Creativity, evolution of mind and the "vertigo of freedom"
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JASON SILVA AND TECHNO-ECOLOGIC SCHOLAR RICHARD DOYLERichard Doyle also goes by mobius, an indicator of just how important interconnections are to him – and how transformative, bedeviling and hypnotic his ideas can be. As a professor of English and science, technology, and society at Pennsylvania State University, he has taught courses in the history and rhetoric of the emerging technosciences – sustainability, space colonization, biotechnology, nanotechnology, psychedelic science, information technologies, biometrics – and the cultural and literary contexts from which they sprout. An explorer of the exciting and confusing rhetorical membrane between humans and an informational universe, he argues that in co-evolution with technology, we find ourselves in an evolutionary ecology that is as vital as it is unexplored.
In Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants and the Evolution of The Noösphere , the transhumanist philosopher focuses on his favorite technology: the psychedelic, “ecodelic” plants and chemicals (read: drugs) that can help make us process more information and make us aware of the effect of language and music and nature on our consciousness, thereby offering us an awareness of our own ability to effect our own consciousness through our linguistic and creative choices. And that, from an evolutionary perspective, is simply sexy.
JASON: Your new book Darwin’s Pharmacy talks about the relationship between psychedelic plants and the accelerating evolution of the “noosphere”, which some define as the knowledge substrate of reality, the invisible, informational dimension of collective intelligence and human knowledge. Is this more or less accurate?
(2) As integral parts of the human toolkit, ecodelics are best modeled as part of sexual selection - the competition for mates and the leaving of progeny. A careful look at Charles Darwin's writings on sexual selection will show that sexual selection works through the management of attention - what we would now call "information technologies." Think birdsong, bioluminescence ( the most widespread communication technology on the planet), poetry. The peacock is managing and focusing peahen attention with his feathers, so what we have called "mind" has been involved in evolution for a very long time. Mandrilles eat iboga before competing for mates. I work with the notion of the noosphere drawn from V.I. Vernadsky, and propose that we define it as the collective effect of attention of ecosystems. Psychedelics seem to draw our attention to the whole. Ecodelics dwindle the broadcast of the ego – it is not very good at perceiving the whole, just as we can't, unlike a butterfly, taste with our feet. With the ego dwindled, we can become aware of the noosphere - the message of the whole. This has particular importance as we grapple with the effects of human consciousness and its externalization in technology on the biosphere.
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JASON: The film Vanilla Sky explored the notion of a scientifically-induced "lucid dream" where we can live forever and our world is built out of our memories and "sculpted moment to moment and lived with the romantic abandon of a summer day or the
Description: Peonies are an old-fashioned perennial that seem to live forever with little care. They are often passed along from one generation to another. The plants typically have a height and spread of 28 to 36 inches. The blooms may be 10 inches or
New York State Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak is joined by Patricia Wojcik's family as they help to plant the tree at the Cheektowaga Senior Center. The tree will live on in Wojcik's dedication and committment to the center as well as the seniors it
The open exposure meant any plant would receive intense sunlight during the summer and freezing temperatures during the winter. Not a good spot at all, except for peculiar plants like Canyon Liveforever. These plants shout, “Bring it on”!
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Live forever on a Plant-Based diet. Go-Meatless the facts are out ...
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Finally what I have been telling my friends and family for years is coming to light. A plant based diet is the only proven way to stay healthy long term. Dr. OZ is telling everybody about this now. You don’t need Meat, fish or Chicken for Iron and protein. Read about the China Study 20 years of research on nutrition. We have been mislead and miss informed for years.
The groundbreaking book, The China Study , authored by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, reveals what can be described as a startling, yet wholly intuitive, relationship between nutrition and disease. Dr. Campbell found that a whole-foods, plant-based diet can not only lower your risk for certain diseases, it can reverse their progression.
The 20-year China Study allowed Campbell to test and compare laboratory findings against a participating human population. Across China, over 100 villages participated – and the findings were consistent: a high consumption of animal-based foods is associated with more chronic disease, while those eating primarily a plant-based diet were the healthiest.
The key of this nutritional dietary overhaul: avoiding meat, dairy and processed foods.
Meatless Protein
Animal protein, including fish, delivers a heavy dose of saturated fat and cholesterol , which can put you at risk for heart disease. Saturated fats raise your cholesterol and, over time, attack arteries leading to strokes and heart attacks. As a source of omega-3 fatty acids, fish has long been touted as one of the staples of a healthy diet, however 15-30% of fish is saturated fat.
Instead, get protein from beans, like pinto beans, black beans and kidney beans. Beans also contain soluble fiber that helps lower cholesterol. Click here for recipe ideas featuring the cholesterol-fighting power of beans.
Whole grains, such as quinoa , amaranth and millet are also good sources of protein. Nuts, including walnuts, pistachios and almonds are all high in protein.
You can also get protein from vegetables. For instance, broccoli is 30% protein in addition to containing highly absorbable calcium.
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RT : me and Claudia once tried to hide in the plant pot trees in once as we wanted to live there foreverLive Forever Plant - Bookshelf
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LIVE-FOREVER (Sedum) FAMILY - Orpine (Crassulaceae) OTHER NAMES - Stonecrop, Wild Stonecrop, Orpine, Rosecrown, Frog Plant, Rosy-Flowered Stone- crop. ...California plant families, west of the Sierran crest and deserts
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These plants and animals live in a relationship with the earth developed over millenia upon millenia. Redwoods tower along well-watered northern coasts; ...Daily Data Directory
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Information on how to grow Sempervivum species such as Live Forever and St. Patrick's Cabbage in the garden.
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Live forever is a robust and relatively small plant, approximating 20-45 cm. in height. ... Live forever flowers are quite small, measuring 8 mm in width. ...
houseleek (plant) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
houseleek, also called Live-forever, any of numerous low-growing succulent plants constituting the genus Sempervivum, about 40 species, in the ...
Forever Plant Planting Instructions | Garden Guides
The live-forever plant or Allegheny stonecrop (Sedum telephioides) is a succulent that is very drought-tolerant and has small white or purplish pink ...