...it's here.
Now go watch this again. Just for giggles and grins.
UPDATE: OK, let's backtrack. We have this technology that's straight out of the Sprawl Trilogy (or other, more unearthly sci-fi, perhaps), which "Neuromancy" refers to. It's called "Project Natal," meaning "Project Birth." The character here is Milo (who is actually an androgyne) and his/her dog Kate. First, let's do Milo. From wiki:
In Hebrew context, Milo is an abbreviation of the Hebrew name MI "who" KHA "like" IL "god", alias Michael meaning "who resembles God".OK, "the project of the birth of he/she who is like god." Fair enough. Back to wiki:
Milo and Kate - a game in development by Lionhead Studios in which the player interacts with a young child (Milo or Milly, selected by the user at the start) and his/her dog Kate, using items and passing him virtual items from real life actions. In an interview after the demonstration, Lionhead founder Peter Molyneux confirmed that the demo was in fact the long running Project Dimitri. In the demonstration available at E3 2009, only Milo was available to interact with.
OK, Kate is a no-brainer for longtime Secret Sun readers. Kate is the diminutive of Katherine, which around here we interpret as Ka-Hathor-Ein- "to have the Ka (spirit) of Hathor." And the dog is Sirius, reminding us of the conjunctions between Hathor and Isis.
But who is the he/she that is like God? Adam Kadmon.
We find that Milo grew out of another project:
The Dimitri Project was the codename for a video game by Lionhead Studios that for many years had an unknown status, before surfacing in 2009 as the technology demo "Milo" for Microsoft's Project Natal.The Dimitri Project! And where does that name come from?
Demeter.
And created by Lionhead Studios- all of you Jungians out there just spit your second cup of coffee at the screen. Who is the Lionhead?
Aion, companion of Mithras, brother of Harpocrates.
So, the birth of Milo/Milly who is like god and whose companion is Hathor-Isis, who grew out of Project Demeter who was created by Aion. These are not random bits culled from here and there in mythology, we're hitting the core archetypes here- the very apex of the Mystery pantheon.
Ancient mythology meets futuristic- almost alien- science, again. You can't keep them separated anymore these days, can you?
Now go look at that video again and feel the Secret Sun on your face.
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I hadn't seen Natal in action until now. That looks far creepier than I expected.
It'll be interesting to see what they do with it though, I read it was the main attraction at E3 this year...
Yeah I was thinking damn, their gonna combine that with this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Andre did a post on it last week.
Natal means birth, that´s why we Catholics celebrate the Festivity of Nativity, or Christmas...
At the beginning of Matrix, Neo has a book on his desk: Simulacra and Simulations, by french phylosopher Jean Braudillard, maybe we should take a look at it Chris...
Besides any creepy feeling, this development will help many lonely/shy people everywhere, specially old people, and even I guess to help many with discapacities to do many things easier, if we can connect Millo with the net and the fridge, and the phone and the electric door...
And, I was thinking on the date Natal or whatever new name it will have will be released, probably it will be on 2010...
Chris, as Jung and Vallée have said, maybe the ETs are us... Maybe as the Lost-Star Trek (JJ Abrams seems to be a postmodern profet right now) the space time continuum is not so linear after all... Maybe 2010 will be the year we made Contact? But this contact will be not with Them after all, maybe with Us...
Great update!
Lionhead studios also made a game called Black and White where you play God.
Just thought I might leave you with this as it is what I first thought of when I saw the video.
From Revelation 13:
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
So, what is happening in the video is a full body scan which the computer can interpret and act/react accordingly.
Pretty weird... neat... spooky.
that's cool, I see the transhumanist intention behind the avatar development between Wii and Xbox. I assume this is a mystery cult acquiring technology from the extraterrestrails after reading, but wonder why technology is so unreliable, I'm on my third xbox and it still doesn't work.
James - They sell things to us that are made to break so that we buy more. My Super Nintendo still works after 17 years but my PS1 broke after 4 years. Maybe it's just a japan>USA manufacturing thing.
More info on "Black and White" here. Not sure why they repeat the first paragraph... I used to play that game a lot actually, my creature was a giant cow.
Setting aside analysis of the synchromysti-winks of this project, I couldn't help but wonder at the global creative/ collaborative possibilities during the scene where the 'paper' drawing was 'passed' over from the 'real' world to the 'virtual. I'm not even talking about gaming use; consider this tech utilized in conjunction with an e-paper (which is probably only 3-4 years away from being commercially feasible) interface. You could have near-seamless interaction between development teams or individuals (or their avatars). Mind boggling...
I feel it. ;-)
This will have me rummaging around now for my copy of God in the Machine. Checked out the first page on amazon.com,just to refresh my memory, because the title of this book came to my mind immediately after seeing this vid, and it's interesting that Anne Foerst began Chapter 1 with Psalm 139:
O GOD, you have searched me and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, oh GOD.
Seems that the user can be "known", "recognized" and "understood" by Milo, as the sales guy says? Didn't he say Milo would understand my voices? my emotions? be fascinated with my life? Sounds like a song we sang in Sunday School about Jesus walking and talking with me and telling me I was his own! I don't know what it means, but this strikes me as creepy.
Deus ex Machina indeed. The hair is standing up on the back of my neck.
Pax. Kimberly
Chris,
When you wrote here: "But who is the he/she that is like God?" I went back to your post with the drawing of the Rebis and I realized that I had found that image about four years ago when I was researching my old J-W indoctrination. But I discovered it when I searched the Tetragrammaton???
I was actually looking for representations of God and was shocked to see the Rebis as an image for the Tetragrammaton. I was bewildered but I suppose this post helps me understand the androgyny of God better...that is according to these religious or cult traditions.
But please tell me more about what the Rebis has to do with the Tetragrammaton (name of God) that is the basis of J-W and other modern religions. -Seems this is yet another piece in the puzzle to that deeply entrenched religious philosophy I still can't shake!
Thanks Chris
PS...per my comment on your June 8 post, be sure to check out NatGeo here:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/secrets-of-the-star-disc-4209/Overview
Your implications a very sharp here Chris.
WV in green 'netrat'
Wow, thanks for the heads up Chris!! I have missed out on much of the virtual reality stuff, am betting that Ray Kurzweil covered this at his website.
Creepy indeed, but will mesmerize many, like the Sims 3 that came out, am I mistaken or is the little Sims 3 logo a 3d version of a Tetragrammaton? Hmmm.
The symbolisms are there, so are the signs, obviously this is a "ego genesis" convoluted glimpse at the future unless change comes.
It's just the evolution of the technology, it doesn't allow us to evolve in my humble opinion. So will interaction with rendered A.I. be replacing real human interaction?
Many will think it's neat, others will love it, personally I call it another distraction. So what happened to the urgent need of the Planet dying and Global Warming killing us all off? You'd think all scientific minds would all be working together if it was so dire. In closing, does that mean the Earth is not in grave peril? Is colonization of Mars going to take place?
My "now thats crazy talk" hypothesis after being hip deep in Eugenics and Technology distractions--- elite's have bases on the moon, distract the hell out of us while they can, Doomsday Seed vault is in place, when the next plague is released, they party on the moon while the rest of us try to survive...UNLESS...
Be well my man!
you'll get a kick out of this WV is DOGYM!
Chris, thanks as always.
I can't wait to go down to Best Buy and pick up my very own androgynous alien-contact device.
But until then, I'll concentrate on learning how to use the one in my brain.
;)
Milo = BORING!
I'd play some sports games tho, and a few others, but only on the playstation 3.
This blog is a treasure trove of research
Looks like Tampax is getting on the androgyne tip...
http://zack16.com/
Emo boy grows a vagina, empathizes with girls, uses tampax.
Great blog, my only issue with it is that the Marvel comics character Doctor Faustus is clearly NOT based on Carl Jung... but on CIA mind control specialist and sexual pervert William "Wild Bill" Bryant. Like Faustus, Bryant was grossly overweight, a mind controller, and a byzantine geopolitical player. And extremely boastful.
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