Simulation: A painter draws a horse that is so real that it cannot be distinguished from a hourse

Arguments:

• During the media “explosion of events”, any event has a “contra-positive”
• Every event is staged (eg. war is reduced to TikTok, Instagram, or news)
• The line between marketing, news and truth is impossible to discern (eg. Sylvester Stallone is in the hall of fame of boxing)
• Reality becomes the hyper-real
• The signs of disaster are pictures to be consumed
• The media create copies: non-events that are easily digested
• We become complicit in disinformation campaigns, we enjoy deception
• We dictate the screen, are the editor, and subscriber
• If we search long enough we will believe in any event as truth

Notes

• Did you lose contact with reality?
• Isn’t writing already a virtual reality?
• Everything conceals nothing

Introduction from “Then and Now“

• What is the Real?
• Abstracts for exchange
• “The Shift”
• The recycling of lost ideas (Jogging instead of walking)

AI – Video (from Digital Engine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgFtjfO_7Q

• Can generate realistic Images of humans
• GoogleAI can understand and explain jokes now (better than GPT-3)
• OpenAI can create images from text descriptions
• Can change images according to your description
• AI is better than human artists creating art in seconds
• AI creating comics
• AI can bring photos to life
• can take photos and create maps from it

Video talks more about: machine advancements, automation, robotaxis, are we approaching “the age of abundance”

“the future is here, it is not equally distributed”

A Comparison between Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek – Next Generation

Pike (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

Bible-Man (basically Jesus was already a super hero fantasy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_OGgx5Zr3s

Badiou – Being and Event, Documentary and Reading

1. Sleep (8 hours)
2. Low Fat, Low Sugar
3. Sport
4. Friendship/Family
5. Learning
6. Work
7. Love
8. Meditation
9. Art
10. Freedom

1. Body
   1. Nutrition
   2. Sport
   3. Surrounding
2. Soul
   1. Meditation
   2. Friendship
   3. God
3. Spirit
   1. Teaching
   2. Finances
   3. Society

• Celebrities are nowadays more accessible, thus more human
• The status of being a star is levelled?

• Social Media celebrates the normal people
  People who have no skills and accidentally became famous
  Everyone could do it
• See Colin and Samir

Why does the sentence have to be false?

Putnam’s Argument

• Can we say: “Brains in a Vat”?
• The idea causes a contradiction: We can only be brains in the vat within in the current simulation
• Thus, the sentence does not represent reality but represents whatever is in the simulation
• It follows that we are not brains in a vat

Note

Does from that follow that we are not exposed to another form of exposure?

Brain in a Vat Argument, The

Durtley Comment: “After air conditioning, before killer robots. Best time to be alive.”

• Boring Talk: Key-Learning: How can an interesting thought be so boring?
• Historical period of ‘Still Human’
• ‘What have been the Chances that we are us?’

RedLetterMedia – best movie critical talk

Total Recall

Independence Day

• Cheesy surprise moment: “[On the phone shocked] ‘say that again'”
• Jeff Goldblum reminds everyone to recycle
• Dumb chess metaphor: “positioning their pieces until their ready … “CHECKMATE”
• Alians “use our sattelites” because they cannot talk to each other

04.01.22

Hystamin-Intolerance (Oranges) – Ein Körper, der juckt. Did I pick the wrong soul-suit? Nature producing failed corpses? Its not entirely a monday-model, but I would prefer Apple over Huawei

Ein Platz in der Welt

05.04.22

• I broke my scheme buying high selling low.
• Beauty beats all privileges
• The UN is useless with its safety counsel
• The victims of Russias crime are shocking, but the more it is that Russians in their majority don’t believe it

Motivation: It seems the answer is very simple

Wikipedia defines: the Internet as “a global system … of interconnected computer networks” carrying “a vast range of information resources and services”, we have to attribute here that it also invests in a large amount of misinformation and leads to eroding institutions, the machine exploits information, attention by its allgorythmic structure, one person inventing copy paste, the “down swipe, scrolling and the person who invented the like button”

The internet is a connection of human actions. Without humans who use the internet, the internet disappears. Disregarding its Hardware it is filled with human spirit. It is the form of a specific sort of human material.

Thesis: The Internet improves our understanding of the world

Explanation: The internet makes deeper analysis of information quickly available.

Example: Especially Youtube gives individual arguments a platform. An Analysis of John Williams Jurassic Park Theme

Counter-Argument:

1. At the same time the internet produces more noise that needs good filtering mechanisms.
2. A lot of analysis are just superficial, real research still does not appear.