I would say it’s probably safe to say that Science and Technology are important. But where does the line get crossed as far as dehumanizing us? I’m not even talking about God or, for that matter, spirituality. This Guy would reduce us –all our art, language, aesthetics, love, hate, imagination, desire, and thought — down to little more than a combination of feedback and looped electricity.

I can’t help but feel a little saddened by that idea: that there is nothing deeper to the human mind than mangled echoes and static. Nietzsche already killed God, but to now also kill the human spirit seems incredibly wrong. Aesthetic would cease to exist and art would become little more than the result of mental illness. While I realize that my mind is a very complex machine (and a very elegant one at that) I also tend to believe that consciousness is not inherent from the movement of said cogs –they are the manner in which the consciousness expresses itself.

The complex and elegant machine that is the mind is the result of consciousness; consciousness is not the result of a complex machine –to say otherwise would reduce us to cruel and bitter cockroaches. I’m not saying that their experiment should be halted or that it’s not worthwhile –just that I fear the results.

Have a nice day. I’ll may write some more about this later.

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3. Human progress
4. Primary Sources & The Human Psychedelic Experience
5. The Xmas spirit