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Have to reply Pegasus, 

Demon Seed, the reason why I won’t get an automated house/fridge/toaster/lights, Siri is bad enough, even when turned off, they still somehow end up back on. Read that bookwhen I was a teenager and thought this is a future reality.
Much like JG Ballard’s Vermillion Sands, another teenage read – where the Movie star/ it girls are in their early twenties and already have had so much plastic surgery they are stunningly hyper unreal – I remember thinking at the time why would a teenage/twenty year old ever do that? – 40 years later – Hello Insta Influencer.
Dune Books – we really should be paying attention.

Lyall Watson was a maverick scientific polymath, went to Uni at 15, degrees in animal behaviour, anthropology, chemistry, botany, marine biology, ecology and geology. All his books are fascinating, Supernature, Heaven’s breath etc. The Secret Life of Inanimate objects he wrote it in 1990, its a really interesting read and the last few chapters are related to computers – The Ghost in the machine.
Computers are silicon based – silica most commonly found in nature as quartz or in sand.
Silicon is the basic material used to make computer chips, electronic circuits, switching devices. We grow these enormous, near-perfect silicon crystals that we use in modern computers & phones & home automation systems.
Lyall poses the question – that have we, by creating these incredible machines, actually aiding the rise of the non-carbon intelligence that will eventually usurp us. The rise of Silica.

 In October 2020, coming out of the first lock-down, I went in person to one of the Sydney Jung Society lectures – Surveillance Capitalism and the Soul with Robert Dommett – Robert is president of the Sydney Jung Society and a systems analyst, researcher and developer of social profiling and AI.
“To understand the nature of Surveillance Capitalism he delved into its esoteric side, its archetypal roots. Robert’s investigation finds these roots deeply embedded in the rich nourishment of the ancient Egyptian religion, specifically in the Hall of Double Justice and on the Sun God’s Journey through the 12 hours of the night. Whilst historically interesting, the true significance of this finding is the insight it gives into the underlying processes at work.”
He also talked about the lack of ethics and how hard it is to bring it into AI development, even when its wanted, let alone when its not.
To be honest I cannot even begin to unravel most of what was said, for some reason when I go in person to these talks, I go into a form of trance, when my conscious mind gets pushed aside and some deeper consciousness comes up and absorbs it. Which is probably why I dreamt the craziest dreams including that I was the highest grade AI replicant so far and when I woke, I remember thinking that makes perfect sense! At the time I was also re-reading “Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?” Philip K Dick’s book that became Bladerunner.
But the biggest take out from the lecture was during the QA (30 people max) was when someone asked how concerned should we be about the future. And you could see by Robert’s face that he was struggling with how he was going to reply and his words were chilling – he said, “some nights I can’t sleep because no matter how hard I want to believe that what we are creating now is going to bring a better future, I can’t see it. I can’t spin it in anyway that doesn’t lead to despair and doom. I’d walk away if I could but at least I’m part of minority that is trying to bring some form of humanity & ethics into the equation.”
Holy F*@k.

Slightly veering but not really is this 6 part documentary – Can’t get you out of my Head – Adam Curtis. Plutonic as!
– love, power, money, corruption, the ghosts of empire, the history of China, opium and opioids, the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, and the history of Artificial Intelligence and surveillance.
Maybe because Pluto has been sitting on my ascendant for the last 3 years (My man!) this is probably the most relevant series that helps explain where we are & why! End of the Capricorn era.
All Adam Curtis’s films are amazing.
You can find him & his docs on the ThoughtMaybe website.

And one more small thing – my Cyberpunk-Post Apocalyptic, urban fantasy novel Slipstream which I wrote in 2015 and finally signed a publishing contract with a small independent publisher Feb 2020! Hello plague years – is being launched at Glebe Books Thursday 24th Nov (SagNew moon conj Venus & mercury/Jupiter direct & my Mars Return in the 5th house) 
One of the reasons I wrote this story was the question – What if the Internet /the web somehow organically became conscious?
How would something like that present?
Would we even be aware that it had happened?
If you’re in Sydney & want to come – go to the Gleebooks website – events/book launches – its free but you have to rsvp.