Wednesday, December 04, 2013
dopamine hegemony depends on the wattles...,
By CNu at December 04, 2013 0 comments
Labels: dopamine , hegemony , Livestock Management , the wattles , What IT DO Shawty...
believer brains vs. non-believer brains - a smidgeon of interesting data...,
By CNu at December 04, 2013 0 comments
Labels: neuromancy , not a good look , theoconservatism
just say no...,
By CNu at December 04, 2013 0 comments
Labels: killer-ape , not a good look , unintended consequences
the ways of lust
By CNu at December 04, 2013 0 comments
Labels: killer-ape , What IT DO Shawty...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
now you just KNOW the pope is on the right track...,
You know, the pope, Pope Francis -- this is astounding -- has issued an official papal proclamation, and it's sad. It's actually unbelievable. The pope has written, in part, about the utter evils of capitalism. And I have to tell you, I've got parts of it here I can share with you. It's sad because this pope makes it very clear he doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to capitalism and socialism and so forth. Wait 'til you hear it.
Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as 'a new tyranny' and beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality, in a document on Tuesday setting out a platform for his papacy and calling for a renewal of the Catholic Church. ... In it, Francis went further than previous comments criticizing the global economic system, attacking the 'idolatry of money.'"
I gotta be very careful. I have been numerous times to the Vatican. It wouldn't exist without tons of money. But regardless, what this is, somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him. This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope. Unfettered capitalism? That doesn't exist anywhere. Unfettered capitalism is a liberal socialist phrase to describe the United States. Unfettered, unregulated.
By CNu at December 03, 2013 1 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , Peak Capitalism
Monday, December 02, 2013
in praise of greed, envy, IQ...,
By CNu at December 02, 2013 8 comments
Labels: big don special , cultural darwinism , eugenics , not a good look
from dust-to-dust...,
By CNu at December 02, 2013 0 comments
Labels: ecosystems , Farmer Brown , food supply , microcosmos
pretending it's not fukushima...,
By CNu at December 02, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Great Filters , unspeakable
Sunday, December 01, 2013
can capitalists afford recovery - the presentation
By CNu at December 01, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Peak Capitalism
we are suffering a slow-motion nuclear war...,
By CNu at December 01, 2013 0 comments
Labels: unspeakable
Saturday, November 30, 2013
the god father of ecstasy...,
Working from a lab in his home, and using himself and his wife Ann as test subjects, Shulgin's discoveries have brought him into conflict with the law but made him a worldwide underground hero. The two books they co-authored, "Pihkal" and "Tihkal", have built a foundation for cutting-edge neuroscience and medical research. DIRTY PICTURES examines the impact of Dr. Shulgin's lifelong quest to unlock the complexities of the human mind.
{Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA, more commonly known as Esctasy. Considered to be one of the the greatest chemists of the twentieth century, Sasha's vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research. By employing unorthodox methods; testing his creations on himself, working from a makeshift lab in his home, Shulgin has gained the reputation of a modern day alchemist within the scientific community}
By CNu at November 30, 2013 0 comments
Labels: alkahest , entheogenesis , Living Memory
making a killing
By CNu at November 30, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Livestock Management , neuromancy
if psychiatric motives were benign, why didn't psychiatry dismantle the war on drugs and fully explore entheogens?
By CNu at November 30, 2013 0 comments
Friday, November 29, 2013
maturana and varela: the biology of cognition
Living systems are not just static structures. We ascribe 'life' to them because they're dynamic. We can find another sort of circularity in their internal operations. These internal operations are 'circularly' interconnected in the same sense that the components are. There is something about the identity and unity of a living system which is maintained by these internal operations -- something which can be influenced by events in the living system's environment, but which is specific to the living system itself. You can move the living system to another environment, but (so long as it can successfully survive) this circularly-interconnected network of internal operations will persist. These operations evidences no intrinsic 'purpose' beyond maintenance of the living system's constitutional and configurational integrity.
The course of actions ('responses') observed for a given living system exhibits a sort of circularity in the sense it is (at least partially) repetitive. The exact trajectory of these courses of action is mediated 'internally' by the organism's capacities for action. In other words, what the organism will do (and remain living) will be circumscribed by the range of things the organism can do. Because these capacities are in turn qualified by the living system's circularities of form, configuration and internal operations, similar circumstances will result in similar actions.
Correspondingly, the course of situational transitions affecting the organism ('stimuli') is mediated 'externally' by those potentials the world affords. Even though it is the organism's own configuration which determines its capacities for action (and hence its specific actions), the 'environment' influences the overall course or trajectory of the situations encountered, and hence the series of resulting actions. As such, there is a 'circularity' in the reciprocal interplay between the living system and its 'environment'.
The 'circle' of this interplay cannot be reasonably said to have a starting point (except the point at which the living system originates). It cannot be said to have an ending point (except the point at which the living system ceases to be living). As such, we cannot predict the living system's course of activities based on 'first' or 'last' causes.
Because of this, the course or trajectory of reciprocal engagement between a living system and its observed 'environment' is not reducible to exclusive determination by one or the other.
By CNu at November 29, 2013 17 comments
Labels: paradigm , Possibilities
the neverending eugenic quest...,
By CNu at November 29, 2013 0 comments
Labels: cultural darwinism , essence , music?
Thursday, November 28, 2013
black sun rising in the land of the rising sun...,
By CNu at November 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Race and Ethnicity , The Hardline
fukushima spurs approval of japanese secrecy law...,
By CNu at November 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: clampdown , unspeakable
could tepco's removal of fuel rods from unit 4 be a complete charade?
By CNu at November 28, 2013 5 comments
Labels: Possibilities , propaganda , unspeakable
lack of replacement is a nation killer...,
There is also talk about mass immigration in this same segment of the documentary - and the Japanese will have none of it.
Water, energy, pollution - the unspeakable - are all acute problems for Japan - BUT it is the finances which will not support resolution of these fundamental problems. With the globe all interconnected financially these days, and not likely to change, it is a problem which the Japanese will not be able to overcome.
By CNu at November 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Race and Ethnicity
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
legibility
- Look at a complex and confusing reality, such as the social dynamics of an old city
- Fail to understand all the subtleties of how the complex reality works
- Attribute that failure to the irrationality of what you are looking at, rather than your own limitations
- Come up with an idealized blank-slate vision of what that reality ought to look like
- Argue that the relative simplicity and platonic orderliness of the vision represents rationality
- Use authoritarian power to impose that vision, by demolishing the old reality if necessary
- Watch your rational Utopia fail horribly
By CNu at November 27, 2013 0 comments
Labels: de-evolution , governance , reality casualties
Trash Israeli Professional Boxer Spitting On And Beating On Kids At UCLA...,
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