Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Cyberdelic Shift is...

The bringing of light to the systems of communication and control which connect our world. The end goal of the Cyberdelic Shift is that of complete transparency, honesty, and truth throughout all of the networks upon which our world is built.

Roots:

-Psychedelic (1956)
  • "...of drugs, suggested by H. Osmond in a letter to Aldous Huxley and used by Osmond in a scientific paper published the next year; from Gk. psykhe- 'mind' + deloun 'make visible, reveal,' from delos 'visible, clear.' " (Online Etymology Dictionary 02-21-2010)
-Cybernetic (1948)
  • "Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems [...and...] is closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to physical and social (that is, language-based) systems.

    Cybernetics is preeminent when the system under scrutiny is involved in a closed signal loop, where action by the system in an environment causes some change in the environment and that change is manifest to the system via information, or feedback, that causes the system to adapt to new conditions: the system changes its behavior. This "circular causal" relationship is necessary and sufficient for a cybernetic perspective.

    Contemporary cybernetics began as an interdisciplinary study connecting the fields of control systems, electrical network theory, mechanical engineering, logic modeling, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and psychology in the 1940s, often attributed to the Macy Conferences." (Wikipedia 02-21-2010)

  • "...coined by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) from Gk. kybernetes 'steersman,' perhaps based on 1830s Fr. cybernétique 'the art of governing.' " (Online Etymology Dictionary 02-21-2010)