The Myths That Make Us Shimmer Series Part 2
Jun 21, 2024
The podcast discusses the Shimmer Effect and its impact on individuals, offering an assessment to understand its effects. It also introduces the Dharma Artist Collective, a community aimed at enhancing focus and artistic skills. The episode explores the symbolic meaning of the Shimmer and techniques for navigating it, emphasizing the importance of mindfulness and awareness in the digital world.
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Shimmer As Myth For The Digital World
- The Shimmer is a myth for the digital world and its emerging complex systems like AI and blockchain.
- Erick Godsey maps the movie Annihilation's Shimmer to the collective unconscious where attention enters a distinct area of effect.
Five Effects Of The Shimmer
- The Shimmer has five effects including expanding area, mental illness risk, retrograde amnesia, and refraction of ideas.
- Godsey links refraction to rapid mutation and cross-pollination of ideas and identities inside the digital substrate.
Memes As The Shimmer's Genes
- The atomic unit of culture in the shimmer is the meme, which now explodes in quantity and mutation compared with pre-digital history.
- Godsey cites Dawkins' meme concept and claims more meaningful signal has been generated since the internet's birth than prior recorded history.