Courtesy of listener Matt Gantner, here's a Scientific American article on "Why Information Can't Be the Basis of Reality." The author, John Horgan, criticizes information theorists like James Gleick who posit that information is somehow the basic structure of the universe (which seems to be a modern variation on Anaxagoras's idea that mind, or Nous, is the fundamental Continue Reading …
Consciousness and Unity (a Froot Loopian perspective)
Just so I'm not just harshing on the religious right, this seemed an opportune time to post a video I ran across during my search for consciousness/mind-related videos a few months back: One of the major interpretations of mystical experience is that in it, we shake off the individual ego and somehow are able to merge with a larger unity. Continue Reading …