If We Don’t Know What Consciousness Is Or Means, Why Are We So Scared Of It?

(Originally posted on Patreon, on November 18, 2014)

This post now resides at AFutureWorthThinkingAbout.com

If We Don’t Know What Consciousness Is Or Means, Why Are We So Scared Of It?

Fairytales Of Slavery: Societal Distinctions, Technoshamanism, and Nonhuman Personhood

This post now resides at AFutureWorthThinkingAbout.com

Fairytales Of Slavery: Societal Distinctions, Technoshamanism, and Nonhuman Personhood

A Future Worth Thinking About

This, I believe, http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/ will be the official blog space for my Patreon project, “A Future Worth Thinking About.” Partially because I feel need to differentiate it from the random noodling I do on Tumblr, and partially because I need a blog for that project with actual formatting tools.

Coming soon: A post about race, institutional power dynamics, and robots!

A Future Worth Thinking About

buddyblanc:

“Per aspera ad astra or Ad astra per aspera is a Latin phrase which means any of the following: “Through hardships to the stars”, “A rough road leads to the stars” or “To the stars through difficulties”.” (via)

My friend Sandra sometimes sends me little sets of three photos, and leaves it up to me to come up with a story that binds them all together – in this case, some Latin that I stumbled across while reading up on Jack Parsons, the “brilliant young rocket scientist and occultist […]  one of the country’s top chemical engineers, a founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the inventor of the solid fuel that would take man to the moon.”

Jack once visited me in a dream, in the form of comics great Jack Kirby, and told me some great big important secret that I would only be able to recall when the time is right.

Still waiting, Jack(s).

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