The "shamanic" course may have been a blind for research in psychotropic drugs, including such exotica as ahuasca (yagé, harmaline), ibogaine, yohimbine, Telepathine and Vitamin K, as well as the more standard psychedelicatessen of the late…The first and still the most complete introduction to chaos — required reading — BUT with certain caveats. First: Gleick has no philosophical or poetic depth; he actually begins the book with a quote from John Updike! No mention of chaos my…
René Thom
mathematician · 3 mentions across 2 readings
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The excerpts provided do not contain references to René Thom. It appears there may be a mismatch between the person assigned and the course materials supplied. Without passages actually citing Thom's work, I cannot assess his role in "Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0" or how his ideas are being mobilized in the seminar's arguments about AI, cybernetics, and art.
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