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  • Acknowledgements has some interesting names: Kripal, Lucy Suchman...

Kripal

11 Mar 2026 - 11 Mar 2026
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      • We are doomed...but together...this subject of all subjects... 600 people online!
      • The centrality of the topic to all of culture, the experiences forming the nucleus of culture and thus our humanity. The wellspring of religion, arts, technology. Used by individuals to "cocreate what we want to become"
        • I find this easy to believe, have heard it said about psychedelic drugs, but he has just shifted the attribution a bit.
        • Hm, somehow still feel a radical disagreement with this guy. No good reason, maybe I am just afraid to truly embrace reality, taking refuge in my dry rationalism, despite my claims and desire to escape it.
      • "We are making science fiction movies out of ourselves". Lots of people in this room, scientists, artists, lwayers, etc, etc (he didn't say trechnologists I note).
      • A higher higher education. Nice phrase, not sure what it means...
      • Reality is more than we mathematically model it to be, it is beyond our minds, thus impossible.
      • "The Superhumaniteis"
      • They want to bring it into centrality from the margins, eschew names like "pseudoscience" (I think there is an interesting argument to have here).
      • Want open conversations rather than shutting it down. But must be disciplined, must be intergenerational,
      • To Dream The Impossible Dream
      • transnationalism
      • transdisciplinarity
      • transcendence (of academic departments, but more than that)
      • Not about thinking outseide the box, its about breaking the box
        • Can't help thinking that his is lame, I was doing htis decades ago.
      • Martin Reesbok, Religion as legitmate science fiction. Paranormal as special effects for these movies (? not sure what that means).
      • It is about dislocation, the margins speaking
      • What the impossible becomes is up to us
      • We need to connect the pixels and make the image pop
      • The impossible intends to be plural
      • They Flew, A History of the Impossible, Eire
        • Should take a look at that
        • Somehow feel like this shit and technology are opposed. Just two schools competing for the same thing.
        • It seems low-class to me. Nonsense for rubes and women.
      • Weird things happen, they make no sense in our present knowledge, and that is the point. So change the framework of knowledge.
      • Artists are weird and that's a good thing.
      • Superhumanities, 2020 book,