Personal Prophets: What happens when we outsource our instincts
George Strakhov, creative technologist and mystic analyst, who considers Astrud Gilberto, Robert Sapolsky, and Ludwig Wittgenstein part of his cultural DNA — asks what comes after agency, when instincts are outsourced and the sacred is pre-installed.
George Strakhov
Your own personal Jesus. Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares. Your own personal Jesus. Someone to hear your prayers, someone who's there. Feeling unknown and you're all alone, flesh and bone, by the telephone. Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer.
— Depeche Mode
It looks like we are about to wake up. Again.
Last time we woke up, the process took about 100,000 years. This time things will likely go faster. And further. But I can imagine the overall process being quite similar. Here's how it goes:
1. First, you decouple your thinking from your doing and start hallucinating.