Feb 15Member-onlyThe Syntellect Hypothesis: The Most Probable Path to Our Future Transcendent Superintelligence“When we look through the other end of the telescope, however, we can see a different pattern. We can make out what I call the One Mind — not a subdivision of consciousness, but the overarching, inclusive dimension to which all the mental components of all individual minds, past, present…Cybernetics22 min readCybernetics22 min read
Jan 24Member-onlyRethinking Relativity: A Surge of Cosmological Inconsistencies Prompts a Reevaluation of Einstein’s Theories“Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.” ―Pascual Jordan Scientists are searching for a theory that would unite quantum mechanics and general relativity. It turns out that quantum mechanics may be more fundamental than previously thought. Some physicists believe that the principles of quantum mechanics…Digital Physics5 min readDigital Physics5 min read
Dec 20, 2022Member-onlyOur Matrix-like Computational Universe: Programmable Realities & Cybernetic Apotheosis“The universality of computation is the most profound thing in the Universe.” — David Deutsch As you may know, I’m a Russian-American futurist, evolutionary cyberneticist and philosopher of mind. …Cybernetics3 min readCybernetics3 min read
Apr 10, 2022Member-onlyA Novel Science of Consciousness: Towards the Cybernetic Theory of Mind“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.” ―Erwin Schrödinger WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? Consciousness remains scientifically elusive because it constitutes layers upon layers of non-material emergence: Reverse-engineering our thinking should be done in terms of…Consciousness9 min readConsciousness9 min read
Nov 28, 2021Member-onlyWith Cyber-Spirituality on the Rise in Silicon Valley, Will the Rest of the World Eventually Embrace It, Too?“I do believe we are in the midst of a transition — intimated by the Internet — towards a more collective thinking, where the individual psyche becomes a component of a larger group mind. This doesn’t mean we stop existing as individuals, but it could mean we become more fully…Spirituality8 min readSpirituality8 min read
Oct 25, 2021Member-onlyImmersive Worlds: The Metaverse We Design vs. The Computational Multiverse We Inhabit“Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing Nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.” ―David Deutsch Is a conscious experience computable? Can the qualitative side of the equation be solved? Can we decipher the nature of…Metaverse7 min readMetaverse7 min read
Apr 28, 2021Member-onlyFrom Fringe to Mainstream: Experiential Realism of the Evolving Conscious Mind“Improving the quality of consciousness, advancing the quality and depth of awareness, understanding your nature and purpose, manifesting universal unconditional love, letting go of fear and eliminating ego, desires, wants, needs or preconceived notions — these are the attributes and results of a successfully evolving consciousness.” — Tom Campbell Our…Experiential Realism6 min readExperiential Realism6 min read
Mar 20, 2021Member-onlyFirst Look Over the Event Horizon of Singularity: Your Future Life as a Cyberhuman“I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the Universe.” — Buckminster Fuller The term ‘Infomorph’ was first introduced in “The Silicon Man” by Charles Platt in 1991 and later popularized by Alexander Chislenko in his…Cybernetics8 min readCybernetics8 min read
Feb 15, 2021Member-onlyWhy Materialism is a Flatlander Philosophy“The only reality is mind and observations but observations are not of things. To see the Universe as it really is, we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things. The Universe is immaterial, mental and spiritual. Live and enjoy!” — Richard Conn Henry While synthetizing science and metaphysics…Materialism6 min readMaterialism6 min read
Jan 20, 2021Member-onlyEvolutionary Cybernetics: Questioning Carbon Chauvinism“Carbon appears to be the chemical element best suited to act as the building block for the type of complex molecular systems that develop lifelike qualities… However, it is carbon chauvinism to assume that only carbon life is possible.” -Victor J. Stenger For most pantheists and idealists, the Mind is…Cybernetics5 min readCybernetics5 min read
