From the 1993 "Kinetic Engineering" VHS tape. Audio replaced with CD version. Originally from the 1992 album "Man-Amplified".
Liner notes:
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"Everything is Sentient" Pythogoras. A "failure of logic" in a "paranoid democracy", ghost in the machine? Sentient Electronics? As technology develops also our dependence on that system increases, even fault tolerant computers are vulnerable to overload, no standards have as yet been developed, "software is not predictable". The nine hour breakdown of AT & T's long distance telephone network in New York dramatizes the vulnerability of complex computer systems everywhere and that chaos is evident is all systems. Chaos breaks across the line that separates scientific disciplines because it is a science of the global nature of systems. Science was heading for a crisis of increasing specialization, dramatically that specialization has reversed because of chaos. Chaos is turning back a trend in science towards reductionism, the analysis of systems in terms of their constituent parts, quarks, chromosomes, or neurons, chaos is looking at the whole. We have to look at chaos. Norbert Wiener, father of cybernetics, defined information as "essentially a negative entropy". In modern communication theory entropy is equated with noise which causes a waste of information. According to the second law of thermodynamics "the general direction of physical events is towards decrease in order and organization". Schrodinger was led to postulate the existence of an ego which ultimately "controls the motion of the atoms". Whatever the theory, something unseen and as yet unknown is at work behind the mechanism of the world and the universe. From the beginning of consciousness man has been all too aware of the existence of some mysterious force, and we can see this most obviously reflected in his spirituality.
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