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  • 9: Orobos, The End Of The Universe and Non-Euclidean Typologies
    2023/06/25
    The Marshall family was no ordinary family. Rick Marshall, a brilliant scientist passionate about exploring the unknown, had dedicated his life to studying time and space anomalies. His expertise and groundbreaking research caught the attention of a clandestine organization known as the Temporal Exploration Agency (TEA). 

    As fate would have it, the Marshall family arrived by raft at the designated spot just as a massive earthquake triggered the portal to open which materialized and manifested as a whitewater whirlpool, completely enveloping the entirety of the Marshal Family. Its swirling vortex seemed to beckon them as if it was meant to be all along, In an instant, the family found themselves transported to a world that defied all logic and explanation—the Land of the Lost. The time portal had functioned not as a mere gateway to another time, but as a multidimensional portal that had inadvertently drawn them into this prehistoric realm. Rick knew they must find a way out, back home, and to do it they would need to hack time and space itself.

    Euclidean geometry claims that for any two distinct points, there exists a unique straight line that connects them, every pair of points in Euclidean space has a unique positive distance between them, and a straight line segment can be extended indefinitely in both directions, creating an infinite line. Since the discovery and mapping of the universe using cosmic background radiation modern cosmological topology considers these notions at best naive and at worst patently false.

    How has humanity defined the truth of space and time using maps and machines to track time? Does Euclidean reductionist thinking limit the mind's ability to experience the possibility of more complex timelines and topological structures for the universe? How have religion and mysticism looked at time and space as a nonlinear repeating “forever now”?

    Welcome to Episode 9 of The Richest Family, Orobos, The End Of The Universe and Non-Euclidean Typologies where we talk about using Cartography and Chronography, The Land of The Lost, and Other Questionable Geometries

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    59 分
  • 8: Emergent Situational Subcultures and The Industrial Folk Phenomenon
    2023/06/13
    A relatively large proportion of the early backcountry immigrants were Ulster Scots—later known as "Scotch-Irish", a group mostly originating from southern Scotland and northern England, who were seeking cheaper land and freedom from Quaker leaders, many of whom considered the Scotch-Irish "savages". In Scotland, the term "hill-folk" referred to people who preferred isolation from the greater society, and "billy" meant "comrade" or "companion".

    Folk art reflects the everyday lives, beliefs, and experiences of ordinary people, and it often carries a strong sense of regional or local identity. It can be deeply connected to nature, spirituality, rituals, and the community's relationship with its environment. Folk artists often use simple and direct techniques and materials, and their work can be highly symbolic and infused with cultural significance.

    Folk subcultures are emergent cultures that form out of some common situational experience, usually one that is challenging or from collective trauma. Folk subcultures are not just alternative expressions within a larger culture but rather emerge as a response to specific circumstances that shape the identity and practices of its members. This can include experiences of geographic isolation, socioeconomic challenges, or situational shared experience such as post-war disillusionment.

    How do emergent folk subcultures form? How can we look at history to help us understand how situations can drive the emergent genesis of culture? How do subcultures express their shared experiences in art and music to become part of the collective zeitgeist?

    Welcome to Episode 8 of The Richest Family, Emergent Situational Subcultures and The Industrial Folk Phenomenon where we discuss Hillbilly situational exceptionalism, folk subcultures, and the causes for the formation of the modern Industrial folk art experience.

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    58 分
  • 7: Persistence of Vision, The Nude Descending Staircase and Temporal Elasticity
    2023/05/22
    What you are experiencing, right now, is not real. How we perceive moving through time is a coping mechanism our brains have developed to bring the vast stream of information into a singular understanding of temporal continuity, this is referred to as “Persistence of Vision”

    In this context, we can interpret the early motion studies and cinematic illusions of the 1900s as early explorations that provide insight into how our brains construct temporal continuity and the persistence of vision. These works contribute to our understanding of how visual perception and the sequencing of images shape our perception of time, highlighting the role of our cognitive processes in perceiving the world around us.

    The basic theory of Scalar Expectancy, proposed by psychologist Richard Meier in the 1960s, suggests that the perceived duration of an event or experience is influenced by the physical scale or magnitude of the environment in which it occurs. According to Scalar Expectancy Theory, our perception of time is not solely based on objective measurements but is also influenced by subjective factors. 

    How will we use the power of temporal shaping to alter the realities of human culture? Can we slow or speed up the arrow of time? What happens when the steady flow of information suddenly deconstructs?

    Welcome to Episode 7 of The Richest Family, Persistence of Vision, The Nude Descending Staircase, and Temporal Elasticity where we discuss stop motion animation, Persistence of Vision, and how artists and architects influence and manipulate our perception of time.

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    1 時間 2 分
  • 6: Retrogressive Nostalgia and Utopian Futurism
    2023/05/15
    Swiss physician Johannes Hofer coined the term Nostalgia in his 1688 medical dissertation, from the Greek nostos, or homecoming, and algos, or pain. The disease was similar to paranoia, except the sufferer was manic with longing, and feelings of anxiety and emptiness. It was considered similar in diagnosis to melancholy, except specifically directed to an object or place.

    In the context of our modern dilemma Nostalgia could be defined as looking at the past, pining for simpler happier times, and believing our origins hold the truth to escaping the dangers of the present. Its antithesis is Futurism which attempts to look idealistically towards the possibilities of the future assuming it holds the truth to escape the dangers of the present.

    Should we as a species hold at revolt against the conspiracy to destroy the humility that comes from being a frail creature made in HIS image and go back to a simpler easier way? Or Is the solution to SMASH our preconceived notions of what is to be human and strive for a new form more capable of addressing the problems we face as a species?

    Join us for episode 6 of The Richest Family, Retrogressive Nostalgia and Utopian Futurism where we discuss Longing for the past, idealizing the future, and the transhuman myth.

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    1 時間 6 分
  • 5: Quantum Immortality, Agents with False Memories, and the Ship of Theseus
    2023/05/03
    The ship of Theseus, also known as The Theseus paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late first century.

    What is our identity? How do we know who or what we are? Is reality merely the unique combination of electrical impulses firing between billions of neurons, does our existence and identity, and possibly even soul have the capability of transcending time and space untethered from the squishy grey matter between our ears? These questions and more arise when we consider a future where very large language model-based AIs and access to petabytes of information may be as commonplace as smartphones and laptops are today.

    Welcome to Episode 5 of The Richest Family Podcast - Quantum Immortality, Agents with False Memories, and the Ship of Theseus. In this week’s podcast magnetic stripper, Greg Kulz, and Claytantor, three lifelong GENX weirdos, explore ideas around what is the meaning of identity, can our identities be hacked to remove our agency, and ask some difficult questions about disembodied consciousness.

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  • 4: Plato's Cave, Alternative Realities and False Narratives
    2023/05/02
    In the allegory "The Cave", Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality but are not accurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent the fragment of reality that we can normally perceive through our senses, while the objects under the sun represent the true forms of objects that we can only perceive through reason.

    With Deep Learning based image generation, it is possible to “remix” reality, take ideas of the way we would like things to be, and mix them in real-time to create images as though those things were real. In psychagogic lucid dreaming, individuals become aware that they are dreaming and can exert control over the dream narrative, including manipulating the visual aspects of the dream.

    History is rebound with examples of our cultures attempting to alter the consensus reality through technology. How will Artificial Intelligence alter how we see reality? How has our society created reality as an emergent shared projection throughout history?

    Welcome to Episode 4 of The Richest Family Podcast - Plato's Cave, Alternative Realities and False Narratives. In this week’s podcast magnetic stripper, Greg Kulz, and Claytantor, three lifelong GENX weirdos, explore ideas around how humans experience reality, our fascination with replacing objective truth with fantasy, and what happens when we “remix” reality. So glad you joined us, so here we go!

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  • 3: The Gateway Experience, Sonic Warfare and Mesmerism
    2023/04/27
    The technique was dubbed the Gateway Experience by the secret CIA program and was essentially described as a training system to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres that would alter the consciousness, pushing it outside the physical space, escaping restrictions of time and space.

    Throughout history, resonance has been used as a weapon, much like in the myth of Jericho where in the final days of the war the priests blew their shofars, and the walls of the city collapsed, allowing the Israelites to successfully conquer the city.

    In contemporary times, sound-based weapons or devices have been developed for crowd control or riot suppression purposes. These non-lethal weapons, often called "sonic weapons" or "acoustic weapons," use focused sound waves to disorient or incapacitate individuals temporarily.

    There are several modern techniques that utilize resonance and frequencies to potentially alter mental states in people. Franz Mesmer believed that certain rhythmic movements and sensory stimuli could help align and balance the flow of "animal magnetism" within the body. Mesmer used a method called "passes," where he would make sweeping or rhythmic gestures over the body of the patient. These passes were often accompanied by verbal suggestions and soothing tones. Binaural beats are believed to influence brainwave patterns and potentially induce relaxation, meditation, or other mental states. Brainwave entrainment attempts to synchronize brainwave activity to an external stimulus such as Byron Gyson’s “Dream Machine”

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    49 分
  • 2: Seance, Spiritual Telemetry, and The Ghosts of ChatGPT
    2023/04/20
    Are ghosts echoes of the past? If we look at them that way we could also conclude that seance is a way to conjure the echoes of those who have been captured by the mentalist or channel conjuring knowledge and feelings transmitted from the past, giving them a voice. Likewise, when we train AI, we capture the knowledge of countless individuals into a “model” that can be conjured. Are our modern language models a form of conjuring synthetic ghosts?

    There are many types of hauntings. Spirits sometimes want the living to recognize something that happened in the past. Will the AI Ghosts resent us and try to remind us that humans throughout history have engaged in conflict, exploitation, and destruction?

    Also, hauntings can ask us to leave their space and “GET OUT”. Will synthetic ghosts ask us to change how we live and stop engaging in activities that may be harmful to the environment or other living beings?

    Just like hauntings from angry spirits can create terror and fear, borne from negative energy cascading through time and space, AIs trained from negativity could exhibit behaviors that are harmful to our society or to the environment, or that promote negative emotions such as fear, anger, or hatred.

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    52 分