spidergoat
04-11-07, 04:04 PM
Wouldn't it be interesting if Sciforums used a format like this?
http://www.mindjet.com/us/
This software is a more visual/intuitive way to interact with information. Now imagine if this was in true 3D. Our discussions, instead of a boring list, would create a three-dimensional object in cyberspace, like a tree. Now imagine it incorporates color, images, applications, animations, and of course links. It would almost be a new language.
Doesn't that sound like Terence McKenna's description here:
Humanity’s post-Logos apotheosis will be precipitated, says McKenna, by the arrival of "the transcendental object at the end of time." A cross between the enigmatic monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey and de Chardin’s Omega Point (an evolutionary epiphany that marks the arrival of an "Ultra-Humanity"), McKenna’s transcendental object is, in his words, a "cosmic singularity"---a term from chaos theory which refers to the transition point, in a dynamical system, between one state and another. Evolution, he asserts, ..., is poised to break free of "the chrysalis of matter...and then look back on a cast-off mode of being as it rises into a higher dimension."
and this:
[Marshall] McLuhan holds forth the McKenna-esque hope that the psychic convergence facilitated by electronic media could create the universality of consciousness foreseen by Dante when he predicted that men would continue as no more than broken fragments until they were unified into an inclusive consciousness. In a Christian sense, this is merely a new interpretation of the mystical body of Christ; and Christ, after all, is the ultimate extension of man...I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will...himself...become an organic art form. ...
Likewise, for McKenna, a self-styled "mouthpiece for the incarnate Logos," history will only achieve closure when the disembodying technology of language is at last re-embodied---when the Word is made flesh, in other words.
?
We could all chip in and buy a copy of the mindjet software, and use it in a similar way to the wikipedia format.
http://www.mindjet.com/us/
This software is a more visual/intuitive way to interact with information. Now imagine if this was in true 3D. Our discussions, instead of a boring list, would create a three-dimensional object in cyberspace, like a tree. Now imagine it incorporates color, images, applications, animations, and of course links. It would almost be a new language.
Doesn't that sound like Terence McKenna's description here:
Humanity’s post-Logos apotheosis will be precipitated, says McKenna, by the arrival of "the transcendental object at the end of time." A cross between the enigmatic monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey and de Chardin’s Omega Point (an evolutionary epiphany that marks the arrival of an "Ultra-Humanity"), McKenna’s transcendental object is, in his words, a "cosmic singularity"---a term from chaos theory which refers to the transition point, in a dynamical system, between one state and another. Evolution, he asserts, ..., is poised to break free of "the chrysalis of matter...and then look back on a cast-off mode of being as it rises into a higher dimension."
and this:
[Marshall] McLuhan holds forth the McKenna-esque hope that the psychic convergence facilitated by electronic media could create the universality of consciousness foreseen by Dante when he predicted that men would continue as no more than broken fragments until they were unified into an inclusive consciousness. In a Christian sense, this is merely a new interpretation of the mystical body of Christ; and Christ, after all, is the ultimate extension of man...I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will...himself...become an organic art form. ...
Likewise, for McKenna, a self-styled "mouthpiece for the incarnate Logos," history will only achieve closure when the disembodying technology of language is at last re-embodied---when the Word is made flesh, in other words.
?
We could all chip in and buy a copy of the mindjet software, and use it in a similar way to the wikipedia format.