heliocentric
09-25-07, 04:22 PM
Without experience, you’re quite literally nowt - ‘I think therefore I am’.
Experience allows us to function as the dogged survivors we tend to romantically think of ourselves as.
We use our experience to synthesise reality into a sub-divided chronologically driven survival-matrix, converting raw reality into a huge smelly, noisy, blinding phenomenal-factory of potential resources.
In fact if evolutional psychologists are to be believed the only reason we even have consciousness and phenomenal experiences in the first place is so we can effectively recognise and exploit the natural resources around us.
These days however (unless your name is Ray Mears) instead of using experience to exploit the available natural resources. We spend the vast majority of our time plumbing the available artificial resources of tabulated and archived information - lacing daily experience with information we believe will give us the edge tomorrow.
As a species now forever hooked on perverting and stretching the capabilities of our own minds. We’re probably no different from the programmer ‘hacking’ the software or the musician ‘circuit-bending’ the instrument in order to realise new possibilities beyond the intended purpose.
The pioneer circuit bender Reed Ghazala’s philosophy of circuit bending can in fact be applied just as easily to our periodic data-mining as it can to the fringe art of diode and transistor swapping.
“The role of hardware hacking in EM is - evolution. It is the force of speculation upon constants, a survival tactic as well as a special poetry. Bending the norm equals progress, and that is life.”
In other words – he who sees the new possibility in the hardware takes the next leap in evolution.
And as a species we’ve been riding the momentum of that high-jump ever since we first learnt to use our vocal chords to express ideas.......
full article below
http://culturespam.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/hijacking-experience
:)
Experience allows us to function as the dogged survivors we tend to romantically think of ourselves as.
We use our experience to synthesise reality into a sub-divided chronologically driven survival-matrix, converting raw reality into a huge smelly, noisy, blinding phenomenal-factory of potential resources.
In fact if evolutional psychologists are to be believed the only reason we even have consciousness and phenomenal experiences in the first place is so we can effectively recognise and exploit the natural resources around us.
These days however (unless your name is Ray Mears) instead of using experience to exploit the available natural resources. We spend the vast majority of our time plumbing the available artificial resources of tabulated and archived information - lacing daily experience with information we believe will give us the edge tomorrow.
As a species now forever hooked on perverting and stretching the capabilities of our own minds. We’re probably no different from the programmer ‘hacking’ the software or the musician ‘circuit-bending’ the instrument in order to realise new possibilities beyond the intended purpose.
The pioneer circuit bender Reed Ghazala’s philosophy of circuit bending can in fact be applied just as easily to our periodic data-mining as it can to the fringe art of diode and transistor swapping.
“The role of hardware hacking in EM is - evolution. It is the force of speculation upon constants, a survival tactic as well as a special poetry. Bending the norm equals progress, and that is life.”
In other words – he who sees the new possibility in the hardware takes the next leap in evolution.
And as a species we’ve been riding the momentum of that high-jump ever since we first learnt to use our vocal chords to express ideas.......
full article below
http://culturespam.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/hijacking-experience
:)