This interview was posted here several times before and there's been discussions about how this part(world getting weirder and weirder) feels true these days. The idea is that novelty/complexity increases as time goes on. But is it happening in the positive direction. What do you think about this.
by Gyirin
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I think he was correct. but maybe there are other words that could help us appreciate what’s been going on recently. My friend said the other day modern society is becoming “accustomed to lunacy.” That’s my version of “novelty.”
Both, but if you live in the “first word” and pay attention to the news it’s going to **seem** mostly bad due to fascism rearing its ugly head again after an 80 year rest.
It’s also happening in the positive direction – hopefully to the extent that it’ll overpower the aforementioned – but by and large that wont be covered in the news.
I think you missed the point if you think it’s good or bad, it just is. Terrence on novelty is good subject though
Yeah I’m a pretty big Terrence McKenna fan and I used to think it was for the better now I’m starting to have doubts.
Since 1 A.D. (1 Jesus unit according to Bob Wilson’s framework) information has doubled at an interval until now information is doubling seemingly ‘instantaneously per instant.’ This creates fractals of information and these fractals propagate the chaos that science tries to get ahead of by making sense of it. We know that the doubling of information has no intention of slowing down in our lifetime so therefore chaos will not and the exercise of science will be the unifying tradition or religion for the moment.