Source: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 IM: We are now in a position where we can choose the level of suffering in the entire living world, why do it? DP: Around 850,000 or so people worldwide take their own lives each year. Tens of millions self-harm. Hundreds of millions are chronically depressed. These grim figures are just the tip of an iceberg of misery. Words and statistics can’t begin to convey the awfulness of suffering. Yet there is hope. For the first time in history, biotechnology turns the level of suffering in the living world into an adjustable parameter. The biosphere is programmable. Even a handful of genetic tweaks could massively reduce the level of suffering in the world. If used wisely, a combination of artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and synthetic gene drives could eradicate experience below “hedonic zero” altogether. Life on Earth deserves a more civilised signalling system – a motivational architecture based entirely on information-sensitive gradients of well-being. Today, a few fortunate genetic outliers enjoy hints of how such an architecture of mind will function. In future, life based on gradients of intelligent bliss can be the global norm. CRISPR makes paradise-engineering technically feasible.
On a more sober note, the easiest way to reduce to reduce suffering in the world doesn’t rely on gene editing, advanced technology or posthuman superintelligence. The biggest source of severe and readily avoidable suffering today is animal agriculture. Factory-farming is inherently abusive. Factory-farms and slaughterhouses are morally indefensible. Our victims are as sentient as small children, and they should be treated accordingly. The death-factories must be permanently closed and outlawed. Any civilisation worthy of the name will be invitrotarian or vegan.
IM: Isn’t suffering a necessary part of life? DP: Misery and malaise are so common that it’s easy to believe they are integral to life itself. Gautama Buddha’s “Life is suffering” sounds like a simplistic slogan to temperamentally optimistic life-lovers; but for billions of human and nonhuman animals, it’s true. For over 540 million years, suffering has been endemic to the animal kingdom. A predisposition to mental and physical pain has been genetically adaptive. Discontent promotes the inclusive fitness of our genes. Evolution via natural selection is underpinned by random mutations and the genetic casino of sexual reproduction. Natural selection is “blind” and amoral. But a revolution in genome-editing promises to transform the nature of selection pressure. Parents will shortly be able genetically to choose the pain thresholds, hedonic range and hedonic set-points of their future children. Prospective parents will pick genes and allelic combinations in anticipation of the likely effects of their choices. As the reproductive revolution unfolds, selection pressure in favour of “happy” genes will intensify at the expense of their nastier cousins. Barring revolutionary breakthroughs, growth in subjective wellbeing may only be linear rather than exponential; but genetic engineering plus the pleasure principle are a potent mix.
IM: If we do raise the hedonic range, do we lose other values/attributes worth keeping? DP: Engineering a world of indiscriminate bliss wouldn’t merely be risky. Uniform bliss would undermine human relationships, social responsibility, personal growth and intellectual progress. Most people aren’t classical utilitarians: getting “blissed out” would entail losing a lot of what we value as well as the miseries we hate. By contrast, ratcheting up hedonic range and hedonic set-points doesn’t entail adjudicating between different secular and religious values or sacrificing anything we hold dear. Hedonic recalibration doesn’t subvert existing preference architectures. An elevated hedonic set-point can also enhance the diversity of experience; compare how depressives tend to get “stuck in a rut”. Information-sensitive gradients of well-being can preserve what humans find valuable while enriching our default quality of life. Hedonic uplift will vanquish the feelings of emptiness, futility and nihilistic despair that stain so many lives today. Post-Darwinian life based on gradients of bliss will be saturated with meaning, purpose and significance.
For sure, there are tons of complications. The biohappiness revolution will be messy. We’d do well to preserve the functional analogues of depressive realism. But the basic point stands.
IM: How is genetic engineering different from eugenics? DP: Just as the Soviet experiment polluted the whole language of social justice, likewise the early twentieth-century eugenics movement polluted the whole language of genetic health. Consider the commitment to the well-being of all sentience enshrined in the Transhumanist Declaration (1998, 2009), or the World Health Organisation’s definition of health as set out in its founding constitution (1948): “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Lifelong health as so defined is impossible with a Darwinian genome. A living world where all sentient beings are innately healthy can be created only via genetic engineering. Societal reform on its own can’t manufacture the molecular substrates of happiness. Etymologically speaking, transhuman civilisation will be the product of eugenics. So in that sense, the critics are right. But genetically engineering the well-being of all sentience is far removed from the coercive “eugenics” and race hygiene policy of the Third Reich.
That said, a multitude of legal of legal and ethical safeguards will be essential to navigate the transition to post-Darwinian life – humans are untrustworthy creatures. Not least, we should uphold and extend the sanctity of life.
IM: How do we ensure genetic engineering is used safely? DP: All genetic experimentation is inherently risky, not least the gamble of having children. Antinatalists might support a hundred-year moratorium on untested genetic experiments; but such prudence is unrealistic. For evolutionary reasons, most people are determined to have children via sexual reproduction. So we should focus on minimising the risks of such genetic experimentation. Let’s try to balance risk-reward ratios. Preimplantation genetic screening will be hugely cost-effective. Later this century, all babies could and should be CRISPR babies. In the meantime, access to preimplantation genetic screening and counselling ought to be universal.
For example, consider the genetic dial-settings that regulate pain-sensitivity. What level of pain tolerance is optimal for our future children – and our older selves? Even now, medical science could eradicate pain altogether simply by knocking out the SCN9A gene – the so-called “volume knob” for pain. However, instant eradication of pain is too hazardous. SCN9A-knockouts would lack not just the ghastly experience of pain but also the vital function of nociception. Children with congenital analgesia need to lead a cotton-wool existence or else they come to serious harm. For now, choosing benign “low pain” alleles for our offspring is much safer. In tomorrow’s world of advanced AI and neuroprostheses, even the mildest “raw feels” of pain could be abolished. In the meantime, we can ensure that new children (and maybe our future selves) have the same exceptionally high pain-tolerance of today’s high-functioning genetic outliers: folk who say things like “Pain is just a useful signalling mechanism.”
IM: Should we still pursue genetic engineering if there was peace on earth? DP: Suicide rates typically go down in wartime. There isn’t peace on Earth for the same reason there isn’t peace among chimpanzee troops. Nature “designed” human male primates to (be genetically predisposed to) wage territorial wars of aggression against other coalitions of male primates. Let’s assume, optimistically, that we can prevent future armed conflict without any of the biological-genetic interventions discussed here. The negative-feedback mechanisms of the hedonic treadmill would ensure that countless people would continue to suffer – even in a peaceful world without war, poverty and disease. By its very nature, Darwinian life is sentient malware. Only a biohappiness revolution can fix our sinister source code for good.
IM: What other types of human enhancement technologies will considerably affect the nature of humans? DP: Safe and sustainable analogues of empathetic euphoriants like “hug drug” MDMA will revolutionise human relationships. Compare the quasi-psychopathic indifference to most other sentient beings that humans display now.
Robolovers, sexbots and designer aphrodisiacs will revolutionise sexual experience.
Novel psychedelics, novel genes and novel neurons will open up billions of state-spaces of consciousness as different from each other as waking life is different from dreaming life.
“Augmented” reality will be followed by full-blown multimodal immersive virtual reality.
“Narrow” superintelligence-on-a-neurochip will be accessible to all; with digital intelligence implants, sentient beings can do everything machine intelligence can do and more.
Opt-out cryonics, opt-in cryothanasia, and finally tools to defeat the biology of aging altogether will transform our conception of life and death. Transhumans will be quasi-immortal.
But in my view, mastery of the pleasure-pain axis will inaugurate the biggest revolution of all. The end of suffering promises an ethical watershed. Invincible well-being for all sentience will mark a momentous evolutionary transition in the development of life.
IM: What are some ethical considerations worth arguing about at this stage? DP: As a transhumanist, I look forward to a glorious “triple S” civilisation of Superhappiness, Superlongevity and Superintelligence. But more concretely, I’d like to see a coordinated hundred-year Plan to overcome suffering throughout the living world under the auspices of the World Health Organization. Here are four policy proposals for a Biohappiness Revolution:
- Accelerate the development and commercialisation of cultured meat. Close and outlaw factory-farms and slaughterhouses. Rehabilitate the surviving victims.
- Genetically raise pain-tolerance. Genetically recalibrate the hedonic treadmill. Create life based on gradients of intelligent bliss.
- Offer CRISPR gene-therapy and preimplantation genetic screening and counselling to all prospective parents.
- Spread low-pain “happy genes” across the biosphere with CRISPR-based synthetic gene drives that cheat the “laws” of Mendelian inheritance.
At times, Darwinian life can be desperately grim. Yet depressive, pain-ridden people shouldn’t feel their lives are worthless. Even malaise-ridden lives can be valuable if one prevents more suffering than one undergoes. We should all aspire to be not just transhumanists but also effective altruists. Let’s use biotechnology to phase out suffering. Humans are stepping-stones to something better – something inconceivably sublime.
IM: In 2015, Bill Gates gave a chilling warning on a TED Talk that the world was in danger due to global pandemics or bioterrorism. These predictions have raised conspiracy theories that Bill is responsible for creating the novel coronavirus and the reason for his interest in developing a vaccine treatment. There are also conspiracy theories circulating about 5G technology being connected to the spread of the novel coronavirus which has led to the recent burning of 5G towers in the UK. Conversations about the use of microchips and biometrics in order to prevent future epidemics are also fueling conspiracy paranoia. Are these fears reasonable? Do they serve an evolutionary purpose or detriment? DP: “Only the paranoid survive”, said Intel boss Andy Grove. There’s a lot that medical science still doesn’t understand about the pandemic viral respiratory illness COVID-19. However, the new corona virus was not created by Bill Gates, nor is it spread by 5G towers. Nor is it a bioweapon. The truth is more sinister. COVID-19 is a by-product of humanity’s monstrous treatment of nonhuman animals. Zoonotic disease and consequent global pandemics are inevitable as long as humans practise meat-eating. Animal abuse is catastrophic for humans and our victims. Details of the spillover infection in a dirty Wuhan meat market in November 2019 are still murky; but this viral pandemic would not have happened if humans didn’t practise animal agriculture – and then butcher sentient beings to gratify a gruesome taste for their flesh. Rather than being the villain of the piece, Bill Gates is a sponsor of “clean” cultured meat. The cultured meat revolution promises to end zoonotic pandemics, save billions of nonhuman and human animal lives, and yield cost-savings of tens of trillions of dollars by preventing future pandemics. Yet human health and safety needn’t wait for the commercialisation of cruelty-free cultured meat and animal products. Wet markets, vivisection labs, factory-farms and slaughterhouses are crimes against sentience; they should be outlawed. Future civilisation will be vegan.
IM: Humanity’s self-sabotaging nature exists in many forms. One, in particular, a form of self-assertion by denying, ignoring, or attacking what others consider to be true - the fear of others - is as subtle and universal as it is destructive. This form of self-defense mechanism so prevalent in modern society prevents people from establishing effective communication channels that are all-encompassing, flexible, and effective, in particular towards problem-solving. Could humans ever turn mindfulness, gratitude, hope, and a sense of solidarity into sustainable practices? DP: Evolution didn’t “design” humans to be nice to each other – except insofar as friendliness promoted the inclusive fitness of their genes. Some transhumanists worry about the spectre of unfriendly artificial general intelligence; but our biggest challenge is creating sentience-friendly biological intelligence. Maybe the shock of COVID-19 will help persuade killer apes to close the death factories and accelerate an anti-speciesist revolution. Maybe the shock of COVID-19 will help persuade free-market fundamentalists that all people have a fundamental right to basic income, homes and healthcare. I’d love to believe that humans will “turn mindfulness, gratitude, hope and a sense of solidarity into sustainable practices”, as you suggest. But unless we combine dietary, political and socio-economic reform with remediation of our sinister source code, the well-being of all sentience remains a utopian dream. Depravity is hardwired into our DNA – a lot of it, at any rate. The worst of “human nature” must be genetically cured.
IM:To establish a global pandemic immunity for the novel coronavirus, our priorities are: 1. to keep people safe from getting the coronavirus through social distancing, 2. to figure out a way to contact-trace and test millions of people a day to know who can resume working, 3. to come up with treatments and vaccinations that can prevent coronavirus flare-ups, in particular third world countries, 4. to continue travel restrictions and global collaboration, 5. to improve our supply chain and infrastructure. Do you think this plan is aligned with the transhumanist goal of improving the human condition? DP: Becoming transhuman will entail overcoming deeply-rooted ethnocentric and anthropocentric bias. COVID-19 has already triggered an upsurge in racism and xenophobia. Coronaviruses and future pathogens could be readily tamed with the aid of ubiquitous testing and tracking apps. But many people are (rightly) afraid that tracking measures introduced to tackle catastrophes like COVID-19 – biometric scanning, phone location data, credit-card information, security footage and so forth – will be used by authoritarian regimes to control rather than protect us.
IM: The success of a global plan to turn the economy around towards the sustainable implementation of a universal health care system that can successfully handle crisis depends not only on improving our own neural architecture but on re-defining our value system. Professor Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, also a distinguished philosopher of posthuman studies from Cabo University, Italy, whom I'm also interviewing in this issue of Immoralists Magazine (See: “The Future Of Digital Surveillance and Healthcare - A Conversation with World Leading Philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner” APR-MAY 2020), makes a bold argument stating that when it comes to health and privacy, the problem isn’t about giving up privacy, but our understanding of what privacy means to us. He argues that people aren’t afraid of giving up privacy, but being sanctioned by the government. We soon realize that the fear isn’t the loss of privacy but the inability to live as one pleases. Stefan believes that the collection of digital data by means of total surveillance is needed and can be established through mutually beneficial contracts where citizens give access to their biometrics to governments in exchange for a free health care system that keeps everyone safe and healthy. He adds, "in order to collect all the relevant data, the data needs to be sold in between the companies or the companies and the government." Do you think that a decentralized, non-commercial, peer-to-peer system would be more effective, or could we instead establish a hybrid system that restricts government and companies access to people's biometrics? DP: Let’s step back for a moment. Why exactly does privacy matter? The Borg has no concept of privacy. Many Christians believe that a benevolent and omniscient God is privy to their innermost thoughts and feelings. But we needn’t invoke science-fiction or theology. If mutually “loved up” on oxytocin-releasing euphoriant empathogens like MDMA (Ecstasy), people can forget about privacy and be honest with each other: oxytocin has been dubbed the “trust hormone”. More radically, the conjoined craniopagus twins Krista and Tatiana Hogan share a thalamic bridge. In a sense, they are distinct persons. But Krista and Tatiana can partially see though each other’s eyes and taste and feel what the other is experiencing. So in another sense, the twins can share a mind as well as a body. Maybe our transhuman successors will be able to “mind meld” via reversible thalamic bridges. If so, mind-melding technologies will inaugurate a revolution of true honesty – and (lack of) personal privacy – as understood by archaic Darwinian lifeforms. Science, morality and decision-theoretic rationality will be revolutionised too. By contrast, “normal” humans today are profoundly ignorant of each other. Moreover, most prefer to stay ignorant – and prefer others stay ignorant of them. For sure, humans want to feel loved, appreciated and respected. But we also want to prevent others from truly understanding us – as distinct from acknowledging our idealised public personae. Some of the reasons why contemporary humans want to preserve their privacy may be irrational – for example, embarrassment over bodies and their functions or a taste in porn. But the problem goes deeper. Social, personal and business life depends on a web of deceptions. If our dark, Darwinian minds practised “radical honesty”, then human society and personal relationships would collapse. Today, we have the justified suspicion that if other humans learned our secrets, they might exploit such knowledge to harm us.
Anyhow, to answer your question more directly: if adequate safeguards can be established, then everyone’s mental and physical health would be best served by allowing medical authorities to have full genetic and biometric data for all citizens, ideally from birth if not conception. Later this century, universal access to preimplantation genetic screening and counselling and CRISPR genome-editing should be available for all prospective parents. Centralised genetic knowledge-banks available to medical researchers would promote public health and benefit individuals and society alike.
However, the risks to personal freedom from sharing such knowledge are far-reaching. I will need to study Stefan Sorgner’s proposals properly before offering comment. But in my view, universal access to free healthcare, basic income and adequate housing shouldn’t depend on surrendering genetic privacy and other biometric details. Universal and unconditional access to healthcare, basic income and adequate housing is a precondition of any civilised society. One possible solution to the privacy dilemma may involve artificial intelligence. If implemented wisely, the practice of sharing intimate personal and biometric details with smart digital zombies won’t involve embarrassment or scope for human-style abuse. We’re already heading for a world of robo-carers, robo-nurses, robo-doctors and robo-surgeons: insentient robo-epidemiologists aren’t so different – not a Nanny State, but “Nanny AI”. But I believe this kind of AI option would need rolling out over decades. The devil is in the details.
IM: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are planning to partner up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to begin exploring possible COVID-19 treatments. It is known that the Zuckerberg-Chan Initiative is also on a mission to “eliminate all diseases within our children’s lifetime”. How are super longevity initiatives relevant to our quest to establish a universal health care system and happiness? DP: Humanity needs a more ambitious conception of health – the kind of conception laid out in the founding constitution of the World Health Organization. I hope that we can indeed “eliminate all diseases within our children’s lifetime”. Yet even if all recognised genetic disorders and infections were eradicated, horrific suffering would persist in the world – all sorts of physical and mental pain. Under a regime of natural selection, a predisposition to suffering and discontent is genetically adaptive. So we wouldn’t really be healthy, just not sick. Our genomes need fixing. Hence the need for a biohappiness revolution – a civilised information-signalling system underpinned by gradients of intelligent bliss. Superlongevity? Only revolutionary medical breakthroughs can abolish death and aging. We don’t yet have the knowledge. Organs and bodies can be replaced, repaired and/or enhanced indefinitely with recognisable extensions of existing technologies; but the central nervous system is more challenging to re-engineer: I’m more pessimistic than some of my transhumanist colleagues about credible time-scales for eternally youthful mind-brains. Therefore we need a twin-track approach: SENS and Calico should work together with Alcor. Universal access to cryonics and cryothanasia could potentially make a transhumanist civilization available to all sentient beings – even the elderly and infirm for whom talk of posthuman paradise is apt to sound personally irrelevant. Hormonally, I’m one of Nature’s pessimists; but I think we are destined for a glorious “triple S” civilisation of superlongevity, superintelligence and superhappiness.
IM: How does transhumanism address issues of racism and injustice? DP: The Transhumanist Declaration (1998, 2009) affirms our commitment to the well-being of all sentience.
This goal sounds impossibly utopian. Consider just one form of injustice, economic inequality. Traditional routes to a fairer world involve “winners” and “losers”. Zero-sum games are endemic to human society. Worse, the enforcement mechanisms of greater fairness often turn out to be as bad - or worse - than the injustices they attempt to remedy. Consider the fate of socialist experiments of twentieth-century history.
Transhuman society will be different. Information-based technology promises to erase traditional left-right distinctions by creating effectively unlimited abundance of anything that can be digitised – and that embraces almost everything. (Some transhumanists claim that everything can be digitised, but let’s postpone discussion of whether conscious minds are a classical phenomenon.) Digital information is egalitarian. Intellectual-property owners may blanch, but we can now take for granted that everyone can enjoy access to the world’s musical resources, electronic games, movies and computer software. This unfolding revolution will continue into an era of augmented reality and immersive VR. Most importantly, access to genetic information and mastery of our reward circuitry will soon be democratised. Code for the biological substrates of subjective well-being doesn’t need to be rationed any more than the source code of digital music needs to be rationed. We could all become hedonic trillionaires. Many of the world’s worst inequalities aren’t economic or socio-political, but biological-genetic: disparities of mood, motivation and hedonic range. Just consider who is better off: a rich, angst-ridden depressive or a poor, healthy hyperthymic? Transhumanism promises a civilisation based entirely on gradients of intelligent bliss. Potentially, everyone can be a hedonic “winner”.
Yet what about tackling injustice now?
In my view, universal basic income (UBI), decent housing and free healthcare shouldn’t be a political left-right issue, but a precondition of civilised society. Thus broadly libertarian transhumanists such as Zoltan Istvan support UBI no less than transhumanists in the left-liberal tradition. My own gut instincts have always favoured the underdog. But the neocortex is a more effective tool of cognition than the enteric nervous system. Rich and poor, black and white, human and nonhuman animals – we are all victims of our legacy wetware. Everyone will benefit when our Darwinian source code is fixed. Any prospective parent who believes that creating new life is ethically permissible should consider preimplantation genetic screening, counselling and (soon-to-be) professional gene-editing.
Defeating racism? This really demands a treatise, but here goes. From antiquity to the present, dominant groups have convinced themselves they are intellectually, morally and spiritually superior to stigmatised outsiders – and touted “objective” measures to prove it. The evolutionary roots of racial discrimination, bigotry and xenophobia run deep. Everything from cultural stereotypes to the institutional racism in our criminal justice systems and even transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (i.e. transmission of epigenetic information through the germline) mean that the effects of systemic racism will take generations to overcome. Our posthuman successors may find the differences between human ethnic groups akin to the differences that humans discern between different dogs or mice or beetles. Yes, there are differences between different breeds of dog and mouse – and beetle! But humans can recognise that these differences are trivial compared to what all dogs, mice and beetles have in common. Likewise posthuman superintelligence vis-à-vis archaic humans. Education harnessed to intelligence-amplification can help overcome racist prejudice and other cognitive deficits of perspective-taking ability. But creating empathetic superintelligence will be a monumental challenge.
IM: How can transhumanism positively affect policies that affect all sentient life? DP: A “triple S” civilisation of superintelligence, superlongevity and superhappiness can benefit all sentient beings.
Everyone could benefit from “narrow” superintelligence on a neurochip; Neuralink is just a foretaste of tomorrow’s implantable brain-machine interfaces. Some doomsters fear a zombie coup from runaway software-based AGI; but all the benefits of “narrow” AGI can be incorporated within one’s own CNS. So transhumans will be supersapient and supersentient. Full-spectrum superintelligence will be us, not some fanciful zombie overlord. Transhumanism also offers a richer conception of intelligence than the narrow, “autistic” component of general intelligence measured by simple-minded IQ tests: enhanced social cognition, superior co-operative problem-solving skills, an expanding circle of compassion, and the tools to explore alien state-spaces of consciousness.
Yet who will live long enough to enjoy triple-S civilisation? Unless you’re a hydra, you and your loved ones suffer from the lethal hereditary disease we call “aging”. Rejuvenating interventions such as regular therapeutic blood exchange can potentially turn back the biological clock. “Cyborgisation” and synthetic body parts will increasingly enhance, repair and replace biological organs. But full-blown body-replacement is still decades away. Therefore we need not just medico-genetic advances, but also a medico-legal revolution: opt-out cryonics and opt-in cryothanasia for life-loving oldsters. At its best, transhumanism is all-inclusive.
Critically, the biohappiness revolution won’t be race- or species-specific. Transhumanists aspire to transcend ethnocentric and anthropocentric bias. Everyone can potentially benefit from genetically programmed well-being – a civilised signalling system to replace the dismal dial-settings of a Darwinian hedonic treadmill. There is a crying need for the World Health Organization to live up to its obligations as set out in its founding constitution. Good health should be the birthright of all sentient beings – or else they shouldn’t have been conceived in the first place. I’m personally gloomy about timescales for the abolitionist project. Centuries? Millennia? I don’t know. However, a hundred-year blueprint to eradicate suffering is technically feasible. The world’s last experience below hedonic zero will mark a major evolutionary transition in the development of life on Earth.
My own focus is the plight of nonhuman animals – humble minds as sentient and sapient as small children and worthy of equivalent care. Currently, the abuse of nonhumans by humans is systematic. Factory-farming and slaughterhouses are nastier than even the most virulent racism and child abuse. Ideally, moral argument alone would suffice: I’d implore everyone to adopt a cruelty-free vegan lifestyle. But transhumanists are hard-headed. We tend to favour technical solutions to ethical problems. Cultured meat and cultured animal products once belonged to science fiction. Yet over the next few decades, the cultured meat revolution will end the horrors of animal agriculture. The death factories will close. The surviving victims will be rehabilitated. Zoonotic plagues like COVID-19 spawned by animal abuse like will pass into history. And looking further ahead, what Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus called “the great slaughterhouse of Nature” can be civilised too. The biohappiness revolution can be extended to the rest of the living world via genome editing, cross-species fertility-regulation and synthetic gene drives. The entire tree of life is programmable. For sure, pilot studies in self-contained mini-biospheres will be prudent. But post-Darwinian ecosystems won’t resemble today’s snuff movie. Post-Darwinian ecosystems will be engines of bliss.
IM: What approach would you recommend for someone that intends to recalibrate their hedonic set-point and live "better than well" in a sustainable way in the current technological paradigm, before the democratization of gene-editing arrives, assuming that all the typical healthy habits (sleep, nutrition, exercise, meaningful social interactions) have been already maxed out? DP: Most people today have not “maxed out” their genetic potential. Optimising sleep, nutrition and exercise is more often preached than practised. Yet what about depressive people who done everything right and still aren’t happy? Maybe they have also tried nutritional supplements (omega-3 fatty acids, S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine (SAMe), St John’s wort, etc) and worked their way through the officially sanctioned mood-brighteners – “antidepressants” such as the SRRIs, MAOIs, tricyclics, bupropion and so forth. Meditation, cognitive-behavioural therapy and other non-biological interventions hasn’t produced lasting relief. Nothing works. The set-point of their hedonic treadmill is too simply low.
It’s tragic. I’ve no easy answers to the hardest cases. One of the biggest challenges to pharmacological (as distinct from genetic) remediation and enhancement is that the neurotransmitter system most directly involved in hedonic tone is the opioid system. We are all born dysfunctional opioid addicts with cravings to fix. Alas, exogenous opioids have well-known pitfalls for users, their families and society at large. That said, there is still scope for creative psychopharmacology. For example, the “French” antidepressant tianeptine - a full mu and delta opioid receptor agonist – can be combined with a selective kappa opioid receptor antagonist. (Kappa agonists induce dysphoria.) Also, perhaps add the novel agent LIH383. LIH383 blocks the atypical “scavenger” opioid receptor ACKR3. Blockade of ACKR3 increases the availability of opioid peptides that can bind to classical CNS opioid receptors, thereby increasing their “natural” mood-brightening action. The negative-feedback mechanisms of the hedonic treadmill can be sabotaged. However, this kind of cocktail of creative psychopharmacology is best explored with the aid of a medical specialist. If all else fails, the modern equivalent of “wireheading” would work. Intracranial self-stimulation is not the transhumanist vision of paradise engineering: superintelligent life based on information-sensitive gradients of bliss. Wireheading is clearly a last resort. But no one should be forced to suffer: it’s unethical.Fortunately, future sentience will be blissful.
submitted by Oda stated in a SBS that about 50 years ago an expedition of people departed from Wano illegally and settled in east blue, one of them was the ancestor of a character we all know very well, later Hitetsu revealed to us that one of them was a famous swordsmith by the name Shimotsuki Kozaburo, and we all assumed that he's Koushiro's father and that Koushiro is the character that Oda was talking about, while I will agree that Koushiro is indeed Kozaburo's son or grandson because of the similiar name structure but should a person that we only have seen a few panels of be really considered "a character that we all know very well?" that's a question I would keep in mind for the meanwhile.
Another thing to notice is that Oden is actually not the first one to have the ambition to leave Wano, there was a whole group of people with such ambition, besides Kozaburo and potentially other Shimotsuki clan members we have the carptner Minatomo whose father was on that ship and we have the old man in Zoro's home town that taught him the "sunachi" word which ties him to the bandits of Kuri, so the next question that came to my mind is could it be that they all were inspired to travel beyond Wano by the same person?
Looking back 50+ years ago Oden only seems to hang out in 2 places, Yakuza's casino and quarries:
Starting at age 6 (53 years ago), he started roaming the Red-Light District and participating in casinos, and by the time he was 8 (51 years ago), he started drinking booze and began picking fights with gamblers. At age 9 (50 years ago), even the yakuza had banned him from their casino. This resulted in Oden setting their casino on fire and starting a conflict with them, culminating in his capture a year later after he almost killed someone. As punishment, Oden was sentenced to hard labor in the quarries, and he worked well enough there to gain significant prestige.
Let's try to figure out where Oden and all of the previously mentioned people could have met the person that inspired them to leave Wano, firstly if we think about the blacksmith Kozaburo we can't tie him with the casino because a member of a royal family couldn't be inspired by some yakuza thugs for obvious reasons, on the other hand the quarries seems to be a good fit for him since a blacksmith should be a regular customer of an ore mining business, next the carptner Minatomo who theoretically could be involved with yakuza but building mining shafts is something more likely for him to want to do, and lastly a bandit from Kuri who by definition should be banned from entering casinos but by the same definiton can't be restricted from stealing resources from a succesfull mining business, we can't surely affirm the quarries to be the common ground for these people based on their backgrounds but we surely can exclude the casino therefore we are anyways left with the only other place Oden could have been 50 years ago - the quarries.
Now if we talk about quarries then we should consider only 2 regions in Wano: Udon and Kibi. I would rather go with Kibi region since if you look at how it is portrayed on Wano's map you would be able to see an old mining shaft in it.
Recently we discovered that 6 families used to be the rulers of the 6 regions of Wano: 1. 光月 kozuki = bright moon. 2. 霜月 shimotsuki = frost moon. 3. 天月 amatsuki = sky/heavenly moon. 4. 雨月 uzuki = rain moon. 5. 風月 fugetsu = wind moon. And the Kurozumi family that doesn't have any moon reference in its name.
Orochi who is a Kurozumi descendent was found by Yasuie in Hakumai region so it is not a stretch to say that his family were previously the rulers of that same region. Kozuki were the rulers of the flower capital for 3 atleast generations. Shimotsuki family seems to be originated from Ringo region, a cold region, and coincidentally (or not) Shimotsuki means
frost moon. Let's say every family name correspondes to the climate of the region they used to be the rulers of: 1. Uzuki/rain moon = Kuri, a region with a lot of green which is typical for rainy terrain. 2. Fugetsu/wind moon = Udon, which is a desert and probably suffers from strong winds. 3. Amatsuki/sky moon = Kibi region which is full of high mountains that reach the sky.
So it seems very likely that Amatsuki family ruled Kibi region by the time Oden was working in its quarries and they surely were involved in the excavations by some way if not directly leading them so there was atleast one Amatsuki that was in good terms with Kozubaru who probably used his metal ores for crafting. Coincidentally the only person from Wano other than Oden's retainers and Kozubaro who was found outside of Wano is also an Amatsuki - Amatsuki Toki, so just like Toki 800 years ago it could be that there was another Amatsuki 50 years ago that sought to go outside Wano's borders for some reason, maybe even just to find that young Amatsuki lady who was lost in time according to their family's old tale that they pass through the generations or maybe she appears from time to time in Wano but runs away every single time because her family wants her to marry another guy she doesn't likes (it seems that she jumped into the future many times from her words "I have to leap into the future again" when she was cornered), though it's unlikely to be the Daimyo who tried to find the mystorious clan member 50 years ago because he had to stay to rule over Kibi, but it could be one of his brothers/sisters and maybe he/she's not the first one from their family to search for Toki outside Wano maybe in every generation there is a venturous Amatsuki who goes after her and every time brings home another story of a jounary from the outside world which makes the whole Amatsuki family more open to it and that is how they influenced people like Oden and Kozaburo to want to go beyond Wano's borders.
So personally I believe that atleast 2 royal families were involved in that illegal expedition from Wano 50 years ago and an Amatsuki clan member who hanged with Oden in the mines was the one to initiate it. Why he/she didn't took Oden with them you may wonder? knowing his choatic nature he/she said to him that he can't go with them unless he proves that he can build and improve things not just cause damage (assuming they plan to build villages in other countries and considering Oden's wrongdoings prior to getting to the quarries) so by the time they return to Wano if he becomes a great contributor to the country instead of a disaster he/she promised to Oden to let him join his ship, that's why Oden progressed well in the quarries and begun to gain good reputation but unfortunetely when he tried to save the capital city from a prolonged drought by diverting a river straight into the capital he mistakenly flooded the city and ruined all of his reputation again so he gave up on it and decided that he can go to the sea alone.
Now going back to the first question if we assume that Koushiro is not the character that Oda was talking about and there is another person that we know very well whose ancestor is someone from that expedition from Wano that settled in east blue then who could it be? Many people don't like the idea of Zoro being a Shimotsuki and a I can really see why since it makes Ryuma's defeat and the pass on of Shusui not that powerfull moment as it is for a Zoro that is not blood related to a God sword and that achieves great feats in swordmanship with pure ambition and will power, but if Zoro will turn out to be an Amatsuki that wouldn't take away from Zoro's current image at all because Amatsuki people shouldn't stand out in swordsmanship from other Samurais in Wano, on the other hand it will open good oppurtunities to make Wano more relavant for Zoro's charactrer like WCI was for Sanji. One thing that can actually hint to Zoro being related to the Amatsuki is Hiyouri's hair color, if Oden's is black than she must have got the green from Toki.
And one last short matter I want to cover is whether this Amatsuki is Zoro's mother or father, personally I think it's his mother because: 1. From what I've read in one piece wiki, though I'm not sure how true it is, the etymology of Roronoa is the japanese pronunciation of the family name of a real life france pirate, so Zoro having this family name can be explained by a romance between the Amatsuki lady and a pirate. 2. I see no reason for Zoro to want to hide his true family name like Ace did, or it could be that his father did something shameful to make Zoro want to not be associated with him. 3. The irony of Zoro growing to a swordwoman and then meeting Kuina who struggles with prejudice of that kind, and then Tashigi, and that scene of Usopp shouting "swordwoman with a meet" to wake up Zoro, Sanji and Luffy, he difinitely has something to swordwomen. 4. If his father is a pirate and he left his mother in poverty to sail the seas that may be the reason Zoro became a pirate hunter initialy, and personally if his father will show up in Wano I prefer it to be a pirate in Kaido's crew that Zoro will have to fight rather than an ally since the alliance is already full of important characters. The only problem I have with the female option is that it is strange that Oden didn't mentioned anything about knowing another Amatsuki lady when he met Toki, but maybe he plans to touch this matter in the following chapters of the flashback.
TDLR; Oden and Koushiro's ancestor were inspired to leave Wano 50 years ago by a venturous Amatsuki clan member who used to travel outside Wano alot in search for Toki, this Amatsuki is Zoro's mother. His father is a pirate and he may show up in Wano as an ally of Kaido.
. Ok folks. Lets go over some wild syncs. As some of you know I have been looking into 666 the number of beast and man.
https://imgur.com/F3zCiRw First I discovered the 3 distance calculations Then looked into the peculiarities of the conversion rate between meters and Nautical miles.
Then I leaned about Earths Axis. How the tilt creates seasons and Wobbles between between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees. So the angle of the axis is in relation to the Sun. 23.4 degrees currently 234+432= 666 but also in the form of redundancy is 90 degrees-23.4degrees is 66.6degrees
Then I learned how the angle of the line created when you connect the Kaaba of mecca to the temple mount is the same angle of the earths axial tilt 23.4 degrees with a 66.6 degree to the equator.
Then I learned that Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
13X18 =432....... added too its mirror 234=666 As shown in the Axial 23.4 to 666 measure.
After this I thought “What is the 666th verse of the bible.
Gen 25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. In seeing this and seeing not only a number but the same syntax as before, the 100s 10s and 1s places independently. 25X7= 175 which is the number of years of Abraham's life, told too us within the 666th verse.
Then while flying around on google earth I found the circular measurement tool. I learned that if you take the circle to the other side of the globe you can find the opposite side of the earth, which I then shortly learned was called an “Antipode”.
https://www.reddit.com/C_S_T/comments/8o40mt/abrahamkabbaantipodes_and_666/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=user&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=frontpage In searching for land on the opposite sides of the earth from particular points EVERY point I put in prior too Mecca was in the ocean. Mecca's antipode was also in the ocean but only 30 miles from land. I found signs of in habitation on the island in the form of grids of trees, Sure enough in the 1966, Catholic missionary Father Victor Valleys mentioned in a letter to his bishop that he had planted 135,000 coconut trees on the islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tematagi I then found that 175 nuclear bombs were tested in this area. I thought that was interesting in regard to the 666th verse gen 25x7= 175 and 175 is the number in the text. Metaphorically this becomes even more interesting when you realize if heaven is residing above mecca then, the antipode of mecca's sky would be the gates of hell. Bombing the gates of hell with 1 nuke for every year of Abraham life sounds a lot like a 21 gun salute.
So to find next that Abraham and Isaac BUILT the kaaba.
http://www.light\-of\-truth.com/666/KJV.html The 666th chapter from the end of the bible is Psalm 46..... Seeing this got me giddy as this is one of my favorite biblical quirks. It looks as if they were extra redundant about it as its the KJV of the bible has it on the 666th page. But this isn't the most incredible part.
The king James version of the bible released in 1611 “Around” William Shakespeare's 46th birthday. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE is an anagram for “HERE WAS I LIKE A PSALM”. But that isn't all.
If you look for the 46th word from the beginning you get Shake in the KJV (Totter, and tremble) are other versions words. Then you take the 46th word from the end you get Spear. This is getting stranger and stranger is it not? The more you meditate on this data the more confusing it becomes.
http://biblehub.com/hebrew/7493.htm http://biblehub.com/hebrew/2595.htm These are the 2 words in question from the Psalm. So you can be certain that the original text was arranged this way and translated this way. The riddle is deep as you have to ask which came first? WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR-THE ORGINAL BIBLE- THE KJV. The presence of the anagram by itself is a fun coincidence but the words shake and spear ALSO to be encoded an EXACT and Particular Psalm, one that echoes the years of Shakespeare at that time.
http://www.light-of-truth.com/Freemasonry/Bacon911.htm Seeing this author post this on 6-6-06 linking Shakespeare to 9-11 is stark and powerful to me. As I write this it is 11:58pm 6-5-18. I wonder if I can finish before tomorrow lol.
Seeing that Obama read Psalm 46 on the 10th anniversary of 9-11 is quite chilling in the regards of the 666 position and Shakespeares/Bacons “Clue” Also chilling that there is a large body of work linking OBAMA to 666
http://www.pacificrimbible.com/books/Obama%20and%20the%20Number%206.pdf While many will say you can torture the numbers to get what you want but you can see we aren't talking just numbers, there are many contextual and historical clues, and there is certainly a “CREATIVE” force involved. Like its just a damn good movie that we are all in.
Which leads me into the SYNCHRONICTY portion of the post.
I have been traveling down the path of the Man in Black. LOST, West-world, and The Dark Tower series in particular. I am also reading the comic book series Promethea, which I highly recommend if you are interested in the occult philosophies and kabbalah rich world of the land of imagination.
I had a peculiar Tarot card sync via 3 separate mediums.1st I got an RPG called Pillars Of Eternity 2 and I made my character and I end up sitting in front of a table with tarot cards after doing so.
2nd I got to the part in promethea where she is traveling the paths of the tree of life. In the Kabbalah the lines between the Spheres or Sephiroth are attributed to a tarot card. I finished up reading that night with the Tower card.
3rd Was the final confrontation with the Man in black where he meets with the Man and he gives Roland a tarot reading also drawing the Tower.
These 3 tarot PINGS were in the span of 15 or 16 hours.
Season 2 episode 7 came on sunday and I awoke to a message from my sync friend detailing their wild sync chain brought on by “William Blakes Augeries of Innocence” being spoken by Anthony Hopkins character. I wont detail her sync chain but its funny because when I watched the show the quote didn't really stand out as much.but my friend bringing attention to it hit me like a ton of bricks.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43650/auguries-of-innocence Theres the poem for those interested I wont break it down but there are some startling pings in the text.
“The number of the beast is 666” is the name of a William Blake painting as a part of a series. And when I saw the link I flipped, In the movie Red Dragon Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lectere and he is helping to hunt down the tooth fairy. There is a scene in that movie that always stood out as damn peculiar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJZlg3jRQOw So nice they made it TWICE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyWGjGdg7s4 Note the man opposite the red dragon is William Graham (which is common enough of a name but still.)
Hopkins and the man in black (Ed Harris) WW are also 2 men opposite from each other where one creates a puzzle and the other has to figure it out. The maze is the goal. Which means to me that the maze and the process of findings one way is the treasure there isn't ONE thing at the end.
The dark tower novel has Roland Deschain playing opposite of The man in Black, the main in black also setting the stage for rolands “awakening to the multitudes of realities” Leaving obstacles and challenges to sharpen the man like stone to blade.
http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/the_dark_tower_the_gunslinger_size.shtml This is the ending I witnessed. Not really the end, but a explanation of the world.
>"Imagine the sand of the Mohaine Desert, which you crossed to find me, and imagine a trillion universes - not worlds by universes - encapsulated in each grain of that desert; and within each universe an infinity of others. We tower over these universes from our pitiful grass vantage point; with one swing of your boot you may knock a billion billion worlds flying off into darkness, a chain never to be completed.”
To See a world in a grain of sand. Looking at a single point there is yet infinitude's of complexity and creativity abound.
This is when my Sync friend said CETEACEAN STRANDING. I immediately thought of DEATHS STRANDING and also the song “do the strand” was playing when James Delos danced his little dance in west-world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2nuHEGhwiw At 2:09 is the beached whales that pinged my memory. When I pulled up the video I almost knocked my seat over as the trailer opens with “Augeries of innocence” by WILLIAM BLAKE!!!!! the same quote that was stated by Anthony Hopkins in Westworld as well as a version quoted by the Man in Black.
Whales are divided into two main categories toothed whales and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen_whale MYSTICETI or MYSTIC ETI (extra terrestrial intelligence.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism >Mystic: a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.
>"Mysticism" is derived from the [Greek] μυω, meaning "I conceal", and its derivative μυστικός, [
mystikos]
, meaning 'an initiate'. The verb μυώ has received a quite different meaning in the Greek language, where it is still in use. The primary meanings it has are "induct" and "initiate". Secondary meanings include "introduce", "make someone aware of something", "train", "familiarize", "give first experience of something"
It certainly feel like I am undergoing some form of initiation, with the universe,history and human creations to light various clues. The ETI present in the whales is funny for a multitude of reasons.
ETI. Stands for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. This is funny for a couple reasons. One is that they WERE terrestrial creatures,or rather they evolved from Land mammals and adapted the blowhole functionality. Extra Terrestrial is right lol, and intelligent, yeah they are that too.
http://www.bigear.org/CSMO/HTML/CS06/cs06p02.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly John C. Lilly is a fascinating character and Cetacean scholar. But more than that hes know for his studies into consciousness and coincidence.
>Lilly was interested in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (
SETI) project. In 1961 a group of scientists including Lilly gathered at the
Green Bank Observatory to discuss the possibility of using the techniques of radio astronomy to detect evidence of intelligent life outside the solar system. They called themselves
The Order of the Dolphin after Lilly's work with dolphins. They discussed the
Drake equation, used to estimate the number of communicative civilizations in our galaxy.
[ >In 1974, Lilly's research using various
psychoactive drugs led him to believe in the existence of a certain hierarchical group of
cosmic entities, the lowest of which he later dubbed Earth Coincidence Control Office (E.C.C.O.) in an autobiography published jointly with his wife Antonietta (often called Toni). To elaborate, "There exists a Cosmic Coincidence Control Center (CCCC) with a Galactic substation called Galactic Coincidence Control (GCC). Within GCC is the Solar System Control Unit (SSCU), within which is the Earth Coincidence Control Office (ECCO).
The search for ETI's lead by “The Brotherhood of the Dolphin” coincidence control center which brings us back to bikini bottom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGdy8z7dCe4 Bubbles the one who Watches. The dolphin in charge of making sure the universe is kept straight.
I had already had a stunning synchronicity regarding death stranding which probably kept in my easily accessed memories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Hy96sOnq8 This trailer opens with Norman Reedus on the ground with a uniform on. The number on the uniform is 0914-137. the 0914 stood out synchromystically on a personal level for me as it was the first number sequence I had ever memorized (other than my grandmothers phone number) This number was the birthdate of my stepmothers father and her father passed away shortly after the wedding and they had gotten a security system for the house and coded the entry code too be 0914.
137 is another significant number as it relates to the Fine structure Constant. And the TENGRI 137 rabbit hole. 137 is also the “Main” or original universe in Rick and Morty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Hy96sOnq8 at 3:33 you meet the bad guy of deaths stranding Mads Mikelson. WHO is also HANNIBAL LECTERE.
Today I started 'The drawing of the Three” the second book in the dark tower series. It opens up with our hero on a beach with the waves lapping up at him. He ends up being chased by a “Lobstrocity” down the STRAND. I noticed the reader said STRAND 3 times on the beach scene and I looked up what it meant. That is when I learned that strand was a synonym for beach. This is how this stuff works. I experience a thing, research the thing and then experience a thing that directly references the whole process and connects it back to the other strands.
Yesterday I learned about RONALD WILSON REAGAN and the silly 666 connection because each name has 6 letters. This '”fact” is used or makes the facts im showing look similar in that its silly just because a man has 6 letters in each name that he is evil. Then I learned that RONALD moved into 666 St Cloud rd Los Angeles. They changed the address to 668 for hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia's sake.
Or rather that 666 is evil?
hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia Is the fear of the number 666. Which is intriguing as you think of the Truman show and the use of FEAR to control the TRUEMAN from awakening to the truth of his reality. They had to keep him on the island, they used his fear of dogs and had him “Lose his father” in a storm just to never get him to try again.
Then I notice the obvious ROLAND RONALD. Which is amusing in light of the William Shakespeare (here was I like a psalm) finding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_Blake >When William was ten years old, his parents knew enough of his headstrong temperament that he was not sent to school but instead enrolled in drawing classes at Pars's drawing school in the Strand.
Theres that STRAND once again akin to a thread of a tapestry that when you trace back to the source you can begin to see something great and complex forming.
My Sync friend says “WILLIAM BLAKESPEAR” and of course I giggled at the obviousness of it. Also to to note WILLIAM is the man in black in WW the man in BLAKe.
But there is a lot more that connects west-world to Shakespeare. As a quote from Shakespeare is the catalyst or codephrase that starts the “awakening” process for the “hosts/robots”.
These violent delights have violent ends. Is from a Romeo and juliet Scene. Peter Abernathy is the HOST with the world in his mind. All of the data of the park is contained within and needed on the outside. http://westworld.wikia.com/wiki/Literary_references It appears the references haven't gone under he noses of the fans of West World. https://www.refinery29.com/2017/08/166480/westworld-dark-tower-movie-connections-time-maze and the connections from darktower too westworld have been noticed as well.
The following Ford quote is from Mary Shelley's novel,
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818):
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire." - Robert Ford (to [Bernard Lowe]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgqOiJcRIIM)
This is Frankenstein's monster reading the same quote that Anthony Hopkins read in West-world. Just another little sync in a beautiful and fascinating web of truth. The connection from Will to Will (blake to shake) is alot more solid however.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pity_(William_Blake))
I am brought too pity when I think of Death stranding
https://www.pcgamer.com/kojima-a-baby-and-william-blake-an-attempt-to-analyze-death-stranding/ http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3467/ then you have others linking The 2 Wills.
http://www.shakespearemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/image1.jpeg Here is a painting of Will to Will. So having painted a collection of Shakespeare's works shows there is some connection. So now I want to dive deeper into the Francis Bacon and Shakespeare connection and that Bacon/shakespeare/Tudor heir to throne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZdqd5El5Y4 This video shows the process of finding the cipher that Baconspeare utilized in his works. The cipher proven time and time again.and its always so elegant and metaphorically artistic. With works like this there is the content which is INCREDIBLE but the WAY in which it was found is more improbable. Seeing the word AUTHOR pop up repeatedly in the ciphers I looked up the etymology.
>Middle English (in the sense ‘a person who invents or causes something’): from Old French
autor, from Latin* aucto
r, from auger
e ‘increase, originate, promote.’ The spelling with t
h arose in the 15th century, and perhaps became established under the influence of authenti*c .
AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE is the Blake poem that lead to these waters.
http://westworld.wikia.com/wiki/Reveries Reveries are in opposite to augeries.
> the reveries were intended as a way of increasing the complexity and believably of a host's behavior. They work by having access to old, supposedly purged, memories from previous roles or just previous days in a host's working life. The memories are not directly available to the host but can be accessed by the reveries gesture class before the storage space assigned to the memory is overwritten.
Like augury is to seeking or divining the future. Reveries are like memories of a past life. These were perhaps the first seed of being able to break free consciously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverie_(TV_series)
This TV show comes on this evening 6-6-18. the second episode title Bond, Jane Bond. The show is about a simulation that people can enter a dreamworld of their design. But the simulation becomes too real and the people get trapped in their fantasies.
>Fidelity is the quality of faithfulness or loyalty. Its original meaning regarded duty in a broader sense than the related concept of fealty. Both derive from the Latin word fidēlis, meaning "faithful or loyal". In the City of London financial markets it has traditionally been used in the sense encompassed in the motto "My word is my bond". >In the fields of scientific modeling and simulation, fidelity refers to the degree to which a model or simulation reproduces the state and behavior of a real world object, feature or condition. Fidelity is therefore a measure of the realism of a model or simulation.[1] Simulation fidelity has also been described in the past as "degree of similarity".[2] In quantum mechanics and optics,[3] the fidelity of a field is calculated as an overlap integral of the field of interest with a reference or target field. In west-world The Human mind androids are tested for fidelity as in can they tell their mind is simulated.... Which is the opposite of REVERIE as the FIDELITY is too good and people are getting stuck in the simulation. Its quite beautiful the juxtaposition present. People choosing to be in a simulation and people realizing they are in a simulation against their will.
Speaking of Fidelity, it seems that has been breaking down rather nicely in my reality, Its so hard to write out because it just keeps accumulating but here are some of today's discoveries.
I mentioned above that I found the atoll that is close too the antipode of Mecca. I noticed the rows of coconut trees. And the wiki talked about nuclear testing going on in the area. A user commented with the idea the “Bikini Bottom” In spongebob square pants was an allusion to that island/atoll. So I look into it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll#/media/File%3AFlag_of_Bikini_Atoll.svg The first thing I notice is this flag..... WTF is going on with this flag
https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/mh-xbn.html >The 23 white stars in the field of blue in the upper left hand corner of the flag represent the islands of Bikini Atoll. The three black stars in the upper right of the flag represent the three islands that were vaporized by the March 1, 1954, 15 megaton hydrogen bomb blast, code named Bravo. The two black stars in the lower right hand corner represent where the Bikinians live now, Kili Island, 425 miles to the south of Bikini Atoll, and Ejit Island of Majuro Atoll. These two stars are symbolically far away from Bikini's stars on the flag as the islands are in real life (both in distance and quality of life). The Marshallese words running across the bottom of the flag, "MEN OTEMJEJ REJ ILO BEIN ANIJ" [Translation: "Everything is in the hands of God."], represent the words spoken in 1946 by the Bikinian leader, Juda, to U.S. Commodore Ben Wyatt when the American went to Bikini to ask the islanders -- on a Sunday after church -- to give up their islands for the 'good of all mankind' so that the U.S. could test nuclear weapons. The close resemblance of the Bikinian's flag to the flag of the United States is to remind the people and the government of America that a great debt is still owed by them to the people of Bikini."
A very interesting story. And the metaphor of them making it look like the USA flag to shame the USA is pretty clever. But the name is what is mind blowing.
The island's English name is derived from the German colonial name
Bikini given to the atoll when it was part of
German New Guinea. The German name is transliterated from the
Marshallese name for the island,
Pikinni, (
[pʲi͡ɯɡɯ͡inʲːii̯]),
Pik" meaning "surface" and "
Ni" meaning "coconut", or
surface of coconuts.
Remember above when I found the island of coconuts that was an atoll 500 miles from the Marshall islands where the name of the land is a “Surface of Coconuts” and how that part of the world was used by France for their nuclear testing.
So what about bikinis that people wear.
>Fashion designer
Jacques Heim from Paris released a two-piece swimsuit design in 1946 that he named the Atome. Like swimsuits of the era, it covered the wearer's navel, and it failed to attract much attention.
Parisian automotive engineer and designer
Louis Réard introduced his design soon after.
[3] His skimpy design was risque, exposing the wearer's navel and much of her buttocks. No runway model would wear it, so he hired a
nude dancer from the
Casino de Paris to model it at a review of swimsuit fashions. He named the swimsuit after the
Bikini Atoll, where the first public test of a
nuclear bomb had taken place only four days before.
>In May 1946,
Jacques Heim produced a two-piece swimsuit that he named the "Atome," which he advertised as the world's "smallest bathing suit".
[4][5] The bottom of Heim's swimsuit was just large enough to cover the wearer's navel. To promote his new design, Heim hired
skywriters to fly above the Mediterranean resort advertising the Atome as "the world’s smallest bathing suit."
[6][7][8] ATOME you mean like ATOM BOMB? Also french for ATOM. Which was the smallest thing known about by a majority of people
>Réard quickly produced his own swimsuit design which was a
string bikini consisting of four triangles made from only 30 square inches (194 cm2) of fabric printed with a newspaper pattern.
[2] When Réard sought a model to wear his design at its debut presentation, none of the usual models would wear the suit, so he hired 19-year-old
nude dancer Micheline Bernardini[9] from the
Casino de Paris to model it.
[10] >He introduced his new swimsuit, which he named the
bikini, to the media and public in Paris on 5 July 1946
[11] at
Piscine Molitor, a popular public pool in Paris at the time.
[12][13] >He introduced his design four days after the first test of a nuclear weapon at the . The newspapers were full of news about it and Reard hoped for the same with his design.
Not to be outdone by Heim, Réard hired his own skywriters to fly over the [French Riviera](advertising his design as "smaller than the smallest bathing suit in the world." Photographs of Bernardini and articles about the event were widely carried by the press. The [
International Herald Tribune] alone ran nine stories on the event.
Who knew the battle for tiny swimming cloth supremacy could be so explosive. And what a peculiar reason for a naming convention from ATOME too BIKINI because we blew up atome bombs on the lands covered in coconuts...... One place by the french and the other by America.
Well folks every day that passes another dumptruck of syncs and links within the research pop up. This one has been hella entertaining for me though. Ill end this with the peak of the journey so far.
As always it starts with a search. I somehow came across this movie
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129885/)
I had never seen this movie in all my researches into dog-star or Sirius. (of which were numerous). I asked my sync friend and they too had never seen it, both of us avidly searching.
So I google “Dogstar 1997 trailer” and what stands out like a sore thumb is this.
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIO8DSq0tNXauo8RJbzpdOYAGdU-VNrOD)
“Orion (Mighty hunteNimrod) and Sirius Dogstar OZ(iris) “ I stared at the name and the content of the playlists. Getting hit with so many pings, so many videos I had seen or mentioned in my previous posts. That was when I noticed the Link in the Playlist description.
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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ybf_O2QE37Y/UzMVmXsyMGI/AAAAAAAAiOg/pKcGoEdpXjQ/s1600/23+dr+sirius+leary.jpg)
I had to stand up when I saw this as earlier this month I made this!
https://imgur.com/GBwe8un Mine is a bit convoluted as you can see but the two images He used were in the same order as mine. I could feel the frission, hairs standing on back of your neck. I saw that her had other playlists.
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https://www.youtube.com/useKyleBemmann/playlists)
Looking here you can see there are the various playlists are like archetypes or symbol groupings seen in moves music ect. So I was like has this guy posted any videos.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_URF6susdSU&t=106s)
Opens with the Smile and Frown of the Shakespearean stage. Then shows that the park was built by free-masons.
I check the date..... The video was posted 11 hours before I found it. Youtube channel in existence since 2010
http://goo.gl/Kxm8ud.
This was on his about page..... He appears to have put a large amount of work and effort into sharing. And the particular series of events in finding his channel and then realizing he just posted 8 years after he made his account and that day being 6-6....... Ive been compiling this for three days and yet there is so much more, take any thread and pull and you are sure to find something.
Keep seeking friends the answers are out there.
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