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| HPI necessarily takes a symbiotic approach, being shaped by the questions it poses, such as; how can this two-way interface be realised? What assumptions are we making with regards to how we understand humans and plants? Do we need individual, specialised interfaces for each species, language or alkaloid, or are there more general approaches? How would they work? Where, or what is the point of contact between the humans and plants? How do we make the transition from machinic to organic? From boolean logic systems to systemic ecologic? What changes are required, and what further changes would occur in the plants, or humans using such interfaces? How does the nature of time, place and metabolic byproducts differ on each side of these interfaces? Are they reconcilable, or even mutually explicable? What can we learn from each other? How can we form a closer symbiosis and better understanding between the human and vegetable kingdoms once we open the gates between them? Communication, or pollination? | HPI necessarily takes a symbiotic approach, being shaped by the questions it poses, such as; how can this two-way interface be realised? What assumptions are we making with regards to how we understand humans and plants? Do we need individual, specialised interfaces for each species, language or alkaloid, or are there more general approaches? How would they work? Where, or what is the point of contact between the humans and plants? How do we make the transition from machinic to organic? From boolean logic systems to systemic ecologic? What changes are required, and what further changes would occur in the plants, or humans using such interfaces? How does the nature of time, place and metabolic byproducts differ on each side of these interfaces? Are they reconcilable, or even mutually explicable? What can we learn from each other? How can we form a closer symbiosis and better understanding between the human and vegetable kingdoms once we open the gates between them? Communication, or pollination? |
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| By suggesting "plants as organisational models" McKenna underlines several urgent human needs - to understand the value of diversity and collaboration over monocultures of competition; to approach problem-solving through whole systems thinking, rather than pure reductionism; to redesign industry and economics to adopt more cyclical, 'cradle to cradle' processes (McDonough, 2002). The rise of nanotechnology and a "global, atmosphere-based energy economy" can be completely in harmony with detoxifying the natural environment and preserving biodiversity, if we as a species are willing to take the risks of "reestablishing channels of direct communication with the planetary Other, the mind behind nature" (McKenna, 1992). | By suggesting "plants as organisational models" McKenna underlines several urgent human needs - to understand the value of diversity and collaboration over monocultures of competition; to approach problem-solving through whole systems thinking, rather than pure reductionism; to redesign industry and economics to adopt more cyclical, 'cradle to cradle' processes (McDonough, 2002). The rise of nanotechnology and a "global, atmosphere-based energy economy" can be completely in harmony with detoxifying the natural environment and preserving biodiversity, if we as a species are willing to take the risks of "reestablishing channels of direct communication with the planetary Other, the mind behind nature" (McKenna, 1992). |
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| While McKenna's preferred lenses are the plant based psychedelic tryptamines1 (uncannily similar in structure to some human neurotransmitters2), we suggest that a symbiotic HPI provides a technological analog and as such, is simultaneously more feasible, acceptable and perhaps insidious to a civilisation reinforced by global ICT. | While McKenna's preferred lenses are the plant based psychedelic tryptamines ((In particular; DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine), Psilocybin (4-Phosphoraloxy-N, N-DMT) and 5-Methoxy-DMT as contained in Virola or Ayahuasca preparations.)) (uncannily similar in structure to some human neurotransmitters((cf. Serotonin (5-Hydroxytryptamine) or Melatonin (5-Methoxy-N-acetyltryptamine).))), we suggest that a symbiotic HPI provides a technological analog and as such, is simultaneously more feasible, acceptable and perhaps insidious to a civilisation reinforced by global ICT. |
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| Digital technologies appear at the 'surface', an area of contact between the dissimilar realms of humans and machines. To operate on this surface, HCI reduces the range of human expression or action, in very particular ways (eg. typing words from a specified vocabulary, or agreeing only to point to one thing at a time), in exchange for enhancing or augmenting those well defined actions in reasonably specific, agreed upon ways. It extends the human operator in a given direction, while leaving other directions, or sensibilities to deteriorate. In the near future, bio- and eco-technology (particularly on nano-scales) suggest the possibility for us to interface, on different scales, with the living systems that surround us. | Digital technologies appear at the 'surface', an area of contact between the dissimilar realms of humans and machines. To operate on this surface, HCI reduces the range of human expression or action, in very particular ways (eg. typing words from a specified vocabulary, or agreeing only to point to one thing at a time), in exchange for enhancing or augmenting those well defined actions in reasonably specific, agreed upon ways. It extends the human operator in a given direction, while leaving other directions, or sensibilities to deteriorate. In the near future, bio- and eco-technology (particularly on nano-scales) suggest the possibility for us to interface, on different scales, with the living systems that surround us. |
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