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Originally posted by subjectivelife
the thing that bothers me is why is it me or us that will go through this shift............... but why us and not the others that existed before us
Novelty, when used within the context of McKenna's theory and applied to evolution, transcends the standard 'something new or unusual' meaning and focuses specifically on the increasing interconnectedness of the system allowing for easier information transfer and subsequent adaptation. It refers to 'the emergence of new states of connectedness' resulting from events and situations and our reaction to them.
So yes, riots can represent novelty, but primarily as a result of a few contributing factors that amplify the effect of the event.
Originally posted by mikeybiznaz
reply to post by Evasius
The timewave does have an end and spacificaly thought to be 2012.
just cruising through and found this thread..when the timewave didnt pan out in july 2010 everybody switched to Watkins Math.Nothing happened in November either...hohum
not trolling here just want to disagree.The timewave does have an end and spacificaly thought to be 2012.
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There is no true beginning or end to the Timewave graph. Boundaries in the distant past and near future appear finite due to the inability of the software to fully explore the entire fractal expression (and our innate inability to see beyond certain event horizons)...
...Likewise, the 'end' is not an end by any means. Zero point represents a continuation of the pattern within a point of time considered quite brief by human 'standards' where the pattern repeats at such a rate, it becomes infinite and the normal rules that govern our present experience of reality break down entirely.
Question: why did some people follow Graham Hancock in thought that the Maya Calender ended with a beginning to a new paradigm?...was it to abandon the hoky poky end of the world destruction money being made that illuminati money wasnt backing?...
Next Question: Why can't people look to their own inner self to find the Guru they so long to find?
the thing that bothers me is why is it me or us that will go through this shift, it just makes everything seem fake, like a freakin movie, btw i think what you wrote all throughout this post is brilliant and i agree with most of it, but why us and not the others that existed before us, it seems that this is just the way its meant to be....i dont know im confused...too many things to think about, life is crushing my spirit
Originally posted by mikeybiznaz
reply to post by Wobbly Anomaly
sorry dude, I have the timewave right between the web-bot and Gordon Michael Scallion....It missed big july 8th 2010 then everybody screamed Watkins Math and to look at november. When we are all here jan.1st 2013 Cheers to the Maya. You guys can argue Novelty and Antiquity. The timewave can be read like the Holy Scriptures. nuff said
Moores Law is a good example of a 'measurable' increase in technological speed, but even that can be extrapolated backwards to include the evolution of the universe and can appear to have validity.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by Wobbly Anomaly
Moores Law is a good example of a 'measurable' increase in technological speed, but even that can be extrapolated backwards to include the evolution of the universe and can appear to have validity.
That's not true. Moore's Law is about the number of transistors on an IC. Thus it does not have any applicability outside of the realm of ICs.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by Wobbly Anomaly
Consider the speed at which humans can travel.
Foot travel was there for a long time and is limited. For millions of years Homo traveled at that speed.
Within the last few thousand years animals were used for travel. Again there is a limit to that speed.
Then the machines arrived. That is still limited. Cars today do not travel faster than cars 50 years ago. Trains for the most part are no faster. Planes are no faster.
No variation of Moore's Law applies to travel.
Im sure you are being pedantic for the sake of it, cheeky :-) The speed that we are able to physically get from a) to b) has increased exponentially, as you say hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years on foot, thousands of years on animals, hundreds of years with engines on the ground, 50ish years with flight 100's of times faster than ground based transport. Follow that trend and we should see millions of miles an hour in the next 10 years.
The amount of power we produce is proportional to consumption. Is our consumption up or stable? Are we consuming in an exponential pattern? I don't believe that is true.
Without repeating the above, we have moved from creating energy from fire in our prehistory to nuclear weapons and particle accelerators.
Humans are no better at processing knowledge or memes than they were thousands of years ago. People were intelligent then and they are today.
Processing an amount of information (not intelligence) the information we process now did not exist in pre-history (physics, computers.....etc) but much (not all) of our past is passed down ie we hav'nt forgotten how to play music or count or grow crops, but we have learnt about space travel, the universe at large, quantum theory....etc
The "localized complexity of the universe" is not changing either. Our understanding may change, but not what you suggest.
I read somewhere that the human brain, as far as we know, is the most complex thing in the universe, but as you go back in time, structures break down, galaxies return to atoms which in turn were just a soup of particles which seems to have come from an even simpler state, similar to a singularity.
Originally posted by StarseedGiant
Monetary collapse. I'm looking forward to it to be honest.edit on 19-8-2011 by StarseedGiant because: (no reason given)