“They call it Christianity. I call it consciousness.” —Emerson
via the church and postmodern culture: conversation, in a post on multitasking.via the church and postmodern culture: conversation, in a post on multitasking.
theFWD submission #5
[a piece of speculative futurism for the Future We Deserve collaborative book project] Monastech Monastech is how monasticism interfaces with technology to help us build the future we deserve. Monastech helps you grow your own Otherhood—create your very own monastic order—or monasticize your existing community’s future. It is an open-source monastic university, an online cyber-monastic community, ...
Profile: Mirabai Bush and the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
From Zen Peacemakers: Mirabai Bush is Senior Fellow and the founding Director of the Center on Contemplative Mind in Society, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage contemplative awareness in American life in order to create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society. She has designed and led contemplative trainings for corporations from Monsanto ...
The Chronicle Review » The Objective Study of Subjectivism
The Objective Study of Subjectivism – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Brian Knutson, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University: Thanks to accelerating technological advances, however, the gap between the objective and the subjective is closing fast. Scientists are beginning to objectively study subjectivity. By “subjectivity,” I refer here ...
New Scientist interviews Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek was interviewed in New Scientist. He calls for a deeper collaboration between philosophy and science: Should philosophers be helping scientists? Yes. For the last few decades, at least in the humanities, big ontological questions – What is reality? What is the nature of the universe? – were considered too naive. It was ...
Experimental Metaphysics? « Larval Subjects .
I’m imagining a Universal Otherhood for Experimental Metaphysics… Everything becomes a matter of signs, propositions, representations, texts, and contents. However, what role do practices play in philosophy? This role, if it is indeed crucial, would tend to disappear in philosophical texts, leaving only subterranean traces of nonhuman encounters– perhaps what Deleuze would call “becoming-x’s” –that deeply ...
Links for August 22nd 2010
[Art Monasticism, Elements of monasticism » Study] via the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies (IEET) » In this animation from the Royal Society of Arts, Matthew Taylor explores the idea of a 21st Century Enlightenment that would “champion a more self-aware, socially embedded model of autonomy that recognizes our frailties and limitations,” and “expand ...
Sentient Developments: David Chalmers » Consciousness is not substrate dependent
As I noted in another post, I have a hunch that monastic tools (specifically the intensive meditation and other mental training that monasteries afford) will play a vital role in steering the course of technology in decades to come. For example, in fields of genetics and cognitive, neuro-, computer, and information science—folks who are working ...
