folkert’s projects Polytopia The human species is rapidly and indisputably moving towards the technological singularity. The cadence of the flow of information and innovation in... The Total Library Text that redefines... The great enhancement debate What will happen when for the first time in ages different human species will inhabit the earth at the same time? The day may be upon us when people...Now playingSpaceCollective Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction.Introduction Featuring Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, based on an idea by Kees Boeke.
Terence Mckenna on how reality is a novelty making machine and what happens when a bicycle meets a sowing machine on an operating table. In his opinion, Novelty is produced, preserved and built upon, versus Science's theory that it sprang forth from a point of matter smaller than a proton in a single instant."
From the mothernode: Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, philosopher and ethnobotanist. He was most notable for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and other subjects ranging from Shamanism to the origins of the human species to Novelty theory - which claims time to be a fractal wave of increasing novelty that culminates dramatically in 2012. More...
Terence McKenna: "If you were an extra-terrestrial in a starship in orbit around this planet, what you would see looking down is a gene swarm. The species that seem to us to be animal forms extremely stable in time, are actually highly permeable membranes over millennia and tens of millennia, with genes crossing over, moving around, and being basically obedient to the expression of some kind of teleological form."