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'Transcendental Meditation' by David Lynch
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'Newton' (1795)
by William Blake
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Mirrored Mind.
A profound memoir where Chandra reveals code as spiritual practice. Through meditative contemplation, the coder dissolves into the code itself. Programming emerges as poetry, a recursive grammar generating infinite possibilities from finite rules, bridging computational thinking and Hindu philosophy's approach to consciousness and reality. /gen-art
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https://x.com/isjuustadream/status/2017772237860851971?s=46
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@hyp
Is it really that strange that a being would be the camera, the projector, the screen and the director?
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Feedback mechanisms, think recursion, are surprisingly new even as they are ubiquitous in biology and many systems today. This may be why we have trouble
naturally grokking recursive systems like our own minds. (Many zen koans are attempting to get one to see recursion that seems counterintuitive)
1800s saw many new ones.
One of the first?
The floatball mechanism we still have in most home toilets.
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Consciousness is making a comeback.
Gotta figure out our own before we can start assessing the machines', I suppose.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610723001128?via%3Dihub
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I agree with at least half of what Hoffman is saying, maybe 80%.
But something about his affect and literal as well as figurative hand waving drives me nuts.
https://youtu.be/qobXNImZkl0?si=ObffwlFC-WbLxpbS
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@aether
cozy nativity scenes feel passé,
sharing the Melun Diptych (1452)
by Jean Fouquet, arguably the most
surreal painting of the renaissance
looks like a sci-fi fever dream,
but every strange detail was actually
a massive XVth century flex
here's to bizarre art, and
weird & wonderful holidays 🤍✨
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𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙.
𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚.
𝙉𝙤𝙬, 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮.
— 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘴, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴
sharing a handful of images
from the specatcular m.c. escher exhibition in paris
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𝙒𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙.
—𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘤𝘓𝘶𝘩𝘢𝘯
i like how the mise en abyme visualizes the 'narcosis' McLuhan talked about: the way we numb ourselves by staring endlessly into our own technologies...
TV Tautológia (1990) by Peter Rónai
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@hyp
Our subconscious is much both bigger and smarter than our conscious mind. Make friends with it.
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remembering
that insights often arrive
in a language i don't speak while awake
dreams are the best counter to scrolling
'Survival' (1985)
by Jenny Holzer, in cast aluminum
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