a compendium of essential reading
(feel free to skip the essay and head right to the juicy links)
It is of absolutely fundamental importance for the vast majority of the human species to realize our common humanity. It is not an exaggeration to say that our lives depend on it. As technology continues to give each of us more power, and the corresponding effect that we have on others persons and the world expands, the question of what we choose to do with our freedom will decide more than just the fate of our species, but the biosphere as a whole. Since the Cold War era, it has been within the capability of our species to destroy itself and take most of the planet with us. And we are currently on a path of self-destruction being led by the greatest power on Earth that has been hijacked by elite interests that have succeeded in privatizing profits and externalizing costs at an unfathomable scale.
Of fundamental importance to this project is the virtually total relinguishment of any claims to absolute truth or knowledge. Such claims are false relics from an evolutionary history that valued greater cohesion and solidarity in groups of humans competing with other groups of humans for resources for themselves and their progeny. Religious belief is completely natural, and spirituality is woven into the fabric of what it can mean to be human. However religious or ideological claims that arrogate a monopoly on the truth by definition create divisions between in-groups and out-groups. The in-group must include the entire species as a minimum; history has shown us strife as an alternative and that strife will pale in comparison to the fate that awaits us if we fail to recognize the humanity in each person unconditionally.
The nature of knowledge is fundamentally tentative even with the broadest consensus of rational thought based on evidence, assertions to knowledge beyond that which cannot be verified or evidentially supported must be recognized as speculation, and as such provide no grounds from which to dehumanize or murder another human being. The spread of memes/ideas by force is a sign of intellectual weakness. Instead we must recognize that formal systems have been mathematically proven to be incapable of completion, and begin to come to grips with beginning to form a world that truly brings the limitations of knowledge to its core. No perfect being exists, every single one of us makes mistakes, and therefore there is nothing more dangerous to approaching the truth than the suppression of dissent.
Corporations are not humans, and must be stripped of all human rights. The granting of human rights to a super-human psychopathic artificial intelligence severely diminishes, if not drowns out, the actual human rights of the living and breathing human creatures inhabiting the planet. The ravaging of the peoples and places of the planet is directly related to the artificial maintenance of the economic sphere as the highest power.
People and land and natural resources are not commodities, we have not been created for the market. The market economy has never been as pristine as economic conceptions would indicate. Economics cannot be meaningfully discussed without addressing its relation to socio-political life. The American Dream is a lie. Despite the widespread belief in the United States that each of us is just around the corner from being rich, this nation has markedly less actual social mobility than European countries like Germany, Denmark, or Norway. The American Dream has been built on the backs of slave labor, dependent on continued preservation of desperation to keep wages down and people willing to work for next to nothing, and it is already being replaced by the European Dream. We are in the "jaws of death," productivity continues to rise and real wages continue to fall. This is not an aspect of China's that we want to be emulating. The two party stranglehold of political power has for all intents and purposes successfully curtailed real democratic change.
Our species is in a race with itself the stakes of which have truly never been higher. If current trends continue a middle ground will grow less feasible, and we will be dependent on the fulfillment of the singularity hypothesis to avoid one apocalyptic scenario for the possibility of several other technologically oriented apocalyptic scenarios. Be that as it may, a potential apocalypse is better than a certain one. But there are very serious problems with letting a small elite agenda maintain control in the transition to the trans- and post-human future. Just as technology gives everyone more power as it reaches everyone, it gives a disproportionate amount of power, at least temporarily, to those who wield new technologies first. If technological development is truly on an exponential curve, the point will inevitably come in a caste society that those in power will achieve first the technological capability to hold the rest of humanity at their whim. The technological issues are really a known, unknown unknown. As we approach the singularity the number of black swan events will approach infinity. For all I know super-human intelligence will save humanity. Whether immanently or externally, by augmented human or by robotic AI, we cannot predict, and any combination of things seems within the realm of possibility
First we have to survive the current headlong rush collective suicide via the destruction of the biosphere's life support systems. In both cases (the current global crisis and the singularity), it seems the likelihood of survival would increase if power became as decentralized and robust as possible without diminishing the possibility for swift, practical, and unified action; the only form of governance that I could imagine fulfilling this seemingly impossible role would be something along the lines of a wiki style government (or wikigovernment), made possible for the first time by technological advances.
I apologize to everyone for the lack of organization.
http://progressive.atl.playstream.com/nakfi/progressive/Sackler/sackler_12_07_07/jeremy_jackson/jeremy_jackson.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7696197.stm
http://www.cdnn.info/news/article/a071104.html
http://www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-over-25000-children-died-around-the-world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7361539.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to-save-mankind.html?full=true
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/may/22/theobserver.technology
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_technology_will_transform_us.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8832143373632003914&ei=yg4ESsSMFpm2qAOyjPhV&q=douglas+hofstadter&client=firefox-a
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=memelist.html%3Fm%3D1
http://mustangdaily.net/why-im-a-scientist-and-a-skeptic/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html
http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_1/8_1.shtml
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.html
http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/conscious/conscious2.html
http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/23/nicholas-taleb-innovation-tech-cz_07rev_nt_0524taleb.html
http://www.gapminder.org/
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/apr/10-metamaterial-revolution-new-science-making-anything-disappear/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
http://www.socyberty.com/Philosophy/The-Virtue-We-Need.676517
http://www.socyberty.com/Philosophy/On-Nietzsches-The-Madman.692255
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:_b3j3IY8IIEJ:au.geocities.com/neil_levy/Documents/articles/consciousness_MR.pdf+http://au.geocities.com/neil_levy/Documents/articles/consciousness_MR.pdf&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FreemanWWW/manuscripts/IF8/99.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/w_k_clifford/ethics_of_belief.html
http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html
http://www.socyberty.com/Philosophy/A-Critical-Examination-of-Cliffords-The-Ethics-of-Belief.696095
http://www.socyberty.com/Religion/Kierkegaard-the-Fool.677271
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4843&page=0
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/05/cato-hypocrisy.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502092019.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/290107rockefellergoal.htm
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a0bc4628-2921-11de-bc5e-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=ae1104cc-f82e-11dd-aae8-000077b07658.html
http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/dawkins3.htm
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai/
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
http://www.truthout.org/article/chalmers-johnson-intellectual-fallacies-war-terror
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2009/04/irony-1-billionaire-subsidized.html
http://www.truthout.org/article/naomi-klein-the-shock-doctrine
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/07/oversight/index.html
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/crispinmiller
http://www.borgenproject.org/Cost_of_Ending_Poverty.html
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/09/2389
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/04/happy-tax-day-richest-one-percent
http://mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=184
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=4773590301316220374&ei=WlHpSfriMYOOwgOMxJndAw&q=thunderbolts+of+the+gods&hl=en&dur=3
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle
http://bostonreview.net/BR22.5/okin.html
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_reboot?currentPage=all
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html
http://www.slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming/archives/001324.html
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/12/24/071224crat_atlarge_crain
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice/1
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html
http://www.truthout.org/article/bob-herbert-good-jobs-are-where-money-is
http://www.masternewmedia.org/bye-bye-e-learning-emergent-learning-paradigm-more-important-than-digital-delivery-tools/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jan/14/kenya.world
http://www.bhcinvestment.com/2008/02/george-soros-worst-market-crisis-in-60.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012401831.html
http://www.zeek.net/711jay/
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis-love.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.500-nanoplumbing-more-than-just-a-pipe-dream.html?full=true
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.500-nanoplumbing-more-than-just-a-pipe-dream.html?full=true
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/unapologetic.html
http://quantumphysics.tribe.net/thread/7c1b85e4-b6f8-4d41-9a51-d236144e27aa
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/05/building-gods.html
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2009/01/status-anxiety-alain-de-botton.html
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6278
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/10-sciences-alternative-to-an-intelligent-creator/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
http://www.truthout.org/121008R
http://www.reason.com/news/show/127549.html
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/28/10645
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/07/ghost-in-your-genes.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14520-us-boasts-of-laser-weapons-plausible-deniability.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
http://www.physorg.com/news137679868.html
http://www.physorg.com/news137863959.html
http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd
http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/beyond-belief-candles-in-the-dark/jonathan-haidt-1
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07232008.html
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=an+unreasonable+man&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1842185238948346433&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Iraq%27s+Missing+Billions&emb=0&aq=f#
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/08/power-of-nightmares.html
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/11/adam-curtis-living-dead.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/11/dangerous-knowledge.html
http://gizmodo.com/5077240/us-army-to-push-x+files-tech-development-invade-world-of-warcraft
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_1998_Dec/ai_53281666/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/usforeignpolicy.useconomicgrowth
http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2008-10-30_058_americas_slow_motion_fascist_coup.mp3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6078589535743610981&hl=en
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/opinion/14herbert.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/gandhi-pills-ps/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html
http://www.mindpowernews.com/5Psychological.htm
http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0151
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-economist-has-no-clothes
http://torturingdemocracy.org/
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810037
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/10/guns-germs-and-steel.html
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/packs-of-robots-will-hunt-down.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=geoengineering-how-to-cool-earth
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html
http://www.truthout.org/103108R
http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3246&Itemid=243
http://www.integralscience.org/ConsciousQM.html
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Multiple_drafts_model
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7216/full/4551038a.html (paid membership required)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3353407/Scientist-develops-programme-to-understand-alien-languages.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15030-atlas-of-hidden-water-may-avert-future-conflict.html
http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/arundhati-roy-come-september/
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/10/evidence_of_a_g.php
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/11/shamans-of-amazon.html
http://www.hoboes.com/FireBlade/Editorials/Legalize/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/russell.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/06/artificialintelligenceai-engineering
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7740484.stm
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21736/
http://www.physorg.com/news148885841.html
http://www.physorg.com/news148840268.html
http://www.physorg.com/news149345120.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2008/12/23/david_brin_google/index.html
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2009/01/world-according-to-monsanto.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16477-global-warming-could-suffocate-the-sea.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.900-dark-flow-proof-of-another-universe.html?full=true&print=true
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB123396545910358867.html?mod=rss_barrons_interview&page=1
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/03/yoo/index.html
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2009/03/can-we-make-star-on-earth.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312140844.htm
http://spacecollective.org/
http://spacecollective.org/Wildcat/4575/PinYin-Shi-Shi-Zao-Ying-Xiong-part-3-
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126951.800-mathematics-the-only-true-universal-language.html?full=true
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/may/22/theobserver.technology
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/index.html
http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZJYNyvuZpcwC&pg=PA138&dq=nagel+moral+luck
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110450.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101334645&sc=emaf
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5887
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2009/04/laughing-at-laffer.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/apr/02-are-smart-drugs-the-answer-to-bad-moods-and-bad-economy/article_view?b_start%3Aint=0&-C
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~slocks/feedback/amanyahu.html
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/11/719134/-Paine-Was-a-Socialistk
two books i appreciated and realized i want to share them more. i highly recommend the intro's available below.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xHy8oKa4RikC&printsec=frontcover&dq=polanyi#PPR16,M1
http://books.google.com/books?id=1OYghwiKjP0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=an+ordinary+persons+guide+to+empire#PPP1,M1
Since I was recommending so many things already I thought I'd add a few books to the list.
The Varieties of Scientific Experience - Carl Sagan
Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Taleb
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity - Roy Rappaport
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
The Feeling of What Happens - Antonio Damasio
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Paul Kennedy
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
Philosophy in the Flesh - Mark Johnson & George Lakoff
The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
Atheism: A Reader - edited by S.T. Joshi
It is of absolutely fundamental importance for the vast majority of the human species to realize our common humanity. It is not an exaggeration to say that our lives depend on it. As technology continues to give each of us more power, and the corresponding effect that we have on others persons and the world expands, the question of what we choose to do with our freedom will decide more than just the fate of our species, but the biosphere as a whole. Since the Cold War era, it has been within the capability of our species to destroy itself and take most of the planet with us. And we are currently on a path of self-destruction being led by the greatest power on Earth that has been hijacked by elite interests that have succeeded in privatizing profits and externalizing costs at an unfathomable scale.
Of fundamental importance to this project is the virtually total relinguishment of any claims to absolute truth or knowledge. Such claims are false relics from an evolutionary history that valued greater cohesion and solidarity in groups of humans competing with other groups of humans for resources for themselves and their progeny. Religious belief is completely natural, and spirituality is woven into the fabric of what it can mean to be human. However religious or ideological claims that arrogate a monopoly on the truth by definition create divisions between in-groups and out-groups. The in-group must include the entire species as a minimum; history has shown us strife as an alternative and that strife will pale in comparison to the fate that awaits us if we fail to recognize the humanity in each person unconditionally.
The nature of knowledge is fundamentally tentative even with the broadest consensus of rational thought based on evidence, assertions to knowledge beyond that which cannot be verified or evidentially supported must be recognized as speculation, and as such provide no grounds from which to dehumanize or murder another human being. The spread of memes/ideas by force is a sign of intellectual weakness. Instead we must recognize that formal systems have been mathematically proven to be incapable of completion, and begin to come to grips with beginning to form a world that truly brings the limitations of knowledge to its core. No perfect being exists, every single one of us makes mistakes, and therefore there is nothing more dangerous to approaching the truth than the suppression of dissent.
Corporations are not humans, and must be stripped of all human rights. The granting of human rights to a super-human psychopathic artificial intelligence severely diminishes, if not drowns out, the actual human rights of the living and breathing human creatures inhabiting the planet. The ravaging of the peoples and places of the planet is directly related to the artificial maintenance of the economic sphere as the highest power.
People and land and natural resources are not commodities, we have not been created for the market. The market economy has never been as pristine as economic conceptions would indicate. Economics cannot be meaningfully discussed without addressing its relation to socio-political life. The American Dream is a lie. Despite the widespread belief in the United States that each of us is just around the corner from being rich, this nation has markedly less actual social mobility than European countries like Germany, Denmark, or Norway. The American Dream has been built on the backs of slave labor, dependent on continued preservation of desperation to keep wages down and people willing to work for next to nothing, and it is already being replaced by the European Dream. We are in the "jaws of death," productivity continues to rise and real wages continue to fall. This is not an aspect of China's that we want to be emulating. The two party stranglehold of political power has for all intents and purposes successfully curtailed real democratic change.
Our species is in a race with itself the stakes of which have truly never been higher. If current trends continue a middle ground will grow less feasible, and we will be dependent on the fulfillment of the singularity hypothesis to avoid one apocalyptic scenario for the possibility of several other technologically oriented apocalyptic scenarios. Be that as it may, a potential apocalypse is better than a certain one. But there are very serious problems with letting a small elite agenda maintain control in the transition to the trans- and post-human future. Just as technology gives everyone more power as it reaches everyone, it gives a disproportionate amount of power, at least temporarily, to those who wield new technologies first. If technological development is truly on an exponential curve, the point will inevitably come in a caste society that those in power will achieve first the technological capability to hold the rest of humanity at their whim. The technological issues are really a known, unknown unknown. As we approach the singularity the number of black swan events will approach infinity. For all I know super-human intelligence will save humanity. Whether immanently or externally, by augmented human or by robotic AI, we cannot predict, and any combination of things seems within the realm of possibility
First we have to survive the current headlong rush collective suicide via the destruction of the biosphere's life support systems. In both cases (the current global crisis and the singularity), it seems the likelihood of survival would increase if power became as decentralized and robust as possible without diminishing the possibility for swift, practical, and unified action; the only form of governance that I could imagine fulfilling this seemingly impossible role would be something along the lines of a wiki style government (or wikigovernment), made possible for the first time by technological advances.
I apologize to everyone for the lack of organization.
http://progressive.atl.playstream.com/nakfi/progressive/Sackler/sackler_12_07_07/jeremy_jackson/jeremy_jackson.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7696197.stm
http://www.cdnn.info/news/article/a071104.html
http://www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-over-25000-children-died-around-the-world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7361539.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to-save-mankind.html?full=true
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/may/22/theobserver.technology
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_technology_will_transform_us.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8832143373632003914&ei=yg4ESsSMFpm2qAOyjPhV&q=douglas+hofstadter&client=firefox-a
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=memelist.html%3Fm%3D1
http://mustangdaily.net/why-im-a-scientist-and-a-skeptic/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html
http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_1/8_1.shtml
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.html
http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/conscious/conscious2.html
http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/23/nicholas-taleb-innovation-tech-cz_07rev_nt_0524taleb.html
http://www.gapminder.org/
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/apr/10-metamaterial-revolution-new-science-making-anything-disappear/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
http://www.socyberty.com/Philosophy/The-Virtue-We-Need.676517
http://www.socyberty.com/Philosophy/On-Nietzsches-The-Madman.692255
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:_b3j3IY8IIEJ:au.geocities.com/neil_levy/Documents/articles/consciousness_MR.pdf+http://au.geocities.com/neil_levy/Documents/articles/consciousness_MR.pdf&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FreemanWWW/manuscripts/IF8/99.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/w_k_clifford/ethics_of_belief.html
http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html
http://www.socyberty.com/Philosophy/A-Critical-Examination-of-Cliffords-The-Ethics-of-Belief.696095
http://www.socyberty.com/Religion/Kierkegaard-the-Fool.677271
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4843&page=0
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/05/cato-hypocrisy.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502092019.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/290107rockefellergoal.htm
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai/
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
http://www.truthout.org/article/chalmers-johnson-intellectual-fallacies-war-terror
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2009/04/irony-1-billionaire-subsidized.html
http://www.truthout.org/article/naomi-klein-the-shock-doctrine
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/07/oversight/index.html
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/crispinmiller
http://www.borgenproject.org/Cost_of_Ending_Poverty.html
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/09/2389
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/04/happy-tax-day-richest-one-percent
http://mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=184
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=4773590301316220374&ei=WlHpSfriMYOOwgOMxJndAw&q=thunderbolts+of+the+gods&hl=en&dur=3
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle
http://bostonreview.net/BR22.5/okin.html
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_reboot?currentPage=all
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html
http://www.slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming/archives/001324.html
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/12/24/071224crat_atlarge_crain
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice/1
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html
http://www.truthout.org/article/bob-herbert-good-jobs-are-where-money-is
http://www.masternewmedia.org/bye-bye-e-learning-emergent-learning-paradigm-more-important-than-digital-delivery-tools/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jan/14/kenya.world
http://www.bhcinvestment.com/2008/02/george-soros-worst-market-crisis-in-60.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012401831.html
http://www.zeek.net/711jay/
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis-love.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.500-nanoplumbing-more-than-just-a-pipe-dream.html?full=true
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.500-nanoplumbing-more-than-just-a-pipe-dream.html?full=true
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/unapologetic.html
http://quantumphysics.tribe.net/thread/7c1b85e4-b6f8-4d41-9a51-d236144e27aa
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/05/building-gods.html
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2009/01/status-anxiety-alain-de-botton.html
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6278
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/10-sciences-alternative-to-an-intelligent-creator/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
http://www.truthout.org/121008R
http://www.reason.com/news/show/127549.html
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/28/10645
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/07/ghost-in-your-genes.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14520-us-boasts-of-laser-weapons-plausible-deniability.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
http://www.physorg.com/news137679868.html
http://www.physorg.com/news137863959.html
http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd
http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/beyond-belief-candles-in-the-dark/jonathan-haidt-1
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07232008.html
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=an+unreasonable+man&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1842185238948346433&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Iraq%27s+Missing+Billions&emb=0&aq=f#
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/08/power-of-nightmares.html
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/11/adam-curtis-living-dead.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/11/dangerous-knowledge.html
http://gizmodo.com/5077240/us-army-to-push-x+files-tech-development-invade-world-of-warcraft
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_1998_Dec/ai_53281666/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/usforeignpolicy.useconomicgrowth
http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2008-10-30_058_americas_slow_motion_fascist_coup.mp3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6078589535743610981&hl=en
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/opinion/14herbert.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/gandhi-pills-ps/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html
http://www.mindpowernews.com/5Psychological.htm
http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0151
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-economist-has-no-clothes
http://torturingdemocracy.org/
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810037
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/10/guns-germs-and-steel.html
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/packs-of-robots-will-hunt-down.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=geoengineering-how-to-cool-earth
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http://www.truthout.org/103108R
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http://www.integralscience.org/ConsciousQM.html
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Multiple_drafts_model
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3353407/Scientist-develops-programme-to-understand-alien-languages.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15030-atlas-of-hidden-water-may-avert-future-conflict.html
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http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/10/evidence_of_a_g.php
http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2008/11/shamans-of-amazon.html
http://www.hoboes.com/FireBlade/Editorials/Legalize/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/russell.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/06/artificialintelligenceai-engineering
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7740484.stm
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http://www.physorg.com/news148840268.html
http://www.physorg.com/news149345120.html
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http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2009/01/world-according-to-monsanto.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16477-global-warming-could-suffocate-the-sea.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.900-dark-flow-proof-of-another-universe.html?full=true&print=true
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/03/yoo/index.html
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110450.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101334645&sc=emaf
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5887
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2009/04/laughing-at-laffer.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/apr/02-are-smart-drugs-the-answer-to-bad-moods-and-bad-economy/article_view?b_start%3Aint=0&-C
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~slocks/feedback/amanyahu.html
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/11/719134/-Paine-Was-a-Socialistk
two books i appreciated and realized i want to share them more. i highly recommend the intro's available below.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xHy8oKa4RikC&printsec=frontcover&dq=polanyi#PPR16,M1
http://books.google.com/books?id=1OYghwiKjP0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=an+ordinary+persons+guide+to+empire#PPP1,M1
Since I was recommending so many things already I thought I'd add a few books to the list.
The Varieties of Scientific Experience - Carl Sagan
Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Taleb
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity - Roy Rappaport
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
The Feeling of What Happens - Antonio Damasio
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Paul Kennedy
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
Philosophy in the Flesh - Mark Johnson & George Lakoff
The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
Atheism: A Reader - edited by S.T. Joshi