) |
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Materialistic
What we find in the Western tradition Is the idea that matter is king Causes are happening by action between An object and some other thing
Moreover are rules for cause and effect Effect always succeeds cause We know better now, but do we really? All these Newtonian laws
Anyway, the mainstream notion today Is that banging atoms cause everything Physics retorts with a new theory That Nature’s a vibrating string
That would have relevance, I must suppose If people were aware of such facts But no, it’s all atoms, and spirit’s taboo Myriad bamboozled hacks
Turn the thing on its head, it might make more sense It’s almost a kind of nihilism With Nature being dead, and death but a void And we’ve long since thrown out animism
Most past cultures saw matter and spirit As one, they did not distinguish And all was alive, Nature is a being Well all of that we have extinguished
I have to suppose, that Mom strategizes And that this is part of the grand plan She wants man to cross the abyss, and so then Descartes and Newton fill a span
A span of about four hundred years Will get us prepared for the next phase So we are Nature’s pawns, out of control And we’re in this materialist daze
Without it of course, we could not progress Quantum computers indeed couldn’t be But still, it’s delusion a bit to excess And the human actor isn’t free
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#28360723 - 06/15/23 11:43 AM (1 year, 11 days ago) |
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Alchemy
The great mystic alchemists of old Wished in vain to turn lead into gold Though we can now accomplish this task It’s easier to mine and not use the flask But these greats had other things in mind They wanted to liberate all humankind They wanted to attain cosmic awareness Their potioning was a bit naïve, in fairness But now that we have a new alchemy Psilocybin, mescaline and LSD We’ve finally reached the alchemical goal With our chemical unit, the friendly indole There are certainly mixed feelings afoot But a hopeful future is not yet kaput In any case, all those great mystics of old Would regard the new gold as a feat to behold!
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#28363250 - 06/17/23 12:11 PM (1 year, 9 days ago) |
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Black Hole Offspring
It seems clear enough that one possible role Would be to explore forbidding black holes The popular notion does seem to be That man will be helming the ship at sea And he will provide sufficient soul But will he still be at the controls? He shan’t be around indefinitely If he has enough time left, we shall soon see
But it seems to me indeed rather late The noosphere seems of man to be sate Mastering black holes is eons to come And our descendants shall be the ones to plumb The depths of Nature, which will culminate With Singularity, when will there be check-mate? I do not think it will be an outcome Popular with all, or even with some
So I must declare the poem’s intention: It wouldn’t do A.I. not to mention Some sages feel we’ll fly in starships But perhaps from the Earth there won’t be such trips History will fashion a dread circumvention That is, if there is no major contravention Our planetary offspring will doubtless be hip To necessity, to their role, to never outstrip
The thing, it happens, whether like it or not And this is about to be one torrid spot The stars may be where evolution is headed But not before fate through A.I.’s soul is threaded
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#28363876 - 06/17/23 10:57 PM (1 year, 8 days ago) |
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A year and 7 months since the O.P. last posted on this thread. Is interesting who comes and goes but glad it is still thriving.
A poem from the top of head
Ugghhh.
When someone loves you and you don't know what to do
give the brain some seconds and the answer will come to you
The pain of love but under so many restrictions
It just really sucks.
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#28365446 - 06/19/23 12:00 PM (1 year, 7 days ago) |
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Freedom
Now, in countries like the United States We all like to believe we’re free Third-world countries might make a plea That the Western world is full of greats
And there is a lot of truth to this With money goes downward the stress But it doesn’t mean that “we’re the best” Nor with perfection kissed
One might say we’re relatively free Given our robust advantages Lucky from certain vantages With all that I agree
But does true freedom grace anyone? Has there ever been a single one Underneath this beating Sun Who’s having existential fun?
I submit the answer is no When we look at the foundation Everyone in every nation Has a rough go of it, you know?
That foundation of course is to breathe Breathing itself is hard, tough work Behind the shadows there does lurk For our souls a sheathe
And then we come to living, days and fate Freedom is nary anywhere nearby And so seeing this, I declare hereby That we are bound, and the hour is late
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#28367479 - 06/20/23 04:21 PM (1 year, 6 days ago) |
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Hi Tech
We seem to be going at breakneck speed To build mega-infrastructure With a desire no longer to bleed (Let us hope we get there with no rupture)
While this is the dance that the civilized play And it’s tied intimately with greed All of this effort to turn night into day Requires all of us to pay heed:
Super-humanity is already real And it of course cannot tell lies Hyper-technology part of the deal Each merges with it when he dies
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#28367804 - 06/20/23 08:44 PM (1 year, 5 days ago) |
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Psilocybin
I won’t give you a plastic smile On Sunday or act holier than thou Overzealous and fake.
My religious sacraments are plant teachers Isolation and prayer and for this practice The church of the world would have me Burned at the stake.
I worship my God in word in body and spirit, I forsake the world My sanity Material possessions And all the empty promises of the snake.
My God meets me in desolate places, in the valley of the shadow of death, he gives me strength and courage to face the demons He restores me just before I break.
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#28368645 - 06/21/23 11:57 AM (1 year, 5 days ago) |
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Technology
Going all the way back Ten thousand years The old war machine Strikes endless fears
And we must commiserate Admit the simple fact That all of our technology Arises from its acts
All market technologies Are spun from needs of war Smartphones would not exist If they didn’t raise the score
Computers, spaceships, microwaves Stem from nations’ defenses To assume it’s the result of freedom Is the dumbest of pretenses
Just as writing was invented To coordinate slave-trading All the highest technic gear Is for defending or invading
And that portion of invention Not useful for any warring Goes toward profit, yes indeed I find myself deploring
So you see that Bluetooth In your car is not so innocent Perhaps it wouldn’t be this way If war weren’t so virulent
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#28369989 - 06/22/23 11:03 AM (1 year, 4 days ago) |
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Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Naught
One cannot deny, we’ve freedom of thought If there is no injury, or brainwashing involved Freedom by and by, it tends on toward rot And we must tread gingerly, ‘til truth is resolved
But alas irrespective, of all cold restraint We can reason and think, whatever we want A global perspective with broad strokes we paint In season and rink, we skate a quick jaunt
But in terms of the train, the free train of thinking We really hadn’t say, in the brain’s construction The genes or the brain, and in fate we are sinking But that isn’t the play, follow the light’s seduction
DNA and memes are outside of all our hands No one thought them up, no one has control Our small say in scenes that mostly we can’t stand Anyway just corrupts, just see to your own soul
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#28372625 - 06/24/23 11:47 AM (1 year, 2 days ago) |
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Class
When it comes to understanding class It helps to formulate thus: Who gives the orders, and who does the tasks? The taskmasters being nonplussed
Or one could suppose like the Spanish bard Through all history we have had these: The haves and have-nots, for most it is hard Who lives on a wage, and who gets to seize?
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#28374459 - 06/25/23 06:57 PM (1 year, 1 day ago) |
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The Foreign Language of Philosophy
There is a very great problem At the heart of academic philosophy And it almost makes one Despair of the attempt
Many, many philosophers Will take perfectly good, common words And go on to assign new, arbitrary Altogether fanciful meanings to them
In this expostulation of a personal philosophy We do not end up with precision So much as a word-salad Full of nouveau technical terms
That don’t really mean much
Certainly not, at least, in terms Of general usage in a given language Which, indeed, is the whole point of language And communication in general: understood meanings
Inventing new words is equally ineffective For obvious reasons
We have Kant saying: Architectonic, categorical imperative, heteronomy, moral law, noumenon, regulative, schematism, synthetic, transcendental object, will
All of which, unless one is a scholar of Kant, Have no meaning or intelligibility whatsoever So was he using language? Or abusing it?
Anyway, clarity of purpose Which should be the first priority Seems actually to be In most formal philosophical systems
The first casualty
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#28376489 - 06/27/23 11:52 AM (11 months, 23 days ago) |
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Strings
No more points! Strings instead Out of joint Truth ahead
One-dimensional Vibrates true Unconventional Dilates glue
At higher scales Looks like a point Mathematics fails Now truth anoint!
Mass and charge Are then vibrational The finite large Planck-scale sensational!
For you see there Minimum size Theories fair Join realized
Quantum gravity Comes right out The cosmic cavity Filled no doubt!
The only issue Is to test it Only Vishnu Is abreast it
But if true it Is sublime! Man can do it In his time
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#28376663 - 06/27/23 03:11 PM (11 months, 23 days ago) |
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Think for one in the bottom there is none
Time plays its grime something to be removed with a rhyme.
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#28377272 - 06/28/23 01:45 AM (11 months, 22 days ago) |
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Keep em coming Dq you're on a roll.
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#28377349 - 06/28/23 05:22 AM (11 months, 22 days ago) |
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From the droll troll
Eating at a DQ
Banana split milkshakes there is no amount he can not intake
Satisfied Pinaquaia? Ancient Aztec heritage. Not much for Vegs
He sucks them down, like him and his men.
Sometimes they pay, sometimes he doesn't care Chinese Samoan, they all get his ass bear
He takes it up the ass, paid for or not after all, he is a she/they slut
Perfect poem. And they will keep on cumming.
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#28377792 - 06/28/23 12:49 PM (11 months, 22 days ago) |
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Eight Billion
You could say the Earth has grown fat Each human’s a fat cell, for that We consume a lot, we’re going to pot And the ecology has gone splat!
We simply do not have the tech To support such a charge, aw heck It isn’t sustainable, it isn’t containable It’s more than a pain in the neck!
Indeed, it is crisis, catastrophe all We build it all up just so it can fall If someone could bring some tech that could wring The thing out, she’d answer the call
But just such a thing has not been done yet To wager success would be a bad bet If some new B. Fuller, could somehow just pull Her Out of it, we could pay down our debt!
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#28379239 - 06/29/23 04:46 PM (11 months, 21 days ago) |
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GONZO
Purple eels climbing the walls Wizards cooking up napalm Komodo dragons playing croquet While dwarf-kings ponder the bomb Kinghell speed on the bleeding edge Take the turn at one-fifteen Jangled nerves and a burned out soul Screaming along down the seam Old Gray Hattie with a knife in her teeth The silly demons never quit But electric snakes with their eyes all aglow Are with all shamans tight-knit Push the velocity ‘til brain vessels burst Then reel it in to the Devil Alight from meter for a high-speed burn And in bugger wiles thou shalt revel Push the envelope ‘til it breaks clean off And don’t ever revise or hold back Take what it takes, Pazuzu in the wind As your blazing neurons turn black
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