Hawking reiterates Leary's Terra II proposal from 1974...

what?

Humans must colonize other planets: Hawking
Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:45 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Humans must colonize planets in other solar systems traveling there using "Star Trek"-style propulsion or face extinction, renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking said on Thursday.

Referring to complex theories and the speed of light, Hawking, the wheel-chair bound Cambridge University physicist, told BBC radio that theoretical advances could revolutionize the velocity of space travel and make such colonies possible.

"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out," said Professor Hawking, who was crippled by a muscle disease at the age of 21 and who speaks through a computerized voice synthesizer.

"But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe," said Hawking, who was due to receive the world's oldest award for scientific achievement, the Copley medal, from Britain's Royal Society on Thursday.

Previous winners include Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

In order to survive, humanity would have to venture off to other hospitable planets orbiting another star, but conventional chemical fuel rockets that took man to the moon on the Apollo mission would take 50,000 years to travel there, he said.

Escape the Womb Planet!: It's about Time! DNA Rules!

Remember the Jefferson Airplane porting over to the Jefferson Starship, Frances Crick began speculating that we may be StarSeed! Seeded planets?.... Tim Leary wrote the update of the Bible, called the
Starseed Series: StarSeed, neurologic, Terra II, Exo-PsYchology, Info-Psychology....outlining the Project....then
SMI_2LE! , now the latest implementaion of trying to escape the Womb Planet

a Tale of the Tribe by Allen Ginsberg also the preface to Leary's Jail Notes

see Preface to Jail Notes by Tim Leary , 1970
see new Preface to High Priest, new edition

http://technohippie.com/geeklog/public_html/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20060323151418284


http://www.newearthrecords.com

Track 2: Reaching the Ocean time 12:51 min.Listen mp3

Whole Earth Legacies: Brand, Turner, at Stanford Talk ; 09 Nov. , 00,064 a.L.

really good interview of Turner by RU here>

Fred Turner, author of “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism” joins us on the show today to talk about his thoughtful and critical take on the evolution of net ideology.





November 9, 2006
7:00-8:30 PM Panel Discussion
8:30-9:00 PM Public Reception with the Panelists
Cubberley Auditorium (Map)
Stanford University
Poster (PDF)






Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-chairman of the Long Now Foundation

Kevin Kelly, former executive editor of Wired magazine and author of Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization and New Rules for the New Economy

Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

Fred Turner, moderator and assistant professor of communication, Stanford University, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

With an introduction by Henry Lowood, Curator for Germanic & History of Science Collections, Stanford University Libraries. The panelists will illuminate the extraordinary impact of the Whole Earth Catalog and the American counterculture on contemporary computing and everyday life. The event celebrates the library's one-of-a-kind collection of Whole Earth Papers.

Barlow! EFF! Kapor! Gilmore, doctorow at USC this Tue., 14 Nov., 7 PM

via Boing Boing blog>
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/08/giants_of_cyberliber.html

study your driving directions well!
http://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/driving_directions/



Fulbright Chair Speaker Series: Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, and John Gilmore

Tuesday, Nov 14, 2006
7:00PM



Join Cory Doctorow, the U.S. - Canada Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy, in welcoming Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, and John Gilmore, the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, each a living legend many times over. Kapor founded Lotus and created the popular market for spreadsheets. He now runs the Open Source Applications Forum; Gilmore founded the first dial-up ISP, wrote the world's most widely used compiler, and funds legal campaigns from marijuana law reform to Constitutional challenges to Transport Security Agency regulations; and Barlow is the mad poet who wrote the Grateful Dead's best-loved lyrics and followed that up by penning seminal philosophical documents about the Internet, including the notorious Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. The three of them have not shared a stage in a decade -- until now.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
7:00 pm
Annenberg, Room 207

Francisco Varela updates by friends & family: From AutoPoieSis to NeuroPhenomenology: biophysics of "Doing"

From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology:

Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being

DAVID RUDRAUF, ANTOINE LUTZ, DIEGO COSMELLI, JEAN-PHILIPPE LACHAUX, and MICHEL LE VAN QUYEN

Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, CNRS UPR 640,Paris, France

Corresponding Author: David Rudrauf. Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris Cedex 13, France.
Phone: (33-1) 42 16 11 72 - e-mail: david.rudrauf@chups.jussieu.fr

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews in detail Francisco Varela's work on subjectivity and consciousness in the biological sciences. His original approach to this "hard problem" presents a subjectivity that is radically intertwined with its biological and physical roots. It must be understood within the framework of his theory of a concrete, embodied dynamics, grounded in his general theory of autonomous systems. Through concepts and paradigms such as biological autonomy, embodiment and neurophenomenology, the article explores the multiple levels of circular causality assumed by Varela to play a fundamental role in the emergence of human experience.

Amara Graps talk on Space Water to Earth; 2006 Nov. 06 USC

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Abstract

November 6

Watering the Earth
Amara Graps
Institute of Physics of Interplanetary Space, Rome - Planetary Science Institute, Tucson
Abstract

AG:

Water is one of the key molecules of life, and a fundamental solvent of our own human life form. The planet that spawned our watery origins, Earth, presently carries enough surface water in vapor or liquid form to cover the entire planet to a depth of about 3 km. The fact that nearly three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by seas triggered writer Arthur C. Clarke to question why our planet is called *Earth*, when it could more aptly be called *Ocean*. Driven by our watery origins, we naturally look for other life forms in the universe at the "water hole" (wavelengths 18-21 cm)

"Generally speaking, a molecule becomes ionized if exposed to rough treatment,
and it will recombine if given time to heal its wounds." ---- Hannes Alfvén

Amara Graps:

I am an astronomer in Rome, working on missions that carry INAF's infrared spectrometers. My special interests are circumplanetary dust physics and the origin of water on Earth.

Sometimes, I also write science and engineering-related numerical analysis software and popular science articles for newsletters, magazines, and journals.

http://www.amara.com/

http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/~graps/trail/trail.html

http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/~graps/

Gilles Deleuze conf. today at UCBerkeley, thanks! UC French Dept.!

For Deleuze, the confrontation with chaos deploys the mediums of intelligence, the affect, the percept, function, and the concept. Three autonomous names for the multiple—art, science, philosophy. The ground of their contact and mutual exposure is the simulacrum of ideas, but no idea can appear in a Deleuzian ontology without a material operator by which it is actualized as a variation on the plane of material consistency. A Deleuzian theory of media would ask, “what kind of variation at the level of events is afforded by our material culture?” We must then determine what kind of event is a medium. In keeping with Deleuze’s ontology of immanence we do not align media practice with representation or simulation, only with more or less adequate models of repetition at the level of signals, in short, a propagation of syntax or structural invariants that co-ordinate a space where an event can occur. We must immediately reverse this schema which is necessary for representation but disingenuous to events, which are not predicated on this cultivation of space but erupt continuously as a disarticulating force, the multiple or variable index of forces and relations. A medium is a place of inscription, a possibility of life. The event is not merely a possibility but the actualization of a virtual, which is real but un-mediated. A Deleuzian theory of media must then meet two theoretical and political imperatives: it must enable itself as a structure of registration through which the event can begin to resonate along divergent series (aesthetic, practical, conceptual, technical etc.); it must also propose a kind of historiography of the event which is genealogical, a line of continuous variation that describes the methods of articulating the disorienting violence of the event as it resonates in the heterogenous series.







http://gavinwit.googlepages.com/deleuzeconference


November 3, 2006: UCB Deleuze Conference
This Conference is co-sponsored by the Townsend Center, Dean of Arts and Humanities, French Department, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Anthropology, Rhetoric Department, English Department, Philosophy Department, and Graduate Theological Union. For a conference schedule and description, please click on the link below.

Click here for a full description and a conference schedule

This event will take place at 9:00AM in Howard Room in the Faculty Club.