1/ While playing around with our @osventuresllc AI Lab, I glanced to my right and saw "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick" and wondered if you could create a game based on the world Dick builds in this massive tome.
It was a really fun exercise, and here's the first pass
2/ First prompt: "Please create a comprehensive review of "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick" by Philip K. Dick and describe how one might use the insights to build a real-world game based on its views on reality"
1/ From the ever provocative Jed McKenna via JEDVAITA website--"Dreamweaver"
"Dreams feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."
~Dom Cobb, Inception.
2/ "That incessant chatter going on in your head might not be mental pollution, as it seems. It might actually be how you constantly weave your dream state, yourself included, into existence.
3/ Obviously, or maybe not so obviously, your reality has no independent reality. It's all in your head, including your head.
That might be a nice thing about meditation - that you can close your eyes, turn off your brain, and spend some quality time away from the
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
“The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.”
“Time is invention and nothing else.”
“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”
“The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend.”
“Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
“No two moments are identical in a conscious being”
“We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.”
~David Bohm
2/ David Bohm was a quantum physicist whose work focused on understanding the fundamental nature of reality. Bohm's concept of implicate and explicate orders is a way of understanding the relationship between the manifest world we experience and often
3/ think of as “reality” and the underlying system that gives rise to it.
The explicate order is the consensus reality that we share directly. We perceive the world of objects, space, and time with our senses. The explicate order is what we see and experience now,
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”