RT @nick_routledge: @RyanHaecker The metaphysical significance of hypertextual cybernetics cannot be overstated. Typically, it goes completely unobserved. Why? "Hypertext," noted Michael Heim, in his 1995 text, 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality', "refers to the existence of a hidden or unnoticed dimension."
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Copy of tweet here: Lovely. Was driving to a first-time rendez-vous with Lindisfarne fellow Ralph Abraham, one of the founders of chaos theory, and authoritative on Teilhard de Chardin's concept of planetary consciousness consolidation as it relates to the Cloud, when I stopped for a hitchhike: It’s 1995. A hitch-hiking day-laborer, morning-drunk, asks me why I’m headed toward UCSC and Ralph H. Abraham. Judging him, I try opaque deflection: “To talk about the shift to a collective consciousness.” “Oh,” my passenger replies, “That’s the next step in evolution, isn’t it?”r... QT: Dedicated to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955 - Frontspiece to The Web Empowerment Book, 1995, co-authored by Ralph Abraham, author of CHAOS, GAIA, EROS: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of History, 1994.
@NatureSchoolSU I get asked that quite often! Many are the reasons I publish only to the web, but above all it's because the very fabric of cyberspace - hypertext - duplicates and combines with the essential structure of natural reality and thought in ways no other communication medium affords.
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