My idea of the perfect future is: The scene opens on a world that appears totally primitive. People are naked, people are orgiastic, people are nomadic. But when they close their eyes there are menus hanging in space. Culture has been internalized. Culture is supposed to be internalized. All this talk about virtual reality -- people don't seem to notice -- this is a virtual reality. These are all ideas -- ideas that have been forced into matter so that we could live in a reconstruction of our imagination. And de-constructing these virtual realities in which we live is the only way to get back to some sort of baseline of what it is to be human. And then you can carry culture with you. Culture was never meant to be materially realized. Culture is an intellectual object like a philosophy or a belief system.

Terence Mckenna in interview with Gracie & Zarkov

This module is intended for education purposes only. Anyone interested in learning with me is welcome to read along as I add notes and my interpretations of what I learn. The subject matter will include Sciences as well as maths as I get to it, starting with Biology, Genetics, Neurology and my favourite subject of all, Physics.

Topics will not be clearly defined or in a particular order, but will flow from one thing to another as I make connections and integrate ideas into a coherent picture. My goal is to learn and gain as much understanding as possible about life and the world we live in from what people have learned so far through modern science. I think this picture of reality is much underappreciated in today’s society, which is itself a product of scientific applications. I have always had an interest for scientific ideas and discoveries about the world. This is why I chose to study it in the first place, it fascinates me.

Although I am doing this blog as an aid to my own learning process, I sincerely hope others will stumble upon it and find the topics as interesting as I do.

11/01/2009