Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000

Heresy XVII Machine Enlightenment

Exercise One

Try to specify exactly and in detail any human functions that you do not believe a computer could carry out even in principle.

Exercise Two

Try to specify exactly and in detail what humans mean when they use the word ’spirituality’.

Commentary 36

Paradoxically an exact and detailed specification of any function will, in principle, allow a computer to perform it.

Apologies for the trick question.

Only the unspecifiable remains, but let us not waste time with mystification; although we could write programs to produce plenty of it for fun and profit.

Any half sensible answer to the second exercise qualifies you as a fully enlightened master. Congratulations, you can now dress it up with the bullshit of your choice, and sell it.

We have an increasingly dynamic spiritual marketplace now due to an enhanced communications infrastructure.

Recycle your ontological waste products for hard cash!

Epistemological detritus fetches real money!

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