Comments on: Surviving a Total Perspective Vortex

Question: Surviving a Total Perspective Vortex

0bvious — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:39:35 -0800

I'm on the hunt for sites and/or blogs about big ideas... Who wants to join me?

I am interested in the nature of the human, the self, consciousness, space-time and infinity, the future, cultural evolution, the emergence and destruction of civilisation, physics, biology, technology, science fiction, this self perceiving universe, the narrative, the protagonist, belief, faith and the Gods, mathematics, language, truth, semiotics, theory of mind, theory of relativity, philosophy, transhumanism, the base of humour, of love, of art, of literature, chemistry, the stars and how they shine, justice, anger, naivety, pop-culture, culture shock, poetry, evolution, devolution, darwinism vs subjectivity, how to and how not to, how it is, how it could have been, perspectives of 'the idea', how the perspective shifts, surviving a total perspective vortex....

I want to find people who find these things interesting too, I want them to come over and chat liberally with me, with my like-minded associates, with other web-portal psychonauts.

Apart from Metafilter where do you get your intellectual, mind exploding fix? Where should I begin my search for new minds to meld with?

By: leafwoman

leafwoman — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:58:08 -0800

http://longnow.org/

By: BishopsLoveScifi

BishopsLoveScifi — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:03:36 -0800

Edge sounds quite like the sort of discourse you seem to be looking for.

The drawback is that it's not really set up as a place for the end-browser to discuss with like minded others, rather - it's more a place where people who've written books have these discussions, and you get to read them. Still pretty interesting though.

By: Gyan

Gyan — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:04:21 -0800

Edge.

By: Herr Fahrstuhl

Herr Fahrstuhl — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:43:30 -0800

Edge sounds interesting indeed. But they don't have an rss feed, do they?

By: 0bvious

0bvious — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:04:02 -0800

Edge is great, but not very grass roots.

I want to find ideas and interact with the minds who give birth to them.

By: convex

convex — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:13:43 -0800

Maybe you should try joining one of these high IQ societies, there are plenty of people there that have such interests and have private forums to talk about it.
Try Mega foundation, Glia society, Triple Nine society, Prometheus, etc... Also Thothica have their own chat client and private forum to chat with people about such interests.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:16:35 -0800

I'm confused 0bvious. Is that your site that you just linked to (I ask because it's in your profile) or one that you like and want to find one similar to? Are you trying to find sites to go to in order to find people to come to your site? If so, that's sort of a different question than other sites to go to and read.

I've always liked the sustainability big ideas over at WorldChanging, as one example.

By: shivohum

shivohum — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:33:06 -0800

I think the Straight Dope forums have a lot of good discussion, but posting privileges are by-subscription-only (though you can browse for free and they have a 30-day free trial period).

By: rmm

rmm — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:53:36 -0800

That's quite the laundry list of interests you have there. We share quite a few :) It's a shame you're not in the Bay Area - the Future Salon would be right up your alley. It's part of the Accelerating Change Foundation and always has interesting talks.

Maybe the Integral Thought folks might be up your ally (link is to Wikipedia page). Not an endorsement, but just a suggestion - I can't quite tell if they're new age cranks or not :). There are no shortage of excellent web sites devoted to individual topics in your list, but no Big Web site to link them all. I'm working on a list of similiar futurist type web sites, which I might post one day if it gets done - I'd like to transform it into a wiki so others can contribute.

By: paulsc

paulsc — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:06:11 -0800

The Becker-Posner Blog tries to be a public issues debate, and still takes public comments.

By: salvia

salvia — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:57:13 -0800

Not sure if this meets all your criteria, but the Mind Hacks blog links a lot of stuff about neuropsychology, "the self, consciousness..." I started to really like it once I realized it occasionally alludes to Philip K. Dick.

By: danb

danb — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:03:46 -0800

I hear Barbelith is good for some of this stuff, but I haven't been around there much.

By: brianogilvie

brianogilvie — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:59:03 -0800

Check out Arts & Letters Daily and SciTech Daily for a MeFi-style set of links to 3-5 new online pieces every day (some of them from print publications like the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books). I also like Butterflies & Wheels, which has a skeptical edge, though sometimes it's rather blunt (when it comes to philosophy and literary criticism, for instance, the authors sometimes throw out the baby with the bathwater).

By: hortense

hortense — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:39:46 -0800

Design science-Geometry of meaning

By: 0bvious

0bvious — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:28:35 -0800

I am looking for input for myself, but yes, I would also like to recruit like minded folk for my new web-forum.

Drop in sometime

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:45:45 -0800

the loom is good.

By: IndigoSkye

IndigoSkye — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:54:50 -0800

How To Save The World. Dave Pollard is either a genius or a madman. Either way he fortells the end of civilization.