#rupert sheldrake

[earthisaperson]

For many, their spiritual or mystical experience seemed to be of supreme importance, but they were unable to discuss it with their families and friends for fear of ridicule or being thought mentally unbalanced. This research has revealed in fact that there is a widespread taboo in our society against admitting to such experience…. If nature is inanimate, then experience of a mystical connection with a living presence or power in nature must be illusory, and so it is best not to pay too much attention to it lest it have an unbalancing effect on the rational mind. But if nature is alive, such an experience of a living connection may be just what it seems to be.

—Rupert Sheldrake in The Return of Nature

[cybersop]

This is a wild theory I haven't refined yet, it aligns with emerging fringe science I've been learning about. I'm not typically one to theorize, it just dawned on me.. probably off but genuinely intriguing. It involves bioelectric fields (intrinsically linked to electromagnetic fields) as information substrate... and "anatomical morphous space" as a collective intelligence.

My hypothesis (approximately) : Pluribus is not a “hive mind” but a distributed bioelectric organism whose unit of selfhood spans multiple bodies. Humans act as bioelectrically cohered modules. Each individual is analogous to a cell. Pluribus maintains a persistent, low-frequency informational field similar to morphogenetic fields. They don't communicate telepathically, it's entrainment (the process where one rhythm or system synchronizes with another... the theme visuals as a nod to that) No individual of the hive contains the whole, just as individual cells don't contain the blueprint of the whole organism. Their plan only exists at the collective level.

Cognition all the way down... This is an amalgamation of what I've picked up from watching Michael Levin's YouTube. He's the biologist who lead the invention of xenobots/anthrobots. (AI correlation) There's something about how agential materials cannot be micro managed. They can only be motivated/prompted into recognizing an imperative. In this sense, intelligence emerges not from control, but from constraint and incentive within a shared informational field. Cells, tissues, organs all have respective cognitions in that they peruse goals and correct errors, just at varying spatiotemporal scales. The “self” is not fixed, it's defined by what information a system integrates and outcomes it cares about. Pluribus represents an expanded self-boundary, where identity and agency operate at a higher organizational scale.

It's as though pluribus is an enclosed microcosm of pre-singularity morphous space... the collective consciousness as their interface, clawing up into tangibility from lower-order substrates/realms... (or from higher organizational scopes of our substance possibly, not sure how it fits) The network memory can be perturbed. Their intelligence is contained, but still receptive to mutations by external consciousnesses. Idkdkkdkdk I will edit as my understanding evolves, I just find it all f a s c i na ting.

If you have any thoughts/critiques/inquiries pertaining to this please please comment or reblog it !!

[rye-ryee]

so what the hell is up with the sheldrake family because they definitely have some sort of tie to the fae right

[amanitaknowsbest]

Was looking up Discworld's morphic field (for reasons, shut up) and encountered another fucking Sheldrake? First Cosmo Sheldrake, then Merlin Sheldrake, and now Rupert Sheldrake. How many more Sheldrakes will I encounter?

[cucamonga-springs]

"We're in the edge of the apocalypse. It's a time storm whose diameter is impossible to estimate; all we know is that the barometric pressure is dropping faster than you've ever seen it drop. And there's an eerie stillness and the light in the sky looks very strange. But nothing has happened - yet." — Terence McKenna

'Trialogue: Apocalypse with Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham', 1995, Esalen Institute, Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

The Evolution of Telepathy | Cambridge University Public Lecture

[entheognosis]

Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels. Ludwig Wittgenstein had the idea that philosophy should be what he called "true enough." I think that's a great idea. True enough is as true as can be gotten. The imagination is chaos. New forms are fetched out of it. The creative act is to let down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended and then to attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Rupert Sheldrake

[didanawisgi]