July 2010
26 posts
“Life and intelligence must never stagnate; it must re-order, transform, and transcend its limits in an unlimited progressive process. Our goal is the exuberant and dynamic continuation of this unlimited process, not the attainment of some final supposedly unlimited condition.”
—Transhumanism: A Futurist Philosophy (via wildcat2030)
“In a literate culture, the words stay the same, but the meanings change from generation to generation, century to century. We have the first text of Shakespeare or Milton, but we don’t have their understanding of those texts. We have our understanding of them. The text is locked down and the meaning has changed. We call that stability. Oral cultures reverse that. This is the way the Internet works. It is more oral in its properties, or it works more like an oral culture.”
—Eric McLuhan: The End of Geography | The X-Journals (via wildcat2030)
“One doesn’t need to invoke Derrida to know that reading a text is often a creative act, that we must constantly impose meaning onto the ambiguity of words.”
—Jonah Lehrer (via xixidu + wildcat2030) (via mxmlsm)
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
—Charles Bukowski (via fuckyeahexistentialism, wildcat2030) (via xixidu)
“Reality […] at every level from photons to philosophical fancies to the consciousness of living organisms was fluid […]. To break apart and confine this reality into separate categories created by the mind was foolish and futile, much like trying to capture a ray of light inside a dark wooden box. This urge to categorize was the true fall of man […] the infinite became finite, good opposed evil, thoughts hardened into beliefs, one’s joys and discoveries became dreadful certainties, man became alienated from what he perceived as other ways and other things, and, ultimately, divided against himself, body and soul. […] Always seeking meaning, always making their lives safe and comfortable, human beings do not truly live.”
—David Zindell, The Broken God
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