" Heterarchy is a fairly powerful term that may become increasingly trendy, and I coin the term `reticulocracy' to describe non-heirarchical forms of social organization.

...The idea that reality is modular seems a slight mis-statement. What appear to be modularly hierarchical are models of reality.

The term "hierarchy" may not be descriptive of "Strange Loops" or circular structures in which feedback exists, and which frequently lead to inferential oscillations. There is nothing that prevents such structures from being constructed, either in meme-space or in physical/neural reality. "

"The notion of Language and Intelligence as emergent phenomena in sufficiently complex turbulent systems implies that evolution can be stimulated by increasing the levels of both complexity and chaos.

As ancient cultures used available materials (psychotropic plants, cave painting, dance, ritual, crystals, sacred sites, megaliths) post-industrial cybernetic cultures use the available technology (computers, neurochemistry, electronic media, genetic engineering, holography, money) to access and explore new psycho-spiritual dimensions.

... these are the raw materials from which new shamanic practices are being fabricated."

" In a heirarchy, power is maximally concentrated, and in a network power is maximally distributed.

It may be possible to implement some of the feedback processes that are currently embodied as institutional governments by replacing government with a densly interconnected communication network.

... A network is immune to coups or attack because it has no center. "

" One of the less publicized protocols for psychdelic therapy was the so called "hypnodelic" approach, in which LSD was combined with hypnosis.

Lately I've been wondering if it's possible or reasonable to resume research into psychedelic states by using hypnosis to evoke (or re-evoke) a full-blown peak experience in drug-sophisticated or even drug-naive subjects. "

" The linguistic processes of one's mind grasp at straws, creating forced metaphors to desperately project meaning onto chaotic language constructs: ...Frequencing Wareheads Undulight Musicolorated Archedelic Represearch uninto Disincentered Occulture Associety. Periend. "

" From a collection of chord progressions are deduced the root motion and chord type transition rules.
These rules are then used to generate new chord progressions.

This is a totally reductionist approach to writing chord progressions, ... good for exploring the unexpected possiblities implied by certain styles or songwriters. The program just cranks them out; one has to scan for interesting fragments, and then put them in an appropriate musical context, modify promising segments toward ones own purposes, use them to stimulate ones musical sensibilities, induce artificial culture shock, or explore eccentric new harmonic languages. "

"...existence of a nervous system does not imply the existence of a brain. It may be a mistake to imply that there is a centralized identity in Nature, even though nature is composed of a conscious network of life. The same argument applys to "God" in Nature or the universe. Nested levels of complexity do not imply centralized "supreme" intelligence at the top of a heirarchy."

" The "information superhighway" is an attempt to squeeze all information through proprietary channels, is intended to create "value" by enforcing artificial scarcity. While a network is superficially the image of decentralization and heterarchy, this embodiment of network as real-estate is an act of centralization, a perpetuation of the empire of property.

How to create a network that is as protean and ephemeral as the information which moves through it and gives it form? Such a network would spawn nodes and connections within a continuously mutating topology. Immune to central control, immune even to mapping, such a network would re-shape itself to the desires of the people connected to it, to the contours of information and meaning flowing between them. "

" Intellectual property as a form of artificial scarcity. Information is negentropic by definition ... Since information can be copied without limit and without reducing the original "supply" from which it is copied, information can never be scarce unless it is deliberately withheld.

Our relationship to this unbounded abundance of information resembles our relationship with nature before the invention of agriculture: an information economy is a hunting-gathering economy.

Money is stored violence, tokens of a wealth gradient maintained by armed force. The world does owe you a living, but it can't fullfill its contract because it's occupied territory.

It is not information that is scarce, but sources of new information that are scarce. If an idea does not exist, it cannot be copied. If value is a function of scarcity and demand, the only thing valuable in an information economy is the means to create new ideas: novelty. "

" Artists, like astronauts take risks in order to experience and explore new, often bizarre, realities and make them tangible to others.

Fine arts, like the space program, generate spinoffs that are later appropriated and exploited by entrepreneurs, but in the case of artists the spinoffs are cultural or conceptual in nature, manifesting in the commercial realm as styles or attitudes. Advertising imitates Art.

In the process of creating new languages and metaphors, in articulating their experience to evoke experience in others, in actualizing a work of art, artists also engage in research and development.

The expressive-evokative tactics developed by artists often have applications and implications well beyond the scope of their original work. "

"... Ecstatic agonies result from carrying primitive biological drives into extremely energized spiritual dimensions, possibly inappropriately. Dissonance and Resonance between the Svadisthana and Anahata chakras. The neural resonances of the vertebrate midbrain/limbic system experienced independently of the meat in which they echo. "

"... there, breath and whirling cease... "

" Language acquisition and translation involves mapping between systems of meaning, whether between percepts of different sensory modes, between direct experience and symbols, or between sets of verbal encodings.

One aspect of such mappings is that the boundaries and clustering of meanings in each system may be quite different. In human languages this is most apparent in prepositions, in systems of homonyms and in alternative meanings for individual words.

The existence of homonyms, ambiguity and multiple connotations and meanings for individual words reflects the predicament of encoded language in general: a finite lexicon of discrete words is required to represent a continuous field of infinite meanings. In order to speak in words and sentences of manageable length, with a finite vocabulary, individual words must carry multiple meanings.

Ambiguity is intrinsic to language. "

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