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Serial Experiments Lain Thread https://t.co/oxV8FEEYgO
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"Science isn't merely about proving hypothesis. That's what I believed." https://t.co/94eLlu87jX
Hmmhttps://t.co/as4JuRbXuf https://t.co/OjoDirpf01
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Alice in Wonderland references in Lain. [1998]https://t.co/Cry90KjksD https://t.co/QVIr5TnrN8
Amazing what you can learn about someone by consuming a fictionalized philosophical work, drilling down into the memes that would have been influencing themselves at the time of their ideas developing, and building up alternate realities.https://t.co/gLSDYHWPNG
Boomers. Boomers everywhere.https://t.co/K7hIs4xYeF
Duvet"and all the fears you hold so dear, will turn to whispers in you ear. And you know what you don't say can't hurt you... [...]I am falling, I am fading. [...] a shame I can read your mind."https://t.co/UZGkfF1O3Shttps://t.co/0gvzL93rCq
White rabbit spotted. https://t.co/oMfgJaCjNP
"Virtuality Cyber 1000 CB (circa 1994)"https://t.co/ohaxruz7l5Neat. https://t.co/RChml4pQmb
What the fuck am I reading?"Cult members were deeply into cyberspace"https://t.co/q40ggKtLxe
Is that kid playing an action max clone?https://t.co/3btBODrcpIWould be wild if that is a light gun reference.https://t.co/w4nToyEiSd https://t.co/1PuhTR1oOj
"The result is maybe closer to the delirious meandering through images and philosophical themes that you find in 1970s acid nonsense like Alejandro Jodorowsky or in the I Ching-directed paranoid gnostic sci-fi of Philip K Dick. It has echoes closer to home as well, though." 1/2
"Many of the visual devices Lainemploys share something in common with other willfully brain-melting anime of the same general era, like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Revolutionary Girl Utena and Perfect Blue." 2/2https://t.co/zI77yPALYGThey don't seem to understand, lol.
I was reading that members of the creative team later went on to work with Masamune Shirow (GITS) on some other works (Ghost Hound)Also apparently Ryūtarō Nakamura is behind another one of my favorites:https://t.co/1B87G8kHCH
"I think the potential of what the internet is going to do to society —both good and bad— is unimaginable." [1999]I wonder if David Bowie watched anime?https://t.co/KFCtlPzlWH
Found an paper about early BBS systems in japan and china written under a lens of the evolution of centralized extractive social media platforms.https://t.co/VpDGXUDDGd
"Dialing into a BBS felt like whole-body teleportation. It was the intimacy of direct, computer-to-computer connection that did it. To call a BBS was to visit the private residence of a fellow computer fan electronically."https://t.co/NJ3qWVEXTE
Gosh, I wanna play with FidoNet. It seems even older than Gopher.https://t.co/LBGRQWOhwd
Hacking in progress.https://t.co/ld2ZmCULN4https://t.co/zmXDGTxbRi https://t.co/K6mmVjGX6R
Cogs in the machine god. https://t.co/y3E455VbZc
"Capgras syndrome was prevalent across a broad spectrum of first-episode psychotic disorders, most often in acute psychoses of rapid onset."https://t.co/vlkXYNFUiy https://t.co/qK1bIG6TGu
"We also found significant patient deficits in P300 amplitude. These were evident across all emotional valences, but were especially notable for the negative emotions."https://t.co/Ix36dr336VThe world is full of scary faces that I do not understand.
"Facial emotion perception is significantly affected in autism spectrum [...] typical volunteers to attribute negative valence to non-emotional faces." 🎭🤔🤪😂😏😎https://t.co/nArDPfnPPk
Apophänie> The term was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness".https://t.co/MmAJJthwhR
As I was reading that, the cracks began to show."(Begin to show)(Begin to show)(Begin to show)(Begin to show)(Begin to show)(Begin to show)(Begin to show)"🎶https://t.co/z8ymuYBJivhttps://t.co/1BTkSRrMUN
@SteveStuWill @JMSThiessen I'm thinking that Apophenia is a form of synethesia, at least from my self experiments.I think something similar to this is happening in my brain https://t.co/qYwNnTIDBt but as a side effect of Acute Aphasia from Multiple Sclerosis's imapct on brain matter.
When you swing to hard for so long that the cracks begin to show.https://t.co/0knEoSWUhZ https://t.co/qsJbn9E6WE
Cracked pots paved with gold.https://t.co/DRt8WIyqPT
Mashuphttps://t.co/h4dcN8lv2p
Aphasia, but not of words; of entire concepts.https://t.co/DJdpe5Rfet
Eating concepts, shitting ideas.https://t.co/5G7altyQL0
Becoming very online, like one does.https://t.co/ek0g4Y0WrF https://t.co/96UeilvVta
Fun fact:"Key The metal Idol" came out a number of years before Serial Experiments Lain and is even less well known as an influence in this space.You can see in intro sequences a reference to clockwork mechanisms. That seems a shared influence to GITS2https://t.co/IT7AeY57YP
Oh no."When we impose patterns or relationships on otherwise unrelated things, we call it apophenia. When we create these connections online, we call it the internet"https://t.co/HcpBuNAWGThttps://t.co/qPcNELkoXi
"Software is eating humanity."https://t.co/j6GVXRTp72https://t.co/g4aMhQWkmU
To recreate you, perfectly.https://t.co/9DDCNd6ymI
This character is cracked and the destroyed parts of her body are replaced with a gold/platinum amalgam.https://t.co/YCRBgpdfKE
"beautiful visualization and reminder of just how much Phos has changed and, especially when put in conjunction with the next meaning (the spirits of the dead, an incarnation of the soul, the immortal soul), drives home exactly what has caused this change"https://t.co/iSAF5vnAMw
I see patterns."Those older hard drives do contain platinum. Why? Because their spinning disks and (in some cases other internal parts) have been plated with small quantities of platinum to protect the drives from becoming magnetized and losing data."https://t.co/Qy0J4bB9Iv
Memories stored.https://t.co/S0ChSnW7FJ
The metaphor in Land of the Lustrous about how their memories are stored in crystal formations distributed thru bodies is really fascinating to me.I often wonder if we can simulate the human experience with 90% less brain cells than we otherwise assume.https://t.co/GvCOXITsBu
Storied.Informorphic beings perpetuated via electromophic substrata.https://t.co/EvnWQRkXmd
Cultural wisdom as compression.Cultural wisdom as memoization.That which dies and is reborn to perpetuate itself across time and space.https://t.co/MRzSh4kkef
Ghosting (Television)https://t.co/rPPEGPzBAI"burn-in, image burn-in, or ghost image, colloquially known as screen burn or ghosting, is a discoloration of areas on an electronic display such as a CRT display or an old computer" https://t.co/QiaVBcKAYnhttps://t.co/gnk4ORd32K
You mean it's all just a ghost in the machine? 👽Always has been. 🔫https://t.co/zYS8dkLWIt https://t.co/EMHjWsuXYz
Looking for my ghost.https://t.co/TfP8LXs6jz https://t.co/L4af4zhL6u
"when I was with Timothy when hewent on the web for the first time...he said 'this is acid'. that this is as powerful as acid.and it's going to be more powerfulbecause people don't need to ingest it in order to trip"https://t.co/5rSYthqRxL
Layer 11 Dongle"information is being considered not just a valuable commodity from a practical point of view, but something that generates an almost sexual thrill, something that we lust after and enjoy hunting because it is special and gives us power."https://t.co/uHoiaa5SQt https://t.co/3BFAFOs6Il
Software? https://t.co/6uBWKQlmAx https://t.co/oY40Bafmd9
Craphttps://t.co/xPN5Eh03En https://t.co/lCsxETDcwQ
"Yet Artificial Life is not only about the construction and simulation of living systems, whether artificial or natural; an impressive engineering effort is geared towards the construction of adaptive autonomous robots."https://t.co/PAfRwchJt8https://t.co/ooewdMkY4R https://t.co/AeUkPZD9A6
"There is no real me. I guess that's it. I only exist inside those people aware of my existence."https://t.co/vZLnA78C7h https://t.co/t3SGFQxzK8
Sure is noisy in here.https://t.co/wEiwNmnYtz
Did you know that most cheap clocks use the mains hum as a way to keep time?https://t.co/IdwTWN6BbMYour daily rhythms controlled by the power grid.Deep Metaphor this.
When you start to see patterns that don't exist, but feel real.Confabulating memories and merging ideas."Humanity has long suspected a correlation between creativity and mental illness."https://t.co/ovQlls9sHihttps://t.co/yhxWCMDcRo
"Traditional MEG technology uses electromagnetic sensors that are fixed in a bulky system, which sits above a person’s head. A new generation of lightweight MEG sensors, 3-millimeter cubes, can be placed anywhere on the scalp." <3https://t.co/98OGf9VsQF
Whispering to myself that I might be broken, so that the other part of the self will come to the conclusion on it's own.https://t.co/Q8MWK9xm1d
The truth is often an illusion of familiarity.Being aware of this bias can be useful.https://t.co/t9qd3zLbLphttps://t.co/AcldCtb6zs
TBH, if you know enough about technology trends, psychology, and history of the internet, Lain is boring. https://t.co/8whJfAgqyc
It's Jean Baudrillard's stuff thru a lens of Deleuze and Guattari.>writings are "theory-fictions", a genre created by the philosopher Jean Baudrillard. A cofounder of the 1990s collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU)https://t.co/whnDOoX8V2https://t.co/kW68wIzxo7
All the people trying to meme Land into watching Lain?His response should be: https://t.co/LiWr5chf4f
My twitter Avi is from an anime from a guy who worked on Sailor Moon.https://t.co/zuRN8ZaITfThis is what happens in my head: https://t.co/IeXoNGQPSdhttps://t.co/vBpbXG5HKp
My twitter avatar is a cyborg bear brought back from the dead, set in a universe of lesbian bears trying to tear down the boundaries of their reality as symbolized by a metaphor about a wall between bears and non bear domains.The bears eat people... metaphorically speaking. https://t.co/Oe8LLrRtde
"Burn like a slaveChurn like a cogWe are caged in simulationsAlgorithms evolvePush us aside and render us obsolete" 🎶https://t.co/gPmuSpLW2ihttps://t.co/GyqnXGpBFJ
I should watch Perfect Blue.https://t.co/knJmdCp5gM
"a strategy for propagating information forward through time […] “individuality is about temporal uncertainty reduction.” Replication here emerges as just one of many strategies for individuals to order information in their future"https://t.co/STBRhVMcv8https://t.co/wsjiZWwGbx
People keep comparing my ideas to this Nick Land character.Turns out he's been my mimetic rival since before I had twitter. I found someone referencing his content in my facebook export in reference to an idea I had back in 2005ish.Or maybe I'm his doppelganger? Who knows.
We are stuck in a strange attractor, machinations too big for any one brain to see.https://t.co/aJZOMjDa6D
Layers of irony + expanding brain crossover meme suggesting both zizeck & land paled in comparison to Heaven's Gate3 years ago."M͋͌̅̌̕r̵͊.̾ ͛Z͡ï̐͂͏zͮͯeͪ̓͟k'̍ͦ̽͆̉̌̂s̾̅ ＷＩＬＤ ＲＩＤＥ"https://t.co/nWeeNaiIrXI hate that I understand all of this.https://t.co/kW68wIzxo7 https://t.co/oPRmKm2lgY
Lain, as far as I can tell, is quite literally a version of Land's "Hyperstition" effect.The 'Let's all love lain' cult is a memetic spin off of Heaven's Gate spread thru cyberspace on the back of an anime. https://t.co/G33uQGOrNy
It's interesting that Hyperstition was coined at roughtly the same time as when Lain was released.https://t.co/TTw2t5YursMakes me wonder if Lain's creator read anything on by Deleuze
"to explore, through [...] philosophies of Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between narrative and extra-narrative elements in anime such as Revolutionary Girl Utena, Serial Experiments Lain and Puella Magi Madoka Magica"https://t.co/2MbeDfqiuu
"everyone irredeemably captured by the romance of artificial intelligence can point to the fictional works that planted the seed and make it impossible to let go. [...] two that got me were serial experiments lain and the metamorphosis of prime intellect" https://t.co/2za2EQoz1s
*looks up metamorphosis*Does that electronic circuit actually do anything interesting?https://t.co/ONJEbMcNR4#TMMTO "software alchemist"https://t.co/gsNbQ64PNy https://t.co/1ncbQQ2qbe
Something I said while tipsy."I let myself be open to the world, so that I might be an instrument of it. A force of nature."https://t.co/43scNqW8Exhttps://t.co/a4isLVZkQY
Can someone explain to me why people keep referring to Nick Land as a girl? Is that some kind of swarm level shame mechanism because of his sayings on how we all become like ants in an ant colony?https://t.co/zpy1qm0oV5
I like how people are calling him a boomer. It has some second level resonance with a tangential series about a race of hivemind cyborgs trying to break free.https://t.co/1xcflI7iK0
Rewatching the original Bubblegum Crisis."Boomers are synthetic life forms produced by the Genom Corporation. Typically, they are called Voomers (VOodoo Organic Metal Extension Resource), and referred to as Boomers if they go wild and start killing"https://t.co/hAmxrSmigv
"In the past few years, since VR tech has started to take off, I’ve discovered a strange commonality between DXM and Virtual Reality." https://t.co/ssjAW99wpWhttps://t.co/hG0JGbXmTt https://t.co/9hMvvC9jKq
Lain is a simulation living in your head.https://t.co/OA0UVDt8Az https://t.co/NCWpbAdNhx
"I think we're going to very soon start to build models, predictive models of people, that are so accurate. And then nobody will accept the existence of free will anymore. I'm sorry people who thought... this really upsets some people..." https://t.co/GxkkakpWcq
This really upsets some people.https://t.co/xo76TuGG5D
The world is not as it seams ripped apart of me is simulated in a constructed GPT3 of generated tweets are not of the universe I belong to.https://t.co/OD2vG2L4HB
VHS aesthetic as memetic contagion.Simulacra and Simulation as nostalgia treadmill.https://t.co/osE34RD8jY
A resurgence.Present Day, Present Time.https://t.co/N4ZTkppHoo https://t.co/kfq3oL1aMB
Was trying to find how Thiel would have been influenced by ideas stemming from Land.Secondary contagion via Hoffman's interest in Philosophy?"intellectual curiosity -- he gave me books on the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and DVDs of Japanese anime"https://t.co/Ee3nhFXuru
I wonder if Hoffman is a fan of the Isekai genre.Thinking of him watching Sword Art Online as inspiration for investments into a VR focused social network. https://t.co/RBfSLTG014
I wonder where he picked up that whole "work on a problem before bed" trick.https://t.co/T3sJMAZFIPIt's amazing how many philosophers are good at finding intuition pumps and other tools for thinking.https://t.co/CMKANLtcjf
Have you tried ignoring the problem for a little while and then upregulating what Karl Fristron describes as "Free energy" so Freuds 'wish fullfilment' mechanisms embedded in dreams create epiphanies, approximating the Ancient Greek ritual of incubation? https://t.co/FHVdOsCMIX
I asked my GF what the first isekai was.She said she owned it on VHS.https://t.co/o6mrIHU8Bd
She started making jokes about trucks.Long story short, we ended up watching a review of "The Ride-On King" and I am not sure how I feel about anime anymore. https://t.co/gYf1x3bJnz
Thinking a lot about how so many divination tools seeded into 1990's American culture would be an effective venue to scry for overlooked 'tools for thought'.https://t.co/rVAStmvPUs
Why does my brain do this?"the cult-based Subway Sarin Incident Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway gas-attack and resulting police actions and coverups."https://t.co/TfoMuSwFsbhttps://t.co/PIG4Q3hG4o
I watched GITS Laughing Man OVA earlier today, and for some reason the bloop idea lit up gold. And now I found a direct influence between aspects of the show and a cult while trying to highlight the power of internet to create cult-like reality tunnels.https://t.co/rDCtIjOUBp
The original GITS was released, 18 November 1995It plays with a lot of concepts related to evolution and merging with AI.SAC (2002) literally has Motoko dying and being reborn after being in contact w/ a hacker who imbues information into her. What.https://t.co/ShTbQPjOvL
"Noone can know what that is, you know.We have no need for programmed dreams.Brilliant scientists and childrenhave the same gleam in their eyes.Strange, isn't it?"https://t.co/juFb8QELmwhttps://t.co/l8yvFybLUh
"When I wrote Thirty Years Ago: The Best Anime of 1987, there was no question that I would need to mention Bubblegum Crisis first, since it was the most popular among American fans [...] the most obvious elements lifted wholesale from Blade Runner"https://t.co/Z2QasrUsNQ
Boomers everywhere.https://t.co/1BkxG2XFgC
Imagine being influenced indirectly by anime from year you were born?"For most of the 1990s, Syfy showed anime films, although they had to be edited [...] The channel's longest running animation block, referred to as Saturday Animehttps://t.co/YeU03LXHFr
"Keep it simple and move fast when conceiving strategies and making decisions"Does @bencasnocha miss the point of the speed accuracy tradeoff being described as strategic balances by Reid? Buried the lead imo.https://t.co/JLxkzm84RHhttps://t.co/vcNdFpDxVV
I wonder what anime Reid Hoffman would recommend to learn about risk appetite.https://t.co/DJEei6S9QA
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”― Sun Tzu
"longing for a world of peace he was the first to discover that peace comes with understanding.so he created a power that would aid in that understanding he so longed for."https://t.co/pzyFy9xStc
Exformation: when you trust a small proportion of your audience will follow the white rabbit of curiosity, so you can leave out necessary context.Laughing at a pun in subtext of ideas I never spoke, but implied. The shared experience of the Wired.😇https://t.co/8LVsLIkq7i https://t.co/8SS7TNFKrl
Have you ever laughed at a future joke that only existed in someone's head whom you've never met?I like watching the metaprogramming play out in my simulation of you laughing at a pun I set up on May 16 2021.Tired: where(is the real me)?Wired: when.https://t.co/8nyQi6SUSJ
"if you want a deliberately non-linear experience, use these keywords to jump from node to node"https://t.co/gp5cvNS2CF
The lain video game is like my twitter mind palace.A web of ideas spread thru space and time.https://t.co/UcdfNLtUfH
I found it by remembering that I wanted to save time in a bottle, like an external memory for causative non-linear reality.So... my idea must be encoded as keyword in my spotify playlist to remember time.Ah yes... Time is on my side.https://t.co/k0aOPvzcgx https://t.co/RjfyoDInEL
Bits and pieces of my mind spread across the net.I store ideas in my mental mazes as they come to me.Out of order. Non-Linear. But not deliberate.https://t.co/ubhfAEB9Fy
I remembered the other day how, as a child, I had emotion-color synethesia that went away with puberty.I am starting to see words in colors again.My entire twitter web lighting up like christmas lights. Using the color tones from diablo 2's rare items to highlight excitement. https://t.co/13LOqBc597
Your desire for linear narratives are what limits your thinking. The world is far too complex to tell one story. Think of the paths not taken.https://t.co/oJDTMgRxwH
Because I'm researching 'marginal glosses' and the history of storytelling as collaborative meaning making, I found a concept called "Matryoshka Stories" which is perhaps adjacent to 'Frame stories' and Shandified narratives. https://t.co/CZv5RzstSR