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This site is an eclectic collection of texts, images and more, handpicked and clustered in random or not-so-random ways; aiming at assisting in this noble task: “Define yourself or be defined”.

According to Robert Anton Wilson, most of us function as badly wired robots due to our upbringing. Shall we want to reverse the damage, we have to be courageous enough to travel the path less traveled. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Eliot

Why woohoobits?

* woohoo: A word used when you are overly excited, hyper, having fun, or when something great happened to you

* bit: A small piece or quantity of something

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* bit: BInary digiT. The smallest unit of information on a computer/machine. A single bit can only hold one of 2 values, either 0 or 1; The least amount of information there is, i.e. yes or no, true or false, on or off.

So, let us have some serious fun with puns, machine-generated randomness, conceptual cut-ups and other beautiful stuff.

Heraclitus: Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play

id.ea: Be my guest, explore and play ;)

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watching the watcher

Roger Waters

, born 1943

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art works as objects vs as triggers for experiences

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.

_{Brian Eno, in “Miraculous Cures and the Canonization of Basquiat”}

Brian Eno

, born 1948

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the mind as a filing cabinet

A construct is a theoretical concept which we have created in our minds through our perception or understanding of a situation. Different people can look at the same situation (the same set of facts) and come up with completely different conclusions about the matter. As a result, they may hold differing viewpoints and opinions about the very same facts, and be utterly convinced that their viewpoints are valid! What our mind does when it perceives any situation is to distort and organize the information in a way that fits our existing beliefs and worldviews. It does so automatically by default, so much so that we often do not realize the underlying filing process that has taken place. Whenever we attempt to “file” or “categorize” something into broad categories for ease of retrieval, we invariably lose a certain level of detail while gaining an artificial “structure” that holds everything together.

_{Richard Dotts}

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on waiting for a miracle outside of you

If you were taught to believe there is a miracle outside of you, you were misled by your weakness to wish for gain without effort. (...)
If you continue to wait for that fake miracle to show up, it’s like thinking your mother will come to rescue you like she did when you were little.

_{Waysun Liao, born 1948}

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