Seven Prophecies of the Future -- Part 2. Cipher [Amy Ireland and Ed Keller]

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome to Seven Prophecies of the Future, a future studies program series that will take you on a transdisciplinary journey of discovery into the unknown. Each episode brings together two guests who will act as oracles, revealing a secret password to enter a realm filled with poetic images and intriguing phenomena…

• 00:08:01

  They'd organised to stay in the King's chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was here, on the 16th of March in 1904, that Crowley conducted a ritual that concluded with Rose falling into a trance and saying to her husband over and over again, they're waiting for you. Crowley was curious about this strange message…

• 00:16:44

  The same hash algorithm will always generate the same hash from the same input, which is why it's called a hash algorithm. And it's a very complex hash system. But if you look at Gematria's old version of Gematria's old version of Gematria's old version of Gematria's old version of Gematria's old version of Gematria's…

• 00:24:16

  It's singularity. It's singularity and intensity is all derived from the absolute lack of encryption. And this experience is so intimate in Fools that not even lifelong partners choose to do it. So I'm going to read a quote from the book that describes the experience of going mind to mind with someone else. He…

• 00:31:45

  You could never translate it properly into any language. So there's one take on this response to Jason's question or prompt. Another way would be to say to experience zero subjectively might be the equivalent of non-being. And that's also very different than noise. It would be the cessation of all subjective…

• 00:42:00

  Cause effect relations are indecipherable if they even apply at all. And, you know, in, in terms of dimensions, like dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions…

• 00:50:48

  Sometimes they're in direct communication with each other, and sometimes they're ciphers for each other. So humans have tried to handle this problem. We've created closed world, isolated ecosystems like the Biosphere Project. We imagine doing this in space. We've seen the problems of closed worlds. This is, of course…

• 00:57:24

  What most primitive algorithms might govern and constitute the rules which form the temples we have seen across history and also the temples we might build today? What forms of society, politics, biology, love, and mind would these temples make possible? Excellent. So this will be answered in the next episode of Seven…