Altered States Of Conversation

Psychedelic philosophy without the ordinary substances. Part talk, part improv audience participation. Filmed on March 13 2022 at Esoteric Transformational Festival in Victoria, Australia.

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Thank you to Fyodor, Evan, and Cameron Duffy for stepping up to join me.

A Voicecraft session in the mode of Freeform, seeking to address the critical tension of naming the nameless.

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Recorded in February 2022, this Voicecraft session features members of the Voicecraft Network: returning voices O.G. Rose and Tyler Hollett, along with Voicecraft Network contributors Kyle McGahee, Ethan Wells, Jurnee Manu, and Tom Lyons.

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The invitation that went out to network members was as follows:

Over some years I have watched as developing fields of intention, understanding, and interaction--or said from another angle: hopes, dreams, and concerns--have clustered together in digital space and time.

And, umm, if you'll indulge the following..

From psychedelic fractal, ayahuascic dimension shifting, tribal vibing meta visions of nu-enlightenment bed-making responsibilities, to the renaissance of dark webs and deep webs and spider webs and web 3s; and religions that aren't religions for the spirituals without religions; plus some old religions and new games, with old impulses in new clothes, and new impulses with no money; then some bildung for the meta-crisis, nurturing home grown humans and liminal sensemakers to authentically circle with antagonic shamanistic intellectuals, while dialogos makes socratic music from indigenous adjacent technologist integrals playing warmly with post-institutional relationalists to reconnect the masculine and the feminine. And all of that on the way to the para-academic invisible college built on wiser pathways from digital ports through uncanny valleys of friendship and peerage. Just so that we can have adventures, dinner and families, and drama worth having with laughter and tension in contexts that matter and that we matter to.. in openness to process with what is and what could be.

Tongue in cheek -- without claiming at all to make sense -- if you are here in this network, chances are you pay attention to several different communities, podcasts, youtubers, discourse pockets, sensemaking webs of liminality populated by seen and unseen change making edgelords.

In the void of integrity in the heart of (un)spoken society, in a polarising war of attritional addiction, in a post death of God world without rituals for death, (and therefore in the wake, just a bunch of undead gods--of ideology and scarcely inhabitable narrative--) some (lots) of people were all like: can we coordinate somewhere to talk about this?

For several years, plus more before and more to come, people seem to need to name where they are, who is there, who is really there and who is not, and why...so that we can kind of tell others who we are and where we are and maybe what we like or hold hope in or want to gain recognition for being in and and and----

There is a deeper conversation to have here about naming and not naming. Of ists and isms and the deeper than language which coordinates in language; about the relationship between signalling and signal ineffable; about integrity, growth, inclusion and exclusion, relating to and with the 'wider public', as well as with oneself in the work of deeper truth.

This invitation is to come ready for participation in dialogue.

Thank you for your time and energy.

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Thank you to O.G. Rose, Tyler Hollett, Kyle McGahee, Jurnee Manu, Ethan Wells, and Tom Lyons.

This is a conversation about the nature of value, wealth and exchange in consideration of the paradigm shifting digital communications platforms we’re almost all inexorably tied to. It begins with my asking Matthew how he thinks about the nature of thinking itself, and also about what matters in life.

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Matthew Pirkowski is a philosopher with keen insight into humanity's relationship to an accelerating digital age.

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A selection of Matthew's publications at https://medium.com/@matthewpirkowski

Connect with Tim at https://twitter.com/tim_adalin

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Timestamps:

02:12 - What is thinking and how does Matthew think?

06:15 - On what matters, values and interaction

12:54 - On Twitter and the emergent shadow of the collective unconscious

21:37 - Digital communication, sensemaking and existential risk

30:56 - Powerful media, foolish motion

35:35 - Towards a more adaptive collective intelligence and epistasis

44:17 - Considering value and exchange in the context of new representational structures

1:08:11 - Money, wealth, fungibility and non-fungibility in the emergent digital landscape

1:22:21 - Hopes for the future

A dialogic adventure into the mysteries of mind, memetics, and NFTs, in consideration of what really matters.

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A profound intellectual journey into the depths of the meaning crisis and existential risk, in the context of generative response. Recorded in August 2021.

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Guy, Gregg & O.G. join Tim for a dialogue at voicecraft.network. Themes of conversation include fatherhood, cultivating culture, friendship, and prophets.

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The second of four explorations into the philosophy of lack w/ philosophers Cadell Last, Alex Ebert, O.G. Rose & Tim Adalin. Recorded mid July 2021.

As introduced by Cadell: "We started our first discourse on lack in the context of the origin of philosophy in the Parmenidean presupposition of absolute being banishing the void; and its relationship to the emergence of psychoanalysis as a discipline that operates by necessity in the void of subjectivity. In our second discourse, I propose to shift our context to Democritus, and his atomist ontology, which we may say is the spontaneous unofficial metaphysics of scientific materialism (i.e. the universe at base is divided between indivisible somethings and nothing (“the void”). However, the complimentary opposite of atoms, the void, is often left unthought by scientific materialists, leaving open-ended the philosophical consequences of a presence that depends on absence. For Democritus, a presence that depends on absence signifies an important distinction vis-a-vis thinking “the real” (or fundamental reality), namely, that the most essential cannot be either a being (atoms, something), and neither can it be a non-being (void, nothing), but a paradox of the two. He referred to this paradox of the two as a “not-nothing”, or what we might call “Lack”. What does thinking Lack as a fundamental reality mean for scientific materialism?"

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Recorded in February 2021, this dialogue is a fascinating beginning to refraction between highly developed philosophies, with variance in background and style, and shared interest in existential risk and cultural transformation in relation to technology.

Alexander Bard is a philosopher, writer, artist, record producer, and founder of the Syntheist religious movement. Alexander has written three books with Jan Söderqvist on the internet revolution, collectively known as The Futurica Trilogy, in addition to two later books, Syntheism; and Digital Libido: Sex, Power, and Violence in the Network Society: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Libido-Violence-Network-Society/dp/9188869237

Forrest Landry is a philosopher, writer, researcher, scientist, engineer, craftsman, and teacher focused on metaphysics, the manner in which software applications, tools, and techniques influence the design and management of very large scale complex systems, and the thriving of all forms of life on this planet.

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The first of four explorations into the philosophy of lack w/ philosophers Cadell Last, Alex Ebert, O.G. Rose & Tim Adalin.

As introduced by Cadell: "Philosophy is a discipline classically concerned with "Being", or the presence of Something. Why is there Something rather than Nothing? However, after more than a century of psychoanalysis, we may say that the human subject is an entity of Lack, or that Lacks. Thus, the human subject is a Being constituted by a contradictory identity, constantly attempting to fill in the persistent feeling that there is "Something missing". In this conversation series, we seek to enquire deeper about the experience and the philosophy of Lack, and ultimately, what such a philosophy might say about our contemporary culture. Why is there Nothing rather than Something?"

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Access Philosophy of Lack I through IV, the series show notes, and streamed video @ https://www.voicecraft.io/lack

A dialogue exploring and responding to themes and questions relating to collective intelligence, distributed wisdom, and dynamics of group formation.

This conversation features the eminent philosophers Forrest Landry and John Vervaeke, along with the independent thinker Tyler Hollett joining Tim in a facilitation capacity.

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