Approximation Quote by Terence McKenna Download Open image “History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.” — Terence McKenna ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Approximation Finals History Series Singularity
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“To become aware of our history is to become aware of our singularity.” — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there. — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The prediction that the Singularity—an expansion of human intelligence by a factor of trillions through merger with its nonbiological form—will occur within the next… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
History enters when the space of the possible is vastly larger than the space of the actual — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make… — Paola Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature.… — A. D. Patel Copy Share Image
Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation. — Lev Landau Copy Share Image
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