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Leili (F) Immortal since May 15, 2007 Uplinks: 0, Generation 1 |
tranquility of emotions makes perfect the fruit called simplicity.
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Designing Science Fiction...
The course will be loosely inspired by the movie (and the book) The Man who Fell to Earth in which David Bowie plays an extraterrestrial visitor... Now playing
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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.
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Earth is the only known planet that offers life: a natural system of energy and matter making different forms, structures and patterns that respond to the changing environmental conditions. As Rupert Sheldrake argues in A New Science of Life: ‘In the most general terms, form and energy bear an inverse relationship to each other: energy is the principle of change, but a form or structure can only exist as long as it has a certain stability and resistance to change.’
While the possibilities for pattern and form that matter or elementary substances propose are infinite, life is a struggle of energies over choosing the right network to move through matter. So the life span of an individual organ or organism is determined by its response and engagement to the natural system. In this context, function or activity should select the right network to win its way through time and space. Unless energy and matter loose touch with each other and death occurs. In this case if the dead body is surrounded by living energies its substances unfold themselves in the bio-system and return to the cycle of life.
In this system, birth and death follow the same value since no single organism, as part of a greater generation, is complete by itself. Each body, in each generation, contributes to form, function and the surrounding and surpasses its current values. The beauty of this system is that the formation of each modality in the process of growth is a constant response and adaptation to the environment. While distinguishing values from non-values consciously and unconsciously influences its mode of existence. If a breathing form fails to adapt its codes through time, its modality disappears from the face of our biosphere. This also applies to the cultures around the world as similar evolution has happened in the context of all dependent texts: genetic codes and human languages.
Herein being human is the same general coded plan as of all mammals with one exceptional quality that appears to be more degree of free will than other species. That has led mankind to habituate nature by analytical observations and therefore tooling in order to have a longer and happier life in a safer and more nutritious surrounding than that of our ancestors.
Now, having all the great advances in tooling, technology and knowledge of our environment, we know that we can add nothing foreign to the thinking. What we think and create emerges from our genetic text, language and the environment we put ourselves into. We have the opportunity to realize that our ideas and actions have their values beyond the moral judgments of institutes and constitutions and far beyond our momentary desires and pleasures since they are not just at the place of presence and that they can be made to grow and evolve through space and time.
First he appeared in the realm inanimate;
Thence came into the world of plants and lived
The plant-life many a year, nor called to mind
What he had been; then took the onward way
To animal existence, and once more
Remembers naught of what life vegetive,
Save when he feels himself moved with desire
Towards it in the season of sweet flowers,
As babes that seek the breast and know not why.
Again the wise Creator whom thou knowest
Uplifted him from animality
To Man's estate; and so from realm to realm
Advancing, he became intelligent,
Cunning and keen of wit, as he is now.
No memory of his past abides with him,
And from his present soul he shall be changes.
Though he is fallen asleep, God will not leave him
In this forgetfulness. Awakened, he
Will laugh to think what troublous dreams he had.
And wonder how his happy state of being
He could forget, and not perceive that all
Those pains and sorrows were the effect of sleep
And guile and vain illusion. So this world
Seems lasting, though 'tis but the sleepers' dream;
Who, when the appointed Day shall dawn, escapes
From dark imaginings that haunted him,
And turns with laughter on his phantom griefs
When he beholds his everlasting home.
R. A. Nicholson
'Persian Poems', an Anthology of verse translations
edited by A.J.Arberry, Everyman's Library, 1972
doesnt this give a hint for how a parallel universe could exist?gravity has bonded us to our optical illusions!
the imaginary is a familiar!
words are codes...
words are codes...
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