John C. Lilly dies.
October 3, 2001 2:33 PM Subscribe
John C. Lilly dies. Inventor of the isolation tank and pioneer of dolphin/human communications and all around cool counterculture guy. He will be missed. [Lilly homepage]
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Very sad. I once met John when I was about 14 or 15. A brilliant but nutty scientist, just like you'd expect. Got to meet his dolphins and seals. He really was ahead of his time. Probably still is.
sigh
posted by billder at 4:21 PM on October 3, 2001
sigh
posted by billder at 4:21 PM on October 3, 2001
Programming and MetaProgramming the Human Biocomputer was an important book for me when I was a teenager.
Me too, aflakete. Great book. John Lilly's vision scanned horizons that most of us have only begun to imagine.
billder, did you get the chance to have a conversation with one of the dolphins?
posted by bragadocchio at 5:19 PM on October 3, 2001
Me too, aflakete. Great book. John Lilly's vision scanned horizons that most of us have only begun to imagine.
billder, did you get the chance to have a conversation with one of the dolphins?
posted by bragadocchio at 5:19 PM on October 3, 2001
"The Scientist" was the diary of a Ketamine-crazed crackpot; yet, I think it may turn out to be the truth about us.
We may be evolving into a silicon-based lifeform. Lilly thought he was in touch with distant civilizations that had made the transition from messy carbon/water-based lifeforms to clean clear silicon-based lifeforms.
The signs are all over. He may have been right. May he rest in death.
posted by kozad at 8:09 PM on October 3, 2001
We may be evolving into a silicon-based lifeform. Lilly thought he was in touch with distant civilizations that had made the transition from messy carbon/water-based lifeforms to clean clear silicon-based lifeforms.
The signs are all over. He may have been right. May he rest in death.
posted by kozad at 8:09 PM on October 3, 2001
"The Scientist" was the diary of a Ketamine-crazed crackpot; yet, I think it may turn out to be the truth about us.
We may be evolving into a silicon-based lifeform. Lilly thought he was in touch with distant civilizations that had made the transition from messy carbon/water-based lifeforms to clean clear silicon-based lifeforms.
The signs are all over. He may have been right. May he rest in death.
posted by kozad at 8:10 PM on October 3, 2001
We may be evolving into a silicon-based lifeform. Lilly thought he was in touch with distant civilizations that had made the transition from messy carbon/water-based lifeforms to clean clear silicon-based lifeforms.
The signs are all over. He may have been right. May he rest in death.
posted by kozad at 8:10 PM on October 3, 2001
did you get the chance to have a conversation with one of the dolphins?
they said "so long and thanks for all the fish"
posted by billder at 9:08 PM on October 3, 2001
they said "so long and thanks for all the fish"
posted by billder at 9:08 PM on October 3, 2001
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