Join me virtually in Crete next week
I'll give a very unhinged talk on irrational mechanics.
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Please scroll down for the main topic of this newsletter. But first:
Please mark your calendar for the Terasem Colloquium on July 20. You are invited!
The Colloquium will explore diverse points of view on the topic of space expansion in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, it will explore answers to the question:
Should we still want to send human astronauts to colonize space? Or should we want to leave space expansion to AI?
Michelle Hanlon, Moti Mizrahi, Frank Tipler, Stefano Vaj, Frank White, and Robert Zubrin have confirmed that they’ll give talks at the Colloquium.
Physicist and popular science commentator Sabine Hossenfelder has produced a new video explainer titled "What is empty space?"
Hossenfelder explains vacuum fluctuations and vacuum energy, aka zero-point energy, in empty space. As usual, her explanation is good and useful. But then she accuses some scientists of the ideological crime (horror!) of suggesting that zero-point energy could be used to do things. Some scientists propose ways to tap the zero-point energy, and some even suggest spiritual ideas based on the zero-point energy. Hossenfelder calls this “pseudoscience.”
“The bottom line is that all these ideas about driving machines with zero-point energy are pseudoscientific quackery,” she says. But others, equally respectable (whatever that means) scientists take these ideas very seriously (not only the energy extraction prospects, but also the spiritual ideas).
To me, the pious name calling “pseudoscience” is ideological virtue signaling that adds nothing. When I hear it I call B U L L S H I T - on the caller, not the called.
I like Hossenfelder and praise her efforts to bring advanced science to the public. And she is no stranger to heretic, politically incorrect science herself. But here I think she is bowing to the bureaucrats of science and dismissing real science.
I’ll participate remotely in the Aetheria Symposia I in Crete. I’ll give a talk on Monday 23.
From the Aetheria website:
Aetheria serves as Black Sky Society’s prototype Skylab, a transcendence-focused creative research center nestled between olive groves near the base of Mt. Ida. Set beneath the Mediterranean sky, this sanctuary provides the atmosphere where deep work and inner exploration converge, bridging the material and metaphysical through avant-garde science, art, and technology.
Our first Symposia - a series of symposium-style gatherings inspired by the Ancient Greek tradition - invites you to experience thought-provoking seminars, socratic dialogues, collaborative workshops, and opening and closing banquets where ancient wisdom meets the frontiers of science, existence, consciousness, and human potential.
Our opening symposium establishes the foundational groundwork for interdisciplinary inquiry.
introduces Black Sky Society and the metaphysical architecture guiding our investigations, while Giulio Prisco virtually unveils the emerging street science of irrational mechanics. Anastasia Kriuchkova presents her analytical approach to astrology, and Giek (Stephanie Smit) explores innovative methods for investigating reincarnation and past-life phenomena.
Irrational mechanics is street science, street philosophy, street metaphysics, street theology, by the people and for the people. By the people because it is open to maverick thinkers and unaffiliated outsiders, for the people because it wants to give hopeful and empowering answers to the big questions that we all ask.
Irrational mechanics extends old science just like irrational numbers extend rational numbers. I call it irrational also (you guessed) as a fuck-you-very-much to the “rational” bureaucrats of science.
Irrational mechanics explores psi phenomena, consciousness, and free will as integral to reality. It wants to redefine our cosmic purpose and unlock breakthroughs like psychic powers, faster-than-light travel, time travel, and even the resurrection of the dead.
Irrational mechanics blends science, religion, and science fiction, envisioning a mysterious and magic universe where advanced technologies fulfill humanity’s wildest dreams. It fosters a new, science-inspired religion compatible with an infinitely complex reality.
This is my own personal metafysics, or religion. I hope you can use some of my thoughts to build your own metafysiks.
Please come an listen! You can register as a virtual guest for free. Or (better) buy a last minute flight to Crete and register to attend in person.