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Tag Archives: Neuroscience
The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
By Clifton Mark Source: Aeon ‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack Obama, inaugural address, 2013 ‘We must … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bill Gates, Discrimination, Economics, Failure, Gratitude, Labor, Luck, Meritocracy, Neuroscience, Privilege, psychology, Robert Frank, Selfishness, Skill, Success, Work
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Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better
By Gerald Coles Source: CounterPunch Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Bill Gates, charter schools, Common Core, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, No Child Left Behind, Pedagogy, Poverty, privatization
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Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction
By Madeleine Bunting Source: Rise Up Times “Are you paying attention?” The phrase still resonates with a particular sharpness in my mind. It takes me straight back to my boarding school, aged thirteen, when my eyes would drift out the … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Health, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Attention, big data, Consciousness, culture, Herbert Marcuse, media, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Philosophy, politics, psychology, Smart Phones, Social Media, society, Sociology, technology, Timothy Leary
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Our Bigoted Brains
By Eleanor Goldfield Source: Popular Resistance If you’ve ever moved beyond small talk and vapid pleasantries in conversation then you’ve likely dealt with the infuriating occurrence of trying to convince someone of a fact they just don’t want to accept. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, black ops, censorship, CIA, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, education, freedom of speech, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, Ararchism, Backfire Effect, Bigotry, CIA, corporate news, Mainstream Media, Neuroscience, propaganda, racism, Revolution
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Alex Schlegel on Imagination, the Brain and ‘the Mental Workspace’
By Rob Hopkins Source: Resilience What happens in the brain when we’re being imaginative? Neuroscientists are moving away from the idea of what’s called ‘localisationism’ (the idea that each capacity of the brain is linked to a particular ‘area’ of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Brain, Consciousness, Creativity, Dreams, Education, Health, Imagination, Mind, Neuroscience, science
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I Participate
By Jonathan Bessette Source: Adbusters Recall that you’re sitting in a rapid transit vehicle, carried along the sky-line above cement highways, paved in homage to the Romans, who designed a system of militarized paths stretching everywhere, causing everything to lead … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Revolution, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Work
Tagged civilization, Conformity, Consciousness, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Dystopia, Economics, environment, industrial society, Information, Jacques Ellul, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, Occupy Movement, Philosophy, politics, Revolution, Science fiction, Technological Society, technology
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Fear our new robot overlords: This is why you need to take artificial intelligence seriously
Killer computers determined to kill us? Nope. Forget “Terminator” — there’s something more specific to worry about By Phil Torres Source: Salon There are a lot of major problems today with tangible, real-world consequences. A short list might include terrorism, … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, Health, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged AGI, AI, Artificial General Intelligence, artificial intelligence, Die Off, Dystopia, Economics, Human Extinction, Neuroscience, Superintelligence, The Terminator
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