Jeff, thanks for the support. Cliché as it sounds, I do love the (first) Matrix. It deserves an enormous amount of credit for popularizing concepts previously considered the realm of scientists and philosophers. In fact, the exact moment I fell for the Matrix was early on when it prominently featured Simulacra & Simulation, a book I first learned of from Kelly’s Out of Control. There is no spoon.

I cannot help but think of the movie, The Matrix, as the overall framework of where we are going. It touches on so many key concepts. I read on Kevin Kelly’s site that the actors in the movie had to read Kevin Kelly’s book before opening the original script.

It then gets all too real when you read about what companies like Emotiv are doing with neuroheadsets.

And that’s rare. I’m speechless because I feel I’ve experienced the power of what you and Kevin Kelly are talking about!

And it can’t help but create a revolution, both exciting and unpredictable.

The whole thing really is leading to new definitions, new capabilities and new boundaries for consciousness and identity!

It will affect everything from our attitudes on privacy to sex.

And it’ll also pose great challenges.

We’re creating something “Out of Control!”

I ran across an interesting concept recently arising from computational biology. (Now there’s a hot field!)

In investigating the networks and sub-networks within a cell and the patterns of gene activation that keep it alive they found out that these systems, for best health must be neither orderly nor chaotic, but must operate at a balancing point between the two called “criticality”.

Too much order and the living system can’t react to change. Too much chaos and it reacts inappropriately or not at all and collapses.

So what’s all that mean?

Life is messy… but it beats all the alternatives.

And abandon ideologies that strive for some utopian order. You’ll never find one… and shouldn’t!

I just realized something like the above most likely is already part of the paradigm but…

I’m just tuning in!