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Okay, but exactly `who' would escape the Tyranny of the Replicators?

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 12, 2010 /

Found : Okay, but exactly `who’ would escape the Tyranny of the Replicators? At the end of the day who would escape the tyranny of the replicators? To escape the tyranny of memes we should surely have to lose the ability to imitate and instruct and culturally transmit information to one another – and have…

Robots, Goblins and Alien Amoeba: Fermis Paradox

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / January 5, 2007 /

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #100, expanded and revised with original illustrations. Was the Earth colonized by extraterrestrial scientists?

Philp K Dick on Valis, Ubik and Paradox

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / July 9, 2005 /

FOUND: INSPIRATION AND BLISS Dick cannot accept that VALIS really exists, but yet he cannot reject it either. He is caught in a loop — if he accepts that VALIS exists, then he knows that this is a mad idea, so he must believe that he is mad, in which case VALIS does not really exist.…