Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
struggle eden stories
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
animal data states
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
children space debt
The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
mean ayahuasca people
Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.
spiritual cannabis sells
We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
innovation brain humans
The human brain is the god of technological innovation.
beautiful mind duty
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
technology reality thinking
The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.
luxury mind rising
In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.
ideas imagination levels
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
technology political acting
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
mean reflection self
Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.
issues baggage kind
For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.
decadence
What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.