|
NEW FILM RELEASE! Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind (2023 | Remastered | TV-PG), a futurist's take on the ultimate nature of reality and consciousness, and how to reverse-engineer our thinking in order to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The film is based on The Syntellect Hypothesiis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution (2020, eBook, paperback/hardcover, audiobook) and The Cybernetic Theory of Mind (2022. eBook series) by Alex M. Vikoulov. Watch the documentary in its entirety on our YouTube channel and subscribe!
|
|
Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind, Trailer: This 40-minute documentary by Alex Vikoulov can be viewed on a variety of networks, such as TUBI (free w/ ads):
https://tubitv.com/movies/613341/consciousness-evolution-of-the-mind as well as on our own YouTube Channel. The documentary is based on The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution (2020) and The Cybernetic Theory of Mind (2022) by Alex M. Vikoulov. For the ultimate viewing experience, do some reading prior to watching the film! |
|
Omega Singularity: Universal Mind & The Fractal Multiverse: Once we extrapolate computational capabilities of civilization past our own looming “Simulation Singularity” by perhaps hundreds of orders of magnitude, we arrive in the end at only one necessary substance constituting all of reality -- consciousness, the very subjective experience with which we all are most familiar. Nothing else would ultimately need to exist but the higher mind as the source of ultrarealistic but simulated universes like our own. |
|
The Cybernetic Singularity: The Syntellect Emergence: Humans are evolving away from biological systems toward more technological ones. Beyond genetic engineering, many forms of the coming neurotechnologies will allow us to modify our brains, and consequently our mental faculties, by merging with technology and eventually becoming digital minds practically indistinguishable from our future AI creations. Each of us is a network intelligence in the human form. By the end of the decades-long process of transition, we are most likely to become substrate-independent minds, sometimes referred to as “SIMs,” “cyberhumans” or “infomorphs.”
|
|
Live Q&A with Futurist Alex Vikoulov: On this recent Metaverse News Network night, futurist Alex Vikoulov, author of The Syntellect Hypothesis, is interviewed by the host Richard Mourant and co-host Shauna Lee Lange. Topics include the prospects of technological acceleration, Metaverse development and immersive computing, transcendence and cybernetic immortality, neurotechnologies and mind uploading, outer and inner space exploration, Global Mind and phase transition of humanity, physics of time and information, consciousness, evolutionary cybernetics, Chrysalis conjecture and Transcension hypothesis, Artificial General Intelligence and cyberhumanity, transhumanism and singularity, Fermi Paradox, Omega Point cosmology, Cybernetic Theory of Mind, and more.
|
|
Ontological Holism: The Ultimate Reality of Self-Simulating Universe: Self-causation of reality is perhaps best understood in relation to the existence of your own mind. Self-simulated reality transpires as self-evident when you relate to the notion that a phenomenal mind, which is a web of patterns, conceives a certain novel pattern and simultaneously perceives it. We can comprehend the imminent natural God of Spinoza, or Absolute Consciousness, a bit better by applying a scientific tool of extrapolation to the meta-systemic phenomenon of radical emergence and treating consciousness as a primary ontological mover, the Source if you will, not a by-product of material interactions. |
|
Ecstadelic Media Group releases a new non-fiction audiobook The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution by Alex M. Vikoulov in addition to eBook and paperback released earlier this year. (Video Press Release, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 18, 2020 07.00 AM PST) Instant bestseller and acclaimed as “The Book of the Year” by futurists and academics alike when the first edition was published in 2019, Ecstadelic Media Group now produced and released the 2020 expanded edition as audiobook in addition to eBook and paperback released earlier this year. This audiobook now appears as #1 New Release in Amazon charts in Cybernetics, Physics, and Computer Science. |
|
What is information? Everything is Code. One of the most astonishing revelations might be that information equals reality. In other words, the basis for our material reality is actually immaterial information. Pattern and flow of information is what defines our experiential reality. In this short 3-min. video, futurist, evolutionary cyberneticist and philosopher of mind Alex Vikoulov blasts us with his explanation of the computational nature of our holographic reality. |
|
The Syntellect Emergence: Phase Transition of Humanity: This 5-min. book trailer for The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution by Alex M. Vikoulov introduces the notion of forthcoming evolutionary leap from Homo sapiens to Holo syntellectus which will be marked by the “Intelligence Supernova” in our "human" universe. Want to find out more? Read overview, here. |
|
TECHNOCULTURE: The Rise of Man, The Cybernetic Theory of Mind: Is the meaning of life the answers of which we seek or is it merely seeking answers which give us meaning? We have this epigenetic trait of wonder in us – an innate desire to wander out into the uncharted territory – in order to explore new possibilities. Whether it’s taming fire to illuminate the dark night or hurling our space-faring instruments to help us look into the unknown interstellar expanse, our very circumstance today is solely due to our curiosity. Why are humans so damn curious? Because we find discovery so incredibly pleasurable. |
|
THEOGENESIS: Transdimensional Propagation & Universal Expansion, The Cybernetic Theory of Mind: Whereas the level of our posthuman syntelligence may be trillions upon trillions of times more powerful than it is today, nothing will prevent it to expand both in outer space and inner space. Isn’t it the nature of intelligence to acquire the ultimate knowledge - everything that can be known? A number of prominent physicists argue that the Technological Singularity is inevitable and the destiny of our Syntellect is to live forever, expand universally and finally reach the networked mind of universal proportions, living conscious universal superbeing. |
|
Short 2-min. intro to a recent NeoHuman podcast: Alex Vikoulov, author of The Syntellect Hypothesis, is interviewed by NeoHuman podcaster Agah Bahari. Topics include evolutionary cybernetics, computational physics, consciousness, the simulation theory, the transcension hypothesis, the Global mind, AGI, VR, AR, psychedelics, technological singularities, transhumanism, Fermi Paradox, Digital Physics, objective reality, philosophy of mind, the extended mind hypothesis, absolute idealism, physics of time, the Omega Point cosmology, mind-uploading, synthetic telepathy, and more. Watch the full interview here. |
|
D-Theory of Time: Digital Presentism: "When we gaze up into a starry night sky, we don’t see other stars and galaxies, what we see is our story, unfolding right before our very eyes from the dimensional manifold. The reason we have the impression the Universe is expanding and actually accelerating in its expansion is because our 3D 'movie' is getting more and more complex with passing time, and its information content grows with time as well...” |
|
The Omega Point Cosmology: “What is the Omega Point? One may speculate by defining it as Absolute Consciousness, the source of omnidimensional matrix, i.e., the holographic projector of all possible observer timelines, including other permutational modalities such as possible anti-timelines in our quantum multiverse, as well as possible modalities in even larger inflationary multiverse – all pasts, presents and futures, and other yet inconceivable to us “pattern crawlings” exist as potentiality until experienced. In brief, it is the source of everything...” |
|
Russian-American futurist Alex M. Vikoulov presents his published works in a talk titled CYBERNETIC THEORY: THE CODE OF REALITY & OUR FUTURE AS CYBERGODS at the Rotary Club, The Grand Autograph Hotel, Novosibirsk, Russia, on July 19, 2022. The main 45-minute slide presentation is followed by a 15-minute Q&A session. This presentation is in Russian with slides and subtitles in English.
*КИБЕРНЕТИЧЕСКАЯ ТЕОРИЯ: КОД РЕАЛЬНОСТИ И ЛЮДИ-БОГИ БУДУЩЕГО | Обзор pабот футуролога Александра Михайловича Викулова | Ротари Клуб, Гранд Автограф Отель, Новосибирск, Россия, 19 Июля 2022 |
|
Audiobook The Syntellect Hypothesis by Alex M. Vikoulov, Sample: Listen to this 10-min. Prologue from a newly-released audibook -- The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution by Alex M. Vikoulov. Release date: August 12, 2020; Narrated by Forrest Hansen; Foreword by Antonin Tuynman, PhD; Total Length: 16 hours, 31 mins. Available now on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. |
|
Lucid Dream of Reality: "Your life is a dream. It’s a dream of reality. When I woke up one morning, I got poetically epiphanized: To us, our dreams at night feel 'oh-so-real' when inside them but they are what they are – dreams against the backdrop of daily reality. Our daily reality is like nightly dreams against the backdrop of the larger reality. This is something we all know deep down to be true. This purposeful, computational process is centered around one objective, one guiding principle only, one 'raison d’être' – to produce a meaningful experience in the context of 'embodied' mind." |
|
Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality: Video Press Release San Francisco, CA, USA, November 25, 2019 7.00 AM PST Ecstadelic Media Group releases a new non-fiction book Theology of Digital Physics. Written by Alex M. Vikoulov; Foreword by Antonin Tuynman PhD; Format: Kindle eBook. One of the biggest suprises in Theology, Metaphysics and Cybernetics this year, this new book is a deep philosophical treatise and popularization of Digital Physics as one of the leading contenders for the Quantum Gravity theory, a "Theory of Everything" that would unify relativistic and quantum physics. |
|
Barnes & Noble Press releases a new non-fiction book The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution by Alex M. Vikoulov as Hardcover (Video Press Release, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 22, 2019 11.00 AM PST) Named “The Book of the Year” by futurists and academics alike, #1 Hot New Release in Amazon charts in Cybernetics, Physics of Time, Phenomenology, and Phenomenological Philosophy, the book has now been released by Barnes & Noble Press as hardcover in addition to ebook and paperback released earlier this year. |
|
NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology: We now know that all extant living creatures derive from a single common ancestor, called the 'Last Universal Common Ancestor' (LUCA). It’s hard to think of a more unifying view of life. All living things are linked to a single-celled creature, the deepest root to the complex-branching tree of life. If we could play the movie of life backward, we would find this microscopic primogenitor at the starting point of biological evolution, the sole actor in what would become a very dramatic story, lasting some 3.5 billion years leading to us. |
|
Video Clip from The Great Reset 2020: With advanced quantum computational systems in place, we could have computed the COVID-19 vaccine within hours, if not minutes, of its discovery. Perhaps, any kind of life-threatening virus, since it is nothing more than a piece of code, will be completely preventable with advances in quantum computing, bioinformatics and computational biology. The question is, then, if we could eventually shield ourselves against the common viral micro-threat, what would a macro-threat of unknown nature mean for human-machine civilization? We might soon need to decode another message from the transcendent realm edging us ever closer to the Cybernetic Singularity of some sort. |
|
The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence: Video Press Release San Francisco, CA, USA, September 3, 2019 11.00 AM PST Ecstadelic Media Group releases a new non-fiction book The Intelligence Supernova. Written by Alex M. Vikoulov; Foreword by Antonin Tuynman PhD; Format: Kindle eBook. Instant Bestseller on Amazon, this new book is a collection of remarkable essays on our near future with AI, cybernetics, transhumanism, the Simulation Hypothesis, the Technological Singularity, and the emergence of the Global Mind. |
|
Alex Vikoulov presents The Ouroboros Code: Reality's Digital Alchemy Self-Simulation Bridging Science and Spirituality - Written by philosopher Dr. Antonin Tuynman; Foreword by Alex M. Vikoulov; Publisher: Ecstadelic Media Group; Release Date: October 11, 2019. This masterpiece of Digital Philosophy has 27 chapters and divided into 4 parts: Knowledge, Sentience, Intelligence and Eschaton. The alchemical symbol of Ouroboros, this tail-biting dragon-snake, should stand for 'Phenomenal Consciousness'. It's closely related to Ying/Yang as something apparently dualistic but deeply monistic. Not to be missed by spiritual scientists and rational spiritualists! |
|
More Than An Algorithm: Video Press Release San Francisco, CA, USA, July 3, 2019 11.00 AM PST Ecstadelic Media Group releases a new non-fiction book More Than An Algorithm by Antonin Tuynman PhD as a Kindle eBook :: In this book, the author invites you to the musings of master algorithms, brain fractals and Chinese rooms. The book, aimed at science-savvy readers, makes you question the validity of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, tries to reconcile the paradoxes of idealistic panpsychism and shows you the parallels between the codes of evolution and the routines of the human mind. |
|
The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics - Instant Bestseller on Amazon | Video Press Release, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22, 2019 11.00 AM PST Ecstadelic Media Group releases a new non-fiction book The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics by Alex M. Vikoulov, Antonin Tuynman PhD as a Kindle ebook :: In this book two of the series, the author addresses probably the most interesting questions in science and philosophy: What is the deeper nature of TIME? Is Time fundamental or emergent? What does it take to build a time machine and travel to the past? |
|
Ecstadelic Media Group releases a new non-fiction book The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and The Omega Point Cosmology by Alex M. Vikoulov as a Kindle ebook (Video Press Release, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 22, 2019 01.00 PM PST) #1 Hot New Release in Amazon charts in Cosmology and Evolution, the book starts with a story that happened almost exactly 400 years ago to date that has had a tremendous "butterfly" effect on us modern humans... |
|
The Syntellect Hypothesis: Gaia 2.0 - A new extension to the famous Gaia Theory. We may finally have an extension to the original Gaia hypothesis. We humans could be instrumental to bringing about a massive “upgrade” of the planetary operating system to version Gaia 2.0. The ‘Syntellect’ (Greek syn, with, together + intellect) can be defined as the unified mind of civilization that integrates all individual natural and artificial minds through the mediation and accumulative effects of information networks. |
|
Will We Transcend The Temporal Dimension? The mathematical description of time in relativistic physics as a fourth spatial dimension implies that the more complex conscious entities like us humans, who perceive temporality, are perhaps in the process of emerging into the more advanced consciousness of ever more expansive degrees of dimensionality. |
|
The Physics of Time: What is TIME?: "If classical physics alone distorts our preconceptions of time, then you shouldn't doubt there is certainly much more to TIME than our linear one-directional experience. To us, humans, to be alive is to perceive the flow of time. Our perception of Time is linear – we remember the past, we live in the present, and we look forward to the future. Our spatio-temporal reality and consciousness are two sides of the same coin made of information. |
|
Ecstadelics: Digital Drugs of the Future: "...we’ll see a corresponding shift away from the traditional neuropharmacological inducers towards IT-based esctadelics. The term ‘ecstadelics’ includes a broad variety of futuristic psychedelic technologies, or simply “tools of ecstasy,” such as ultra-realistic artificially created realities, essentially aimed to recreate a desired psychedelic effect of LSD or DMT, or any other ecstatic state, and variations thereof yet to be discovered. Needless to say, that this type of 'digital drugs' will be much more controllable, quantifiable and duplicable." |
|
Extended book trailer for The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution by Alex M. Vikoulov, narrated by the author. |
|
Some book concepts in the spotlight, shortened from the full-length presentation "Overview of My Work: From Digital Philosophy to the Syntellect Emergence" w/Alex Vikoulov (7 mins.). Watch the full-length presentation here. |
|
"AI, Direct Conduit to Higher Self" w/Alex Vikoulov |
|
"Humanity in 2029: A Race of the Immortals" w/Alex Vikoulov |
|
Watch a 10-min. short from "Overview of My Work: From Digital Philosophy to the Syntellect Emergence" |
|
Consciousness: Our Subjective Experience. "Feeling and thinking are ways we process information, but our emotional sensations are normally faster than a conscious thought. Your consciousness is optimized meta-algorithmic information-processing. Nothing is real for us until perceived…" |
|
Mind Uploading and Digital Immortality. By 2040, mind-uploading may become a norm and a fact of life with a “critical mass” of uploads and digital immortality. Akin to evolution of life from unicellularity to multicellularity, we call this theoretical view on the impending meta-system transition – uploading humanity, consequently morphing into one singular Global Mind and unlocking a new, grander reality – the Syntellect Hypothesis. |
|
The Chrysalis Conjecture: Solution to the Fermi Paradox? It appears that the physics of information holds the key to the solution of the Fermi Paradox - indications are that we most likely live in a “Syntellect Chrysalis” (or our “second womb”) instead of a “cosmic jungle.” Within the next few decades, we’ll transcend our biology by leaving today’s organic Chrysalis behind, by leaving our second womb, by leaving our cradle, if speaking in tropes. This particular version of "human universe" is what we "see" from within our dimensional cocoon, it's a construct of our minds but by no means represents objective reality "out there" including our most advanced models such as M-theory that are only approximations at best.
|
|
Love: The Glue That Holds the Universe Together. Love contrasts with fear, light with dark, black implies white, self implies other, suffering implies ecstasy, death implies life. We can devise and apprehend something only in terms of what it is not. This is the cosmic binary code: Yin/Yang, True/False, Infinite/Finite, Masculine/Feminine, Theta/Omega, On, Off, Yes,No... There are really only two opposing forces at play: love as universal integrating force and fear as universal disintegrating force... |
|
Patterns: As Above So Below. In Nature, we find patterns, designs and structures from the most minuscule particles, to expressions of life discernible by human eyes, to the greater cosmos. These inevitably follow geometrical archetypes, platonic solids, some call it sacred geometry, which reveal to us the essence of each form and its vibrational resonances. They are also symbolic of the underlying holistic principle of inseparability of the part and the whole. |