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What would active time be?  How could a single person access it, or a small group, or a huge population? What would its ties be to consciousness? How could we compare pouvoir and puissance in time by distinguishing between agency and freedom?... 2/4
Ethical frameworks emerge FROM the world, as self organizing systems- rather than existing as a priori conditions in the world given by immutable and divine laws.  The simple possibility for an ethic, in fact  for awareness at all- resides in the ability of systems to...

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Example: Aifred Health is a prize winning AI assistant set out to tailor mental-health treatments using deep learning.
As the psychoanalytical divan gets discarded into the shadows, we delve further & further into standardized practices that treat mental pathologies within... 2/4
...new thresholds of impersonality. The cold dismissal of therapist/patient relationships now proudly sports the coruscating seal of approval stipulated by the pharmaceutical industry. Algorithmic avatars will now take the lead by designing pharmacological treatments by...

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Following from the ThoughtLab’s previous post, and keeping-up its ‘pre’post·erous unfolding, this third ThoughtLab-thought has to do with space [[i.e. positing ‘positions’]] in addition to time [[i.e. dealing with ‘durations’]]—in this case with ‘superpositions’ and... 2/4
...the ‘stacking’ of spacetime{s} afforded by new kinds of computing: namely quantum rather than classical computing/machine-learning. In Frank Herbert’s novel Dune, his humans-of-the-future can physically and conceptually ‘fold space’ with the assistance of accelerating...

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Will images and projections from #Science replace all need for personal experimentation, as we end up seeing all the obscure processes of our consciousness, clearly & lucidly outside of us? Will this conjunction of #art and science lead to new types of... 2/4
...lucidity, a clear-headed thinking, where altered consciousness will be viewed with aesthetic fascination, rather than with compulsive physiological dependency? We will continue to see what was so far invisible.
#aesthetics #image #future

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A choreographer (a singer, a reader, a thinker, a, a, a) sets something in motion—a refrain machine. He begins by presenting a body, a voice, sliding across a range of registers--reciting poetry, singing, expressing poetic nuance in vocalizations,... 2/4
...expressing, gesturing, moving, dancing. These words are too static to capture the quality of the in-between which is the fullness of what becomes present in Bsides. The slippery chain, the refrain, of yet another collaboration, makes it impossible, wondrously so,...