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 2  aliases:
 3    - Load and Run High-tech Paganism-Digital Polytheism | Spiral Nature Magazine
 4  citekey: Leary.Gullichsen
 5  tags:
 6    - bibnote
 7  ---
 8  
 9  > [!book] Bibliography
10  > Leary, Timothy, and Eric Gullichsen. n.d. “Load and Run High-Tech Paganism-Digital Polytheism | Spiral Nature Magazine.”  
11  
12  >[!meta]- Metadata  
13  > **FirstAuthor**:: Leary, Timothy  
14  > **Author**:: Gullichsen, Eric  
15  ~  
16  > **Title**:: Load and Run High-tech Paganism-Digital Polytheism | Spiral Nature Magazine  
17  > **Year**:: 1997 
18  > **Citekey**:: Leary.Gullichsen  
19  > **itemType**:: journalArticle  
20  > **Journal**:: **
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23  
24  ## Notes
25  
26  William Gibson, _Mona Lisa Overdrive_
27  
28  > Information is more basic than matter and energy.  
29  > Atoms, electrons, quarks consist of bits —  
30  > Binary units of information  
31  > Like those processed in computer software  
32  > And in the brain.  
33  > The behavior of these bits, and thus of the universe,  
34  > Is governed by a single programming rule.
35  > 
36  > Edward Fredkin
37  
38  - Digitized Newtonian universe
39  - "Digital information process"
40  	- evolutionary progress, continually running
41  - Not friendly when approached with a "Newtonian mind"
42  - [[1610.2a Leary defines cyberpunks as modern alchemists]]
43  	- electro-shaman
44  	- comparable to a renaissance alchemist, understanding the construction of magical appliances for viewing the future and communicating with distant and dead relatives
45  	- computer screens are magic mirrors that invoke alternate realities
46  	- code as "words of power"
47  	- mouse/stylus as a magic wand
48  	- code compilers and task assistants are "djinns"
49  		- "daemon"
50  	- DIY religion defined by yourself
51  
52  >[!quote]
53  >*Through science and technology we will meet the aliens, and they will be us.*
54  >— Norman Spinrad, ‘_The Neuromantics_‘
55  
56  - "Information-beings of the future may well be fluid." This fluidity allows us to flow with the next phase of human evolution into an "electronic entity" in the digital info-universe.
57  - Synthesize this with [[5650.1 Marshall McLuhan]]'s quote about information acceleration
58  
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60  >[!sticky]+ Notes Cited
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